DERUTA A.D. MCDLXXII: The Alchemy of the Soul in the Heart of the Renaissance

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Marco Rebisin has found his peace. In Renaissance Deruta, the man who came from the future has built a life he never dared to dream of: the love of Lucia, the esteem of an entire community, and an art workshop that has become a legend. But the birth of his twin children, Chiara and Giorgio, brings with it a joy as great as the danger it hides.
The children of a man who came from the stars cannot be ordinary children. Their prodigious intelligence—a fusion of the logic of the future and the faith of the past—flourishes under the watchful and increasingly uneasy eyes of the learned friar, Fra Giacomo. Their education becomes a silent battleground for the very soul of the Renaissance.
As the fame of the “child prodigies” crosses the walls of Deruta, attracting the admiration of humanists and the interest of the powerful, Marco fights to protect their fragile normality from a world that is not ready to understand them.
But just when peace seems finally to have been won, two figures appear on the road to Deruta. They do not belong to this time. They are an impossible echo of the past Marco has tried to forget. And the news they bring is devastating: the future he fled is collapsing, and his escape may be the cause.
Now, the man who sought refuge in the past finds himself facing an impossible choice. Can true peace exist for his family when the future itself comes knocking to settle the score?