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In the Palatine Gallery, Mercury hands Nina, Jamal and Lorenzo a scroll with a dark mystery. When lightning rips across the sky, the three youngsters find themselves in the Veneto countryside, in a far-off time, near Giorgone’s farmhouse. However, the famous painter is gone. Amid angry merchants, dangerous soldiers and other treacherous pitfalls, the three friends must find the artist and discover his secret before they can return to Florence.


Pierdomenico Baccalario started writing at an early age and won the Il Battello a Vapore Prize in 1998. Since then he has written many adventure stories, series, and fantasy novels for children, translated into 30 languages and published by top Italian and foreign publishers. For over 20 years he has worked with the Lucca Comics & Games organisation, as well as with La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura. In 2013, he created the creative agency Book on a Tree, in London.

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