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The design and construction of the Church of Santa Croce began in 1294 and was not initially completed until 1443. The current Church of Santa Croce was not completed until 1863. This Tuscan Gothic style church has always been the largest and most beautiful church in Florence. The Franciscan Church is inside the church. There are monuments and mausoleums of some heavyweight celebrities, such as: Dante, Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Rossini, etc.

It was sometimes early in the morning when Bayonetta brought Salomon here on her motorcycle, and a small number of tourists arrived at the Fountain Square in front of the church.On the left side of the gate, there is a statue of Dante with a deep frown and sunken eyes, seemingly dissatisfied with the tourists disturbing its peace.

The sound of bells on the right side of the church suddenly sounded far and wide, attracting waiting tourists to look up.

The ticket is eight euros and comes with an exquisite brochure that Salomon got from a tourist.

The front of the church was not open, but Salomon still used magic to open the door and sneaked in while no one was paying attention.Bayonetta and Salomon walked into the church through the Gothic doorway with white marble and the heavy oak door. They looked up and carefully looked at the exquisite carvings on the forehead and the Star of David at the top. That would just be a waste of time for them.

When they entered the chapel, the sunlight sometimes shone through the church's stained windows, which were mottled and colorful. However, the church was not gorgeous, the structure was relatively simple, and it was poor. It lacked decoration, which was a characteristic of the Franciscans.The only works from the late 14th century that could be called colorful with stained windows were Bayonetta's lack of interest in these precious works of art. She looked around casually.

She said, "Little guy, how are you going to convince the administrator here to let you check those documents? And you want to read them secretly? But I think you may not have that much time."

"It just requires a little trick to control people's hearts." Salomon said, "But we don't know where the documents are stored. It's not in the travel brochure, and there is a place where the documents are marked. But I think it's impossible. It would be too bad if the sacristy was there."

Salomon followed the directions in the tourist brochure and took Bayonetta through the central aisle and the cloisters separated by rows of octagonal pillars that bypassed the sixteen chapels arranged on both sides of the church.Those chapels belong to famous Florentine families, including the Medici family, and many famous artists have left murals in these chapels.

But Salomon and Bayonetta didn't come for sightseeing. They walked straight to the monastery, which was not allowed to tourists.When Salomon met the first monk, he sometimes immediately used the spell "Charm Humans".This made him and the monk immediately become good friends who talked about everything.

Along the way, the two of them began to discuss the murals in the Renaissance. In order to make friends for themselves and the history of this church, the monk deliberately took them to avoid the other monks and went to the monastery, regardless of the regulations of the monastery. There is a small library.Because here are the most well-documented manuscripts of various artists of the Renaissance, he believed that as long as he read these precious manuscripts, it would definitely be of great benefit to his dearest friends.

Of course there is in terms of artistic accomplishment.

"Did you see that?" Salomon spread his hands and said, "What a friendly person here! I think even the devils in hell would be moved by his sincerity! So it's Bayonetta, why did you still knock him out?" Woolen cloth?"

"I don't like monks," the witch replied, turning her head.After the monk led them to the library, Bayonetta simply hit the monk on the back of the head with the handle of the gun, and the cute monk fainted on the ground without saying a word.

"I hope he won't have too much of a headache when he wakes up." The secret mage grabbed the monk's legs and dragged the completely unconscious monk to the back of the bookshelf. "I mean he has a headache in a literal sense. I hope he won't think of it as a devil." I seduced him out of hope...forget it, it's whatever, I quite like him."

"How do you get such artistic literacy?" The witch watched Salomon busy rummaging around in front of the bookshelf and asked, "I think learning magic will take up most of your time. Where did you learn it?" There are those things.”

"The extra lesson is Bayonetta." The mystic mage did not turn around. He was using the mage's hands to carefully take out those precious manuscripts. "Not only do I have compulsory courses in painting and sculpture, but also art appreciation courses." That's right, science courses. The Renaissance was an important period for mankind to get rid of religious ignorance, and this period accounted for a large part of my courses."

The Holy Cross Church not only contains manuscripts, but also has notes written by many artists during the Renaissance, and alchemical research was led by the church.One of the pioneers of alchemy in the Franciscan Church was the Franciscan friar Rogier Bacon. He was invited by Pope Clement IV to write three alchemical books.These writings contain powerful arguments for improving knowledge and strengthening the power of the Christian state through the study of language, mathematics, natural philosophy, and alchemy.Friar Bacon believes that human beings' alchemy is not weaker than nature, but rather stronger. If done properly, all laboratory products are like this. Human beings can copy nature and be superior to natural objects.

This idea has continued to this day and has become the basis of modern chemistry.

In this church, there are even manuscripts collected by spiritual Franciscan monks, which surprised Salomon.Because these spiritual priests fell into apocalyptic fanaticism, they loved prophecies and believed that the antichrist was about to appear, so the church ordered the arrest of these monks, including Jean de Roquetayard.He was arrested in 1344 and spent the rest of his life in prison, but he survived and was visited by many people, including high priests.

During his imprisonment, Roktayard wrote many works including "The Book of Light". He first proposed the concept of "mass balance" in his book "On the Making of the True Philosopher Stone", that is, "the reaction products must have weight." Exactly equal to the initial material having weight”.Salomon speculated that the Franciscans at that time had not given up on spiritualism because they believed that the church needed knowledge to deal with attacks by the Antichrist, so this part of the manuscript was collected in the library.

"Holy shit!" Salomon couldn't help but exclaimed while looking through the manuscript.

"What's wrong, little guy?" Bored, he raised his long legs on the table. The witch came over fiercely, but Salomon didn't, because the witch suddenly had some reaction. His attention was attracted by the manuscript in front of him. .

On this yellowed parchment, there is a hand-drawn pattern of a circle that looks like a shield, with an eagle spreading its wings on the shield.Salomon looked back and saw that the manuscript belonged to Leonardo da Vinci.