Absolution
An Experiment in Immersive Storytelling
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Chapter 2
More odd entries
Amon Nagi
to Zarina Rosiello
Zarina,
It seems your n-great grandfather became rather ill in the beginning of the year 1651. I am not familiar with medical conditions in the 1600s but perhaps you might know of something. He also seems to be obsessing about the woman that attacked him. I wonder why.
Kind regards,
Amon Nagi
PhD Candidate | Research Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland | History Department
https://www.uzh.ch
It seems your n-great grandfather became rather ill in the beginning of the year 1651. I am not familiar with medical conditions in the 1600s but perhaps you might know of something. He also seems to be obsessing about the woman that attacked him. I wonder why.
Kind regards,
Amon Nagi
PhD Candidate | Research Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland | History Department
https://www.uzh.ch
Giovanni didn’t have the bubonic plague!
Amon Nagi
to Zarina Rosiello
Zarina,
There was a long gap of time in the journal between the last entry I sent you and this one. I have been busy with my studies so I have not been able to translate as many entries as I would like. This one is good news though! Giovanni seems to have recovered from his illness. I wonder what it was.
I have briefly scanned over the entries following the last one I sent and Giovanni seems to have gone back to his old routine. He has written so much! I have been randomly choosing entries to skim and he had three children! His eldest was a boy, followed by twins. Do twins run in your family?
Would it not be interesting to find some information on the woman that attacked him? Maybe she had some kind of nasty flu. I am going to search the university archives for “1650, crazy woman in Naples attacking deacons”. If only the archives were indexed in Google.
Kind regards,
Amon Nagi
PhD Candidate | Research Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland | History Department
https://www.uzh.ch
There was a long gap of time in the journal between the last entry I sent you and this one. I have been busy with my studies so I have not been able to translate as many entries as I would like. This one is good news though! Giovanni seems to have recovered from his illness. I wonder what it was.
I have briefly scanned over the entries following the last one I sent and Giovanni seems to have gone back to his old routine. He has written so much! I have been randomly choosing entries to skim and he had three children! His eldest was a boy, followed by twins. Do twins run in your family?
Would it not be interesting to find some information on the woman that attacked him? Maybe she had some kind of nasty flu. I am going to search the university archives for “1650, crazy woman in Naples attacking deacons”. If only the archives were indexed in Google.
Kind regards,
Amon Nagi
PhD Candidate | Research Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland | History Department
https://www.uzh.ch
Zarina Rosiello
to Amon Nagi
These journal entries are intriguing! It almost seems like whatever illness infected Giovanni actually made him stronger.
I wonder who that "devil" woman was?
Twins do, in fact, run in my family. I have younger sisters who are twins.
Let me know if you uncover anything interesting!
Best,
Zarina
I wonder who that "devil" woman was?
Twins do, in fact, run in my family. I have younger sisters who are twins.
Let me know if you uncover anything interesting!
Best,
Zarina
The mystery woman
Amon Nagi
to Zarina Rosiello
Zarina,
As I suspected, our archives are not as good as Google. I was not able to find anything about the mystery woman. Your family does not happen to have any old stories about this do they? That would certainly simplify things.
I have been asking around scholarly circles in Zurich to see if anyone has a lead on this woman, but so far I have not had any luck. I have shared the translations with colleagues and some of my professors but no one has any useful direction for me to go. Sadly, I think we may have arrived at a dead end.
If only I had a name.
P.S. I came back to my flat this evening to find a handwritten note nailed to my door. “Die Historie wird am besten in der Vergangenheit verlassen. Kümmere dich um deine eigenen Angelegenheiten.” It means, “History is best left in the past. Mind your own business.”
Kind regards,
Amon Nagi
PhD Candidate | Research Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland | History Department
https://www.uzh.ch
As I suspected, our archives are not as good as Google. I was not able to find anything about the mystery woman. Your family does not happen to have any old stories about this do they? That would certainly simplify things.
I have been asking around scholarly circles in Zurich to see if anyone has a lead on this woman, but so far I have not had any luck. I have shared the translations with colleagues and some of my professors but no one has any useful direction for me to go. Sadly, I think we may have arrived at a dead end.
If only I had a name.
P.S. I came back to my flat this evening to find a handwritten note nailed to my door. “Die Historie wird am besten in der Vergangenheit verlassen. Kümmere dich um deine eigenen Angelegenheiten.” It means, “History is best left in the past. Mind your own business.”
Kind regards,
Amon Nagi
PhD Candidate | Research Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland | History Department
https://www.uzh.ch
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