Caravaggio
It's incredible how little is known about Caravaggio. Despite his great fame today, who have come during the 1900s, the Master was unknown after his death for several hundred years. There are almost no good sources concerning the artist. I've conducted thorough research into the matter and talked with what I consider experts in the field and still I haven´t found anything good. There are no sketches, it´s said that he made none, no letters, no inventory of his library or his residence. There are only the statements of others, who were often his critics. There is only one, just one, statement from him in which he speaks about another painter, a statement which in itself is pretty bland. If it weren´t for his art, it would be as if he never existed. Concerning Fillide Melandroni I´m afraid it´s the same ordeal, she was a courtesan in Rome at the same time, and it´s well-known that she was the model for many of his paintings. Some believe that they were lovers, others bitter enemies in the end, that she was the cause of his terrible crime.
The Theatre
I've dedicated a considerable amount of time concerning the Theatre. A colleague from my alma mater was hooked on it. I emailed him the other day and while I waited for his response, I searched for information on the Theatre. Among the junk, I found several lists including one that some obscure company had compiled out of votes on their website. Had never heard of them, but the survey consisted of several hundred thousand votes:
https://www.ancientlosttreasures.com
The Theatre ranked within the top ten with other sought after temples and treasures like the Dracula treasure, the Antwerp robbery, the Amber room, the Ark of the Covenant and the Pharaoh Ramses II's treasure.
Here is a picture of how the Internet company believes that the entrance to the Theatre looks like:
Corpus Thoth Fraternitatis
Indeed, there is a giant codex called Corpus Thoth Fraternitatis that is said to contain the pilgrim´s path to the Theatre, but it's missing.
For long I mistook the Corpus Thoth Fraternitatis with the Corpus Hermeticum. Hermeticum is from the mountain monastery in Macedonia and is some sort of fragmented collection of Thoth´s holy book that is supposed to be in the Theatre while Corpus Thoth Fraternitatis is a codex that the Brothers in Thoth´s Brotherhood wrote, who were patrons and protectors of the Theatre. The Brother´s corpus is said to contain the path to the Theatre, a kind of pilgrim´s path that their brothers walked to get to the Theatre. The starting point of this pilgrimage is said to be in the Corpus Thoth Fraternitatis.
Its value is of course tremendous, even great for a man like Mr. August Iacobi.
After a few hours my old colleague replied and told me about a bookseller in Florence that should have a few pages of Corpus Thoth Fraternitatis. I was over there on the way back from Vienna. Hard to find, it was located near Dante's house, right next to a butcher shop that the family Botani owned, the bookstore was called Franzine.
I managed to find out that the bookshop owner actually had some pages. She claimed that the pages came from the University of Rome, from the law faculty and the pages were written in the 1600s but they were unreadable, encrypted in some kind cipher.
She was hesitant at first, but I offered her some money to just get to look at them under her supervision. They were specially laminated and she took them out with care from a cabinet she had under the counter. The first page was from the year 1602 and the second from the year 1604, at least that´s what she claimed. I studied the pages for several hours but they gave me nothing but confirmation that Corpus Thoth Fraternitatis probably exist or have existed. But it´s difficult to confirm what Coetzee says of the corpus, because I don´t have access to August Iacobi´s library.
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