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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In the autumn of 1627, while Paris lives under Richelieu's power, Aramis receives an unexpected letter from Beatrice de Valombre, an austere widow and an old acquaintance, now the editor of a small devotional periodical. The letter carries the trembling voice of Madeleine Rouvier, wife of Etienne, a fencing instructor at the Royal School of Young Musketeers of Saint-Martin-de-Argentat. The woman fears that someone is plotting her death. She speaks of footsteps in the night, a missing dagger, and a phrase overheard behind a door, connected to the approaching Feast of Saint Michael. Aramis, torn between prudence and chivalry, seeks advice from Athos, who understands the political gravity of the situation: a murder at a school intended to train the king's future servants would be a scandal capable of endangering reputations and secrets of state.The four musketeers depart for Argentat under the pretext of attending a weapons demonstration by the cadets. The school, a former convent transformed into a military institution, welcomes them with its severe atmosphere of discipline, chapels, armories, dormitories, and guarded corridors. Captain Geraud de Montfaucon defends the institution's honor with obsessive rigor. The instructors seem like guardians of shadows: the rough Rouvier, the aristocratic de Brissac, the silent Father Seraphin, the melancholy Sombreuil, and the elegant Gaspard de Lignieres, whose presence awakens in Athos a sorrow connected to an old mission in Flanders.When Aramis finally manages to meet Madeleine, she appears to be more than an innocent victim: she is a restless, intelligent, feared woman, accustomed to collecting confessions and secrets through her charitable works. She promises the musketeer a notebook containing dangerous evidence, but that very night she is found dead in the courtyard, at the foot of the chapel, with a broken silver medallion between her fingers. Everything seems to point to her husband: marital quarrels, jealousy, a lost key, a dagger missing from the armory. Yet Athos senses an arrangement that is too orderly, an accusation prepared with excessive care, more like a trap than the truth.The investigation unfolds both inside and outside the school walls. Porthos, thanks to his boisterous humanity and his ability to befriend the people of the kitchens, washhouses, and stables, discovers a bloodstained shirt bearing an embroidered heraldic emblem. D'Artagnan earns the cadets' trust and learns that a boy, Nicolas de Fleurance, may have seen something he was never meant to see. Aramis searches among chapels, confessions, and feminine glances, while his path crosses that of Isabelle de Sombreuil, a proud and wounded young woman bound to a father destroyed by remorse. Meanwhile, the town, divided among nobles, the devout, the poor, and Huguenots tolerated only reluctantly, searches for a convenient culprit, and Magistrate Aubertin seems more interested in closing the case than in understanding it.New clues complicate the picture: a mud-stained white feather, testimonies withheld out of fear, a marginalized woman accused because she is too poor to defend herself, a hiding place in the Chapel of Saint Anne, memories of war, and a buried past that returns to bite into the present. Every piece of evidence brings the musketeers closer to something greater than a simple murder: Madeleine may have uncovered a private wrongdoing and an ancient betrayal capable of bringing down respectable men and staining the school's honor. As the Feast of Saint Michael and the great trial of arms approach, the tension mounts: the public spectacle promises splendor, but beneath the draperies, uniforms, and fleurs-de-lis of France, a moral, political, and personal reckoning is taking shape. The four friends must protect the innocent, resist those in power, and b Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In the somber France of the seventeenth century, Eleonore de Montfaucon lives in hiding among the salt marshes of Guerande, in a house without coats of arms, her body ravaged by black vitro: a mysterious substance that has bound her to the abyss and calls to her every night from the depths of the sea. When her elderly servant Jerome delivers a bundle left by her father before his condemnation, Eleonore discovers a map engraved on thin plates of silver and obsidian. It leads not to a treasure, but to the Black Heart of the Sea, a secret machine buried beneath Mont-Saint-Michel, capable of controlling the tides and redrawing the map of Europe.Meanwhile, in Paris, Cardinal Richelieu receives alarming reports from the Normandy coast: submerged bells ringing at low tide, abandoned ships with no crews aboard, and villages evacuated by inhabitants terrified of the so-called pilgrims without shadows. He summons D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis and entrusts them with an unofficial mission: find Eleonore, if she is indeed alive, and bring her to him, for she alone can understand the threat. But the order conceals a darker clause: if the duchess can no longer be separated from the danger she carries within her, the musketeers must prevent her from falling into anyone else's hands, whatever the cost.The journey toward Normandy becomes a descent into a land where reason begins to falter. The four men pass through deserted villages, churches desecrated by circles of seashells and black sand, and inns inhabited by fear. They witness the passage of the pilgrims without shadows, silent, almost incorporeal figures who seem made of memory rather than flesh, advancing toward the mount as though summoned by a will submerged beneath the waters. D'Artagnan realizes that the same summons might draw Eleonore, and that the true