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Everyone had flocked to the port of Venice that day, an impressive ship had arrived from an exotic country. According to many, the most beautiful woman was on board. They all wanted to admire such beauty.
Her servants were the first to come out, they were creepy looking, wore long black sais, and a black tear was painted on their faces. People became frightened, the loud buzz turned into silence. Suddenly, those strange men knelt down, the woman would soon magically appear.
There she was! Absolutely stunning!
On her head a black veil would partially hide her features, her eyes were of a purplish color, clear, icy, her thick blond hair fell down her back, nine layers of black veil covered her naked body. Barefoot, catlike, she moved in the ecstatic crowd. Two of her servants followed her, crawling and kissing the "blessed ground" she was treading on.
Suddenly she stopped among the crowd, each and every one of them yearning for her gaze, her light. Without a second look, she delicately raised her hands to shoulder height, allowing her two servants to get up so they could resume their way towards the city.
"She certainly is the most beautiful woman on earth".
Escorted by her twelve faithful servants, the woman continued to walk, moving in a rhythmic way, as if she was performing an ancestral ritual, a dance. So she moved, until she arrived in front of the Doge's palace who welcomed her without hesitation. That evening a sumptuous banquet had been prepared in her honour, which the exotic queen joined, but it was only her servants who ate. At first the doge considered the act an insult, but he soon forgot all about it when the queen quietly stood up, to sit next to him, showing the parts of the body less hidden by the veils. The banquet went on for the whole night, everyone in the city was celebrating, unaware of what the queen had in store for them: thousands of rats were invading the city, creeping into every nook, impregnated in evil, the kind of evil that makes men worse than the devil himself. On the third day the queen had sailed away to sea, greeted by hosts of admirers, with a great party in her honour, begging her to return. After a few days the first cases of plague occurred, unaware, the doctors blamed the weakest people or whoever was more convenient to blame. “…the warmest women”, since “they were carriers of the rottenness that made people die”, everyone tried to leave swampy places “death could come even from the putrid marshes”. To fight the disease, they decided to always keep their houses warm, making the true bearer of their death, the plague flea, proliferate. The darkness became the absolute master of men’s minds, turning them into demons. Entire families were exterminated, children and parents burned alive inside their homes. Gravediggers and doctors roamed the city in their macabre-looking beak-nosed masks. Hundreds of corpses were burned. The smell of rotten flesh entered every hole and remained alive in the minds of all, as a warning for their fate. Lines of flagellants ran through the streets, announcing the end of the world, thus spreading the pestilence everywhere.
The Beast had come from the sea, the Beast was a beautiful woman who had brought death and desolation by turning men into demons.
Pestis Pestis Pestis
"And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
Ivan Perciballi
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Translation by Erika Frati
The Exotic Queen
