Blow, wind, blow

Blow, wind, blow through the trees. This is a special, magic place. It is said that is a sacred forest. I don´t know if it is a enchanted place or not but it is also called “Parco dei Mostri” (Park of the Monsters), a wooded park at the bottom of a valley with a castle above, and with mysterious sculptures and small buildings hidden among the vegetation. There is an entrance where you can meet JANUS and PROTEUS, who warn you about the kind of place it is. You should listen to them before going in. Having crossed this point you will be given a last word of the SPHINX.

Over the grounds, someone says a human voice is heard, the voice of Vicino. Vicino was born into an aristocratic family. His father had been a famous warrior but Vicino couldn’t be like him because of his physical deformity what the cause of his humilliation. However, his mother gave him a exquisite education. So inside the dark forest you will find the god NEPTUNE and, illuminated by the sunlight, the goddess CERES.  



March, and a new life is coming, the water springing up through the fountains VENUS and PEGASUS. The most beautiful things are symbolised by the THREE GRACES. Vicinio was married to Giulia. He truly loved her. 

  

After the wedding, Giulia died. Vicino felt that the THEATRE of his life had no sense and became deeply depressed. He isolated himself as if swallowed by a WHALE. A battle, as strong as one of HERCULES’, was unleashed inside himsel.

  

Route to hell; Vicino went mad and so strange images are spread out around this wild garden: a TURTLE, an ORCO, a LEANING HOUSE, a DRAGON, an ELEPHANT and the nymph PROSERPINE. It was a long road of desperation until one night he saw Giulia in his dreams, covered by a MASK of moonlight and she gave him water to drink from a PITCHER as the sun rose. Then she disappeared and suddenly he faced to the three-headed dog, CERBERUS, and felt his life was in mortal danger. At that moment he awoke.

 

 

Zenith of the forest, a TEMPLE can be found, erected to commemorate, forever, the love of Vicino for Giulia.

Of course, this place has a name, and if you are interested in knowing what it is you should link some red capital letters written in this tale. More clues: the name of the lover was Pier Francesco Orsini, and his beloved was Giulia Farnese. Finally, it is said that in this place a tarot card is hidden. All tarot cards have a dark side and some say that this related story also has its dark side: Vicino loved his wife so much his wife that he went mad when he found out she was pregnant and the father was someone else, the man she really loved.  Unable to handle this, he killed her.

                                                                                                                                     Peña