"The work to black" is the story of a fictional character, Zeno, physician, alchemist, philosopher, born illegitimate in Bruges in the sixteenth century, to the catastrophe that concludes its existence. The story follows him on trips through Europe and the Levant, sees it in the exercise of medicine, both at the bedside of the plague both in rulers, intent on research in advance of the official science of the time, follows him in perpetual and risky moves, including riots and compromise. Zeno is a human being who has gone through the Renaissance behind the scenes and is subversive of the dynamism of the alchemists of the Middle Ages and the technical achievements of the modern world, between the visionary genius of Hermeticism Cabala and atheism and that just dared to call that. The fate, the thought of the character were inspired by the great German chemist Paracelsus, to Michael Servetus, devoted himself to investigations into the bloodstream, the Notebooks of Leonardo and to the philosopher Tommaso Campanella, who was singularly bold. A crowd of extras, merchants, bankers, clergy, workers, women of every level where nothing is sacrificed to the picturesque but in the decades 1510-1569 as they appear in a new, daily, and at the same time, underground, through images Read from the main road from the laboratory, the cloister, from the sales counter, the tavern, and finally out of jail.
