Chapter 3444: Forest Feast (Part 1)

After Botticelli finished "Spring", he completed another set of paintings in 1483. This painting was based on a story from the Decameron and was also decorated in the newlyweds' room.

In Ravenna, Romagna, there was a young man named Onesti. Like many young people, he fell in love with a girl, but the girl's family was much higher than his and she was very cold and ruthless to him.

Onesti was too sad because of the blows one after another. He packed his bags and left Ravenna with many friends and came to a place called Chiasi to heal his emotional injuries.

Later one day, he walked into a forest in a trance and suddenly heard a sharp cry, which seemed to be made by a woman. He subconsciously wanted to see what happened. Soon he saw a very beautiful woman in the thorny bushes. She had disheveled hair and was naked. Her skin and flesh were torn by branches and thorns. She cried and ran.

In addition, he saw two ferocious dogs chasing her, and behind her was a knight on a black horse, with a furious look on his face, looking as if he wanted to kill her.

This terrible scene frightened Onesti, but he felt pity for the unfortunate woman and wanted to try to save her. However, he had no weapon in his hand, so he broke off a branch instead of a stick and ran to deal with the two big dogs.

"You are a fully armed knight, but you want to kill a woman, treat her like a wild animal, and let two dogs bite her. It is really despicable and shameless." Onesti shouted fearlessly to the knight.

The knight saw Onesti and told him a story. He loved the naked woman, but she was cruel to him. In despair, he killed her, and in despair, he stabbed his heart with a dagger. He fell into hell and suffered forever. The woman was tortured with him. Every Friday, he would hunt her down. Once he caught up with her, he would kill her with the sword he had stabbed himself with, open her chest, dig out the hard and cold heart, and feed it to the two big dogs.

Not long after, the scene really happened in front of Onesti, and the lovers became enemies.

"I really don't understand why you want to live in this place."

Georgina looked up and saw Paulina standing at the door.

"Isn't it nice to live in an oriental palace?" Paulina complained.

"What's wrong with the Sforza Castle?" Georgiana said, putting the sketchbook for copying Botticelli's paintings on the table.

Paulina turned around and left, complaining as she walked.

Behind her followed two children, one was her son Dimitri, and the other was Leo, who was adopted from an orphanage not long ago by Georgiana. He was looking back at Georgiana.

At this time, he changed into a child's clothes for aristocratic children, which looked ill-fitting because he was too thin, and his ears looked bigger.

"Do you like it?" Georgiana asked Dimitri.

"Can I ride a horse?" Dimitri asked happily, "There is a big yard here!"

She felt it was inappropriate, even though Murat had let his son ride his horse.

"Ask your uncle Luigi, you are not allowed to ride without his protection." Georgiana said.

"Great!" Dimitri said happily, and ran after his mother.

Leo hesitated, bowed to Georgiana, and then left with Dimitri.

Georgiana shook her head. In any case, the Sforza Castle was spacious enough for two children to play.

Then she looked at the sketchbook again.

These four comic-strip-like woodcuts ended with a wedding. Onesti married his beloved girl, but before the wedding, he held a banquet and let the girl see the knight chasing Luo Nu at the banquet. The girl and her parents were terrified.

On the tree outside the banquet, there were three family crests, namely the Pucci family, the Medici family and the banker Bini family.

This was a marriage arranged by Lorenzo the Luxurious. The Pucci family received a huge dowry from the Bini family through this marriage. The Bini family certainly did not agree, so they witnessed the knight disemboweling the woman and digging out her heart to feed the dog.

She touched the trembling flower bracelet.

Taking this opportunity, she might practice dueling in case she would need it one day.

At least, she didn't want to be like Helena.

In the past, Tobias Snape always yelled at Irene, not only because of the International Statute of Secrecy, but also because Tobias asked her not to use the wand.

Maybe she thought that everything would be fine as long as the family was not so tight, or maybe there were other self-deceiving reasons.

But everyone around "saw it clearly", the police came to the door more than once, and there was indeed no scar on Irene's body, because Tobias did not do it.

Severus would never become a person like his father, but...

She looked down at the scene of the "banquet" again. The scene was so horrible that it was hard to tell who was the "heroine" for a while.

She felt that she woke up too late. If she could realize this earlier, Severus Snape would have died like a hero.

Minerva's transition from vice-principal to principal was not as smooth as imagined. The Ministry of Magic originally planned to take over Hogwarts and make it a school to cultivate talents for the magical world.

When Dumbledore died, many things changed. At that time, the call for Harry to be the Minister of Magic had not dissipated. With his support and Minerva's prestige over the years, he finally became the Headmaster.

An official act by a public official legitimizing an illegitimate child is an act of clemency.

The premise for an illegitimate child to have the right to inherit is to be recognized by his father, which Voldemort did not get.

Harry was the recognized child and could inherit the gold coins that James Potter left him.

