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The author says about his new book: "Prague was twice an imperial city. The first time during the reign of Charles IV, the second time during the reign of the art-loving eccentric Rudolph II. This Habsburg moved his seat from Vienna to Prague in 1583, making the Czech metropolis the cultural center of Europe for twenty-eight long years. Artists, scholars and adventurers from many countries flocked to Prague under the emperor's protection, goldsmiths, as they called alchemists, who dreamed of making gold from less noble metals, and astrologers, i.e. astrologers, who searched the world of stars, planets and star spheres came to us prediction of human destinies. The epoch of Rudolph II. it still fascinates us with its magic, secrets and mysteries. As if the artificial man Golem, supposedly created by the genius Rabbi Löw, was still walking through the streets of the Jewish ghetto at night, and somewhere in the underground laboratory Edward Kelley saw fragments of real gold glinting at the bottom of the curved glass... Let's dive together into the depths of the Rudolphian era and talk about a remarkable emperor and about the people who co-created this time!"