Elagabal, the Poorly Sacrificed God
Elagabal (203–222) reigned from 218 to 222 under the official name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. He was subjected to damnatio memoriae after his death — the formal erasure of his inscriptions — before some modern historians partially rehabilitated him as the victim of a system he had never chosen, and of a grandmother who had chosen for him.
Published on 30 avril 2026
The Woman Who Held the Sky
In 1470, the Khan of Mongolia stared at the ceiling of his yurt with the serene tranquility of someone who smokes too much. Someone had to hold the empire together. That someone was his wife. He died without an heir. She took care of it.
Published on 22 avril 2026
The Escape from the Piombi (Leads)
Escaping from the Piombi prison was said to be impossible. Casanova escaped. The news caused a sensation throughout Europe.
Published on 18 avril 2026
Hatshepsut – The Name we no longer speak
Thutmose III spent decades erasing Hatshepsut's name, and it is precisely this erasure that intrigues Egyptologists three thousand years later and resurrects her.
(Narrated by Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt.)
Published on 16 avril 2026
The Night of the Moika
The night of December 16, 1916, four men gathered in the basement of the Yusupov Palace in Saint Petersburg. They had a plan. What followed defied it entirely. History remembers Rasputin. It remembers him as a mystic, a scandal, a legend. It remembers him, above all, as a man who was remarkably difficult to kill. This is not his story. It is the story of the man who pulled the trigger — and had to keep pulling.
Published on 12 avril 2026
The Buckingham Meteor.
Buckingham is the very archetype of the character who transcends fiction - no novelist would dare invent someone so outrageous without being criticized for his implausibility.
Published on 10 avril 2026
Monty at Lehman Brothers
Finance professionals almost always find ways to generate short-term profits while creating long-term risks. Risks for you, not for them.
Published on 08 avril 2026
Lucia Valenti’s Revenge
Venice, 1754. Behind the opulence of the silk trade lies a world of betrayal.
Lucia Valenti was born to inherit an empire. Instead, she was left with nothing. When her brother Lorenzo forged their father’s will, he didn’t just steal her fortune— casting her into the gutters of Venice–, he stole her soul. For three years, Lucia has survived the shadows, fueled by a singular, burning purpose: to watch Lorenzo lose everything. The only thing more dangerous than a man with a secret is a woman with nothing left to lose. But revenge, even successful revenge, comes at a price.
Published on 04 avril 2026
The Witch Famine
The political economy of the witch hunts: in 1682, Louis XIV's edict reforming witchcraft trials transferred confiscated property to the Crown, rather than to the accuser. The correlation—striking and entirely unsurprising—with the collapse in the number of denunciations is noteworthy.
Published on 02 avril 2026
The Imprint
Born after her mother suffered a chemical accident, Elara possesses a physiological coldness that sets her apart from the world of men. At the High Peaks Institute, isolated in the snow and silence, her absolute calm is interpreted as a threat. They say she was born dangerous. That she is the product of a mistake, not of a deliberate choice.
For the headmaster, she is a biological time bomb. For her philosophy professor, she is living proof that the soul can transcend the flesh. The Imprint is a reflection on redemption. Can we choose to be human when everything within us compels us not to be?
Published on 29 mars 2026