Little Tom Riddle looked exactly like his father, and so did Harry and James, so much so that Sirius would have recognized the mistake.

So no matter how the romance between Severus Snape and Lily is rumored, no one will doubt that Harry is Snape's child.

This "knot" is so closed.

She closed the sketchbook and took out the Leonardo da Vinci manuscript copied with the copy spell from a small tracing box.

Napoleon took 9 Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts with him before leaving Milan, and even Georgiana could not "loan" them from the Louvre.

She flipped through the manuscript for a while and found something about "trees."

Leonardo da Vinci once proposed the "Rule of Trees" to explain the growth law of trees, that is, the sum of the diameters of each branch of the tree is equal to the diameter of its trunk.

Georgiana wasn't going to actually measure the diameter of each branch of a tree to determine the truth of the "tree rules."

"First take a piece of glass mirror and fix it with your eyes fixed. Then look at the first tree, trace the shape of the tree on the glass, and then move the mirror towards the tree so that the real tree, Get close to the tree you drew so that the two resemble each other in color and shape."

"Draw the second tree and the third tree in the same way as the first tree. The distance between them is 100 arm feet. Whenever you start painting, no matter what you draw, these pictures can serve as standards and pointers. , make sure you reflect the correct distance in your work.”

"But I've found that as a rule, when the second tree is 20 arm feet away from the first tree, it's four-fifths the size of the first tree."

Georgiana plans to do the experiment in Leonardo's manuscript.

The braccio is a unit of length in ancient Italy. At the same time, Leonardo da Vinci also recorded a game. One person randomly drew a straight line on the wall, and the others stood 10 arm feet away. Several people held a braccio in their hands. Based on his estimate of the straight line on the wall, cut the grass or straw in his hand short, and then estimate the length of the straight line on the wall to measure the accuracy of his judgment of the length just now.

This was considered by Leonardo da Vinci to be an ability that a painter must have, and whoever comes closest is the winner.

The cubit is an ancient Egyptian unit of measurement, which is the length from the middle finger to the elbow. It is called cubitus in Latin.

Braccio originates from the Latin bracchium, meaning "support".

She couldn't understand why it was so divided.

She told Julian that it was a joke that Nous was a cat.

Noos means reason in English. It is derived from Greek, and logos was the same as it and can be translated as reason.

Later, logos focused on logic, while nous focused on free play. Just like a cat, if you ask it not to push things off the table with its paws, will it listen to you? Even if you feed it cat food and cut its nails every day.

Some people think that this "first push" of self-will requires purpose, but why did the cat push things off the table?

Oh, you are its owner, is that true?

There was a "pop", and the glass broke. In "A Brief History of Time", the broken glass represents the increase of entropy. Muggles do not know the restoration spell to pour the broken glass back and become whole again.

Maybe someone feels that the cat is too annoying and drives it out of its closed space "home" so that there will be no increase in entropy.

It may knock over the trash can downstairs and sing "arias" with the kittens across the street, keeping you awake. At this time, you will find that its "little destruction" at home is far different from what it does outside.

Western philosophy pursues reason in order to get rid of the madness at the bottom.

Maybe that cat is doing all that damage just for happiness, and happiness is also a kind of "push".

Many owners don't want things in their homes to be damaged, so they drive their cats out. The home will naturally be tidy and clean, and they don't have to clean up the mess they made after get off work. Scamander's magical animals had caused him so much trouble in New York, but he still loved them, and he didn't punish them for escaping without permission.

Logic pays more attention to dialectics, and it can be established regardless of reality. The flat earth theory is logical and people believed there was an "end of the world" until there was proof that the earth was round.

Maybe Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule was correct, and Georgiana wasn't going to do the experiment any more than she was going to prove how many angels could stand on the head of a needle.

If two mirrors are placed face to face, they will form a "channel" that looks endless.

But if we follow Leonardo da Vinci’s logic, these mirrors, like trees, “can serve as standards and pointers to ensure that you reflect the correct distance in your work.”

In "The Last Supper", the bread on the table can be used as this reference, especially Matthew, who is third from the right. His hand is stretched out and is exactly an arm's length from the bread on the table. In this way You can estimate how long the table is.

The table almost fills the entire length of the room. The wall of the window should be the same length as the table, but it is shorter because of the perspective effect. Then we can calculate the height and width of the room.

But what is the use of this calculation?

Matthew 7:24: Rain, floods, winds, and winds beat against the house, but it did not fall, because it was founded on rock.

Of course, there may be other explanations. Anyway, Georgiana put on a sun hat and found a mirror to do the experiment.

For a Scotsman, the weather in Italy is really hot.

"I really want to eat ice cream." She said to herself and walked out of her room.

I estimated that it was 12*66cm, which is about an 8-meter-long room.

If you are proficient in image processing, do the calculation yourself