Feeling the collapse of eras, Piers Moffett writes a book about Egypt (not Egypt, but Egypt), practices heroic love according to the method of Giordano Bruno and finally learns to drive a car. He seems to already understand why gypsies are believed to be able to predict the future, and why Michelangelo’s Moses got horns on his head, but “The Hypnerotomachy of Poliphilus” still baffles him. In the background, the eternal battle between werewolves and witches continues, and John Dee and Edward Kelly, at the instigation of angels from the crystal, leave foggy Albion and in Prague seek the patronage of Emperor Rudolf, who is favorable to alchemists.