Editorial
Evus, lifting the veil
Evus is the new magazine for those who want to re-appropriate history. It is a web magazine that links our past – full of mysteries and hidden traces – with our present, since we think that only through knowledge and awareness of the past are [...]
In Focus
The Fountain of Women
The Fontana Maggiore, or Main Fountain, is like a book of stone that unfolds while walking around it.
It is like a great clock that transcends both cosmic and earthly timetables. Completed in 1278, the monument of Perugia became the fulcrum to which public life revolved around, and therefore the symbol of the “Platea Magna” (latin [...]
The garden of love
My journey has brought from a castle far away to meet the man who I have sought so intently, the medical monk who resides in this abbey. He is my last hope. I have no other option than to try his potions in order to save my marriage.
Perhaps his concoctions will be able to heal [...]
Panorama
The saint of Templars and Flagellants
Even if we do not have evidence of his existence, we must rely on tradition to tell us Bevignate was a hermit who lived in Perugia, although we don’t know exactly when. André Vauchez called him “the mysterious saint of Perugia” and Ugolino Nicolini said, “total darkness surrounds his story.” Nicolò Del Re wrote: “Nothing [...]
Modena. Bevignate and the Templar Code
Who was Bevignate, the mysterious hermit of Perugia who the Holy Church refused to canonize? An aura of mystery surrounds this man who was venerated by the Templars so much that they dedicated their new church to him, built around 1260 in Perugia.
I started research on Bevignate and discovered that he was indeed linked to [...]
Zoom
Eastern cults in the Umbrian Apennines In Umbria it is already possible to pick out the name of the goddess Isis from ancient inscriptions, especially at Terni and at Spoleto. These cities are geographically projected towards the area of Latium, where the port of Ostia, and naturally Rome, would have constituted the principle landing and launching point for the diffusion [...]
Iconography of a goddess Isis, mother of Horus, is also commonly associated with another ancient Egyptian deity named Hathor. This name, which literally means “house of Horus”, represents a symbolic lap for her son, who is also the son of Osiris.
Following suit of her many forms, Hathor was the goddess of love as well as the goddess of fertility. [...]
Report
The Festival of the snake charmers Not to be confused with the founder of the Dominican order by the same name, St. Dominic from Foligno was a saint of Umbrian origin, born in 951 at Capodacqua near Foligno. His cult is still being celebrated today at Cocullo in Abruzzo, with the “Festival of the snake charmers,” an event of great folkloristic [...]
A mystery in the crypt The church of San Ponziano, built outside the medieval city walls of Spoleto and close to the paleochristian temple of San Salvatore, is considered one of the most interesting examples of romanesque architecture in central Italy. It belonged to a benedictine abbey and was dedicated to the patron saint of Spoleto, martyred during the persecution [...]
Portrait
Venus on the Kalend of April Woman, in her role as wife, is the protagonist of four different scenes out of the twelve months of the Main Fountain. There is no doubt of her identity as uxor, “wife” in Latin, is clearly written in letters above each of these scenes.
We meet one in April: she holds a floral wreath and a [...]
The mystery of the refused canonization It was on the 13th of October 1307 when the King of France, Filippo il Bello, ordered the arrest of the Templar Knights. The monks who belonged to the order were imprisoned and tortured, including the Great Master, Jacques de Molay. Their property was confiscated, and all archives and documents were destroyed, making the task [...]
