Aelia Laelia Crispis: The enigma of the Bologna Stone

By Nicolas Barnaud and Adam McLean

In the closing decade of the 16th and through, well into the 17th century, various writers became concerned with an enigmatic inscription, supposedly found carved on a stone monument in Bologna.
The closing lines of this say "This is a tomb, having no body inside; this is a body, having no tomb outside; but the body itself is its own tomb."
Its mysterious tone attracted various intepretations, including an alchemical one.
Centuries later, even Carl Jung felt impelled to explore its paradoxical language.
This book is a translation of the text by the alchemist Nicolas Barnaud, in Manget's Bibliotheca chemica curiosa of 1702.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJR8B98Y
• ISBN13: 9798293589890
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"