Rare books that lead to treasure? Hypnerotomachia Poliphili...Dead sea scrolls ....Templars etc.

Dear ''All''

In 1497 during a misty night in November two messengers rode out from the Vatican carrying documents going furiously to San lorenzo.

Outside the city walls of Rome stood this Chapel where the riders ventured...a secluded place. The two riders had been warned under pain of death not to open the contents of their letters.

The letter had been sealed 4 times in dark wax.

The two horsemen Rodrigo and Donato did not heed thier masters warning about not opening the letters. They heated the wax seals with a candle and read. Before leaving for San lorenzo they resealed the document and copied the seal impression again.

Being none the wiser and thinking themselves geniuses they went to the church to meet their fate ...death. You see the wax seals were in fact made from deadly nightshade...a plant used medicinally. which when apllied to the eyes made the eyes dilate. In those days it was used by Italian women as large pupils were considered a beautiful thing as a cosmetic....it was this practice which
earned the plant its nickname ''beautiful woman'' or belladonna.

It was this fact which would be their undoing you see when they got to the church they were brought towards the candlelight in the candelabraa as the story goes and their eyes failed to constrict...and their contact knew what they had inhaled.....they died quickly.

The hypnerotomachia is a book written by these two couriers master Francesco Colonna. in the book Francesco tells of a Dream of a person named poliphili whom has a dream....

In this time period Europe was going through a purification of sorts deeming many pieces of art history and more to be not in line with official church teachings and hence was in need of burning... Francesco Was the man whom smuggled out of Europe pieces of this history and archeaology given him by others ....He hid the location to the treasure in the pages of the book he wrote. The only way to get to the clues is to appreciate a GREAT deal of humanities studies (which would have been in opposition to the church view) and hence prove the interpreter ''worthy'' of the treasure.

Knight templar treasure? lost works on atlantis? Annunaki? Humanity may never know but an interesting read on this topic can be found in ''The Rule of Four'' written by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomson.

There are many books that hold many mysteries I thought it would be appropriate for GLP to have a ''rare books thread''.

Feel free to add your own.

Warm regards,
Edmond Dantes