Author: Stefania Mussolino
Dimensions: 14cm high, 12cm wide
Material: Ceramic with iron key

The tale of ancient legends, a treasure of immense power.
The life and destiny of Naples kept in the fragile strength of an egg, the one that Virgil - a magician with alchemical skills and poet - hid in the depths of the castle that rises in the Gulf of Naples, on the islet of Megaride: the Castel dell'Ovo.

Legend has it that when the Siren Parthenope, destroyed and abandoned at the mercy of the sea, after the unsuccessful attempt to conquer Ulysses, she laid an egg among the rocks in which she was entangled, shortly before letting herself die in the stormy waves.
All the fortune and heritage of the city are hidden in it, as well as the precious ability to transform any metal into gold.

Virgil picked it up placing it safely in the dungeons of the Castello Marino, because, if it ever unfortunately broke, or if someone had found it, misfortunes and atrocities would have struck the city of Naples and its people.
In Cardine's work, as in a Pandora's box, the key has the task of forever protecting the mysteries of his land, of preserving life and the fiery energy from which everything is born and which destroys everything.

In a small and delicate leathery casing, the origin of the universe.