conflict will be not merely political but deeply personal: between obedience to Richelieu and his undying feelings for a woman regarded as an enemy.Eleonore, too, makes her way toward Mont-Saint-Michel, determined to reach the Black Heart before anyone else and shut it down. But along her path appears Isabeau de Vauclair, a noblewoman believed dead and leader of the Brotherhood of the Empty Tide, an organization of fallen nobles, exiled engineers, disillusioned clergymen, and merchants of death who seek to awaken the machine and overthrow the rule of kings. Isabeau reveals a terrible truth to Eleonore: the black vitro has not merely poisoned her. It has made her akin to the Black Heart, transforming her into the living key capable of opening it.The destinies of the musketeers and the duchess converge in a flooded chapel, amid ruins, black water, and submerged presences. D'Artagnan finds her marked by fever and the summons, yet still clearheaded, proud, and determined not to become an instrument of the Brotherhood. Athos grasps the moral stakes of the mission, Porthos brings practicality and courage, and Aramis interprets the religious signs of a threat poised somewhere between forbidden science and sacrilege. From that moment onward, the four are no longer pursuing a suspected traitor: they are accompanying a woman fighting against the evil consuming her.As they approach Mont-Saint-Michel, the tides begin to behave impossibly, defying every law of nature. Agents of the Brotherhood attempt to capture Eleonore alive, while the summons of the Black Heart grows stronger with every step. The danger mounts alongside the moral tension, until loyalty itself is put to the test. The mission becomes a race against time: enter beneath the mount, descend through its hidden passages, and prevent Isabeau from completing the awakening. Amid duels, visions of the sea, secret tunnels, and restrained love, D'Artagnan and Eleonore must confront the decisive question: Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Conoscere e spesso considerato un bene senza ambiguita. Sapere significa comprendere, orientarsi, scegliere meglio, sottrarsi all'inganno e ampliare la propria liberta. Eppure esistono conoscenze che non si limitano ad aggiungere qualcosa a cio che gia sappiamo: cambiano il modo in cui vediamo il mondo, gli altri e noi stessi. Dopo certe scoperte, nulla e materialmente diverso e tuttavia tutto appare diverso. Una diagnosi, una confessione o un ricordo reinterpretato possono trasformare il significato di cio che e gia accaduto e modificare cio che immaginiamo possibile per il futuro.Questo libro nasce da una tesi semplice nelle parole, ma difficile nelle conseguenze: non e necessariamente la verita a renderci infelici; e l'impossibilita di tornare alla persona che eravamo prima di conoscerla. Alcune forme di sapere producono una soglia di irreversibilita. Possiamo accettare cio che abbiamo scoperto, elaborarlo, persino trasformarlo in una risorsa; piu difficile e recuperare integralmente la condizione mentale precedente. Una volta incrinata una convinzione fondamentale, il mondo continua a esistere, ma non puo piu essere abitato nello stesso modo.Da qui l'immagine della conoscenza come ferita: non una condanna del sapere, ma una trasformazione che lascia traccia dentro di noi. L'innocenza, in queste pagine, non coincide con ignoranza o mancanza di cultura. E una forma di ordine: il periodo in cui alcune contraddizioni non sono ancora entrate nel nostro orizzonte e possiamo costruire identita, relazioni e aspettative senza doverle integrare. Quando una nuova verita interviene, anche il passato viene riletto, perche eventi gia vissuti acquistano significati diversi.Il percorso attraversa mito, letteratura, psicologia, filosofia, scienza e cultura digitale. Dal frutto proibito a Prometeo, da Orfeo a Edipo e Faust, le grandi narrazioni occidentali hanno rappresentato il sapere come desiderio e insieme come rischio. Un equilibrio viene spezzato da un enigma, una ricerca conduce a una rivelazione, e cio che conta e la persona che rimane dopo la scoperta.La stessa ambivalenza riappare nella modernita scientifica. Conoscere significa acquisire potere sul mondo, ma ogni nuova capacita apre responsabilita e dilemmi imprevisti. La medicina puo prevedere prima di poter curare; la tecnica puo aumentare la liberta e insieme gli strumenti di controllo; la memoria digitale puo conservare cio che un tempo sarebbe scomparso. Con l'eta dell'informazione il problema si rovescia: non dobbiamo piu soltanto chiederci come ottenere conoscenza, ma come vivere quando l'informazione e continuamente disponibile.Notizie, notifiche, immagini, statistiche, diagnosi, confronti e tracce del passato entrano con facilita nella vita quotidiana. Possiamo sapere molto piu di quanto siamo in grado di elaborare. Avere accesso a un dato non significa averne colto il senso, e comprenderlo non significa ancora sapere come integrarlo nella propria vita.La questione conclusiva non e dunque se sia meglio sapere o non sapere. Il problema e che cosa dobbiamo diventare per riuscire a convivere con cio che sappiamo. La maturita non consiste nel liberarsi di ogni illusione fino a ridurre il mondo al cinismo, ne nel proteggersi da ogni verita. Consiste forse nella capacita di mantenere il desiderio senza trasformarlo in certezza, la fiducia senza confonderla con cecita, la speranza senza pretendere garanzie.La cicatrice diventa allora l'immagine concreta di questo passaggio: e la forma assunta dalla continuita dopo una trasformazione. Cosi alcune conoscenze rimangono dentro di noi: non come condanne, ma come segni di un passaggio. Non possiamo tornare del tutto a chi eravamo prima. Possiamo pero imparare a vivere, scegliere e immaginare il futuro a partire Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …