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    Rembrandt's Confession
    Rembrandt's Confession
    Rembrandt's Confession
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    Rembrandt's Confession

    By Brian Christopher

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    Rembrandt is famous for his paintings but not many people know about his personal life. After his wife Saskia died, his life became embroiled in a relationship that would shock the world even today. This short story is about the other side of Rembrandt - officially documented, but few people know of. He was a great artist, but at the same time - could he have been a murderer?

    On June 18 On June 18, 2003 Hans Benting received a call from Dr Giorgio Bola regarding an ancient manuscript written in medieval Dutch found in a small forgotten library in Rome. The library was thought to be a private collection with only forty-three books, all in Latin, except for this.
    How it came to be there no one knew.
    Since all the other books turned out to be non-descript translations of known Bibles they expected this to be the same. Unfortunately no one in Rome could translate it, hence they called Dutch historian Hans Benting. To his surprise the book was not an ancient bible - but something more incredible.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Christopher
    Release dateNov 6, 2014
    ISBN9781310544545
    Rembrandt's Confession
    Author

    Brian Christopher

    Born in Dublin, Ireland. Worked as a producer with various national broadcasting companies. Having created a collection of original stories over the years - they are now gently being released into the real world.

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      Rembrandt wasn't an angel and have done some mistakes in his personal life and with his own assets. So what? Nevertheless the way this book is written is simply awful, a waste of time!

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    Rembrandt's Confession - Brian Christopher

    REMBRANDT’S CONFESSION

    By

    Brian Christopher

    Copyright Brian Christopher

    What does a historian do if he does not teach in a university or school, publish books or appear on TV and become a media celebrity? Hans Benning is one of those historians who does the legwork, the graft, the academic who spends weeks, months and sometimes years crawling through ancient manuscripts and forgotten decaying books to satisfy his own curiosity. When the research is complete, he sells it on to the academic world or museums. That pays the bills, leaving him free to come and go as he pleases, and carry out his work in relative peace and obscurity.

    It was in the middle of June when Hans received a call from a fellow Italian historian. Dr Giorgio Bola had found forty-three ancient manuscripts during the renovation of an old building not more than a kilometre from the Vatican. All thought to be part of a private collection, and all in Latin, except for one they knew to be written in medieval Dutch. How it found its way to such an unusual library 1600 kilometres from the Netherlands, no one knew. Since the other manuscripts were nondescript translations of known Bibles, this was of no significance to the Italians. Besides, none of their scholars could translate it; hence, they called Hans Benning.

    With no budget for a flight to Rome and a nice hotel, the package was sent to his small apartment in The Hague by UPS. At 9:25 Am it arrived in the thinnest, cheapest brown paper, with criss-cross twine that just about held it all together. In his small living room at the front of the apartment, he cut the string and removed the packaging. Immediately, he could see why they had little interest. The leather binding front and back was thicker than the actual contents itself. It contained no more than fifteen pages of what looked like authentic parchment. Highly unusual because of the expense of the binding. Maybe that was a problem; could it be that three-quarters of the manuscript was missing? Checking for damage before delving deeper, he inspected the centre pages to see if any had been ripped out or stealthily removed. On closer inspection, the stitching was tight and intact, with no loose pages or evidence of tampering. More importantly, the stiff spine was the exact thickness of the contents. Relieved, he concluded it was all original and complete.

    Later that morning, as he sipped a Nespresso, the second part of the inspection of the contents came under his meticulous scrutiny. Sitting at his long dark oak dining table in the middle of his apartment living room, he positioned the reading lamp with a magnifying glass above the manuscript, switched on the light, then opened the front page. Diligently, he focused on the ancient text. The manuscript was indeed Dutch. Judging by the language and spelling used, he could easily date it to the fifteenth or sixteenth century. It gave an account of the Begijnhof, an enclave in the heart of Amsterdam, which began as a female religious community known as the Beguines who helped the sick in the fourteenth century. Hans knew it well. It was still in existence, only now it was an enclosed historic area, more or less a living museum housing unmarried women, and open to the public from eight o’clock in the morning until five in the evening. The manuscript gave a detailed description regarding the Begijnhof grounds and the Saint Lucien monastery next to it, which later became an orphanage, and now home to the Museum of Amsterdam. What struck him the most was the wording they gave to one particular house, a ‘House of Lost Souls’. Hans thought he knew everything about the buildings attached to the Begijnhof and the monastery, which was now the Museum of Amsterdam, but a house of ‘Lost Souls?’ That he had never heard of.

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