Saturday started with weather closer to winter than autumn and with some clouds that made any outdoor plans cancelled, for that reason, the Buenos Aires International Book Fair It became the ideal proposal to spend a day surrounded by books, having the unique opportunity to chat with the authors and learn behind the scenes of each publication.
This approach with the filmmakers offers a great attraction that makes visitors line up several minutes before to guarantee the best places. One of these cases was the presentation of the journalist and host’s latest novel. Cristina Perez. The audience, mostly women, was divided into two: those who came with the book in their hands, discussing characters and regressions to past lives, and the coolest ones who wanted to meet and listen to the person who had accompanied them for so many years. with your newscast.
Time to be rebornas the work is titled, explores the mysteries that surround Simonetta Vespuccia figure that served as inspiration for the iconic painting “The birth of Venus” of Sandro Botticelli. This story mixes the present with the past, addressing complex themes such as past lives and regression, based on research in the field by Pérez’s sister, Lourdeswho is a therapist.
This work is the result of a deep fascination with the Renaissance, specifically inspired by a dream that led the author to explore the life of Elena, a 23-year-old Italian girl who, upon contemplating the painting of Venus in the Botticelli room of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, experiences a moment of amazement that triggers a series of questions about the possibility of having lived in another era. Pérez explains that this mysterious beginning was the trigger to delve into an investigation that sought to discover the identity of a woman known to everyone but at the same time unknown.
During his investigation, Pérez came across the figure of Lorenzo de Medici, the Magnificent, who in his tributes to Simonetta Vespucci after her death, highlighted the young woman’s ability to make those who knew her feel loved. This tribute from the most powerful man of the time to Simonettahis muse in life and death, and the devotion that Sandro Botticelli he professed to her, painting her even years after her death and wishing to be buried at her feet, were key in the development of the book. “This story marked me deeply because it began in a mysterious way that I will never be able to explain in my life. That is, through a dream, which allowed me to take them by the hand with my letters through this story. To achieve this, I found myself with the challenge of encouraging myself to enter a world that I did not know, which is that of regressions to past lives,” Pérez commented as she started accompanied by her sister. Lourdestherapist, and Liliana Hollmannpsychologist and disciple of Brian Weissspecialist in past life therapies.
The work Time to be reborn Not only is it a historical novel that lives on the edge of the tangible and the spiritual, but it is also a call to ask ourselves how we can be reborn. “We all have a puzzle to solve about ourselves. But to achieve this we must discover that there is that inner question: Who am I?” Pérez reflects in his book, thus providing an invitation to readers to embark on a journey that is both internal and historical.
The interaction between Perez and the public, including questions about the representation of Venus and its meaning in the work, highlighted the complexity and richness of the Renaissance as a source of inspiration. The work proposes a revisitation of this historical period not only as a time of artistic splendor but also as a mirror of personal and spiritual search, showing how the past, through figures such as Simonetta Vespucci and Lorenzo de Medici, continues to vibrate in the present. “The truth is that I am very grateful and feel blessed to have found this story and to have been able to tell it, but also for this time with these two profound women who give wings to my own story in the book. I am grateful that it had such a high flight and we are happy with my editors that within a month and a half of publishing it we already had three editions,” added the very excited journalist.
At the end, the journalist took a few minutes to remember her mother who died in August of last year while she was writing this novel: “If somewhere in heaven my mother is looking at us today, I know that she is also with me. There is a lot of pain that we went through and I think that when my mother left she gave birth to us again because with her love she helped us continue living without her and I deeply feel her presence as something that is incarnated in us.
The book not only offers an intriguing interweaving of historical and contemporary narratives, but also proposes a deep inquiry into the concepts of identity and personal rebirth, inspired by the profound research work on regressions carried out by Pérez’s sister, shedding light about how past experiences could influence our present lives, which invites us to reflect on the connection between past and present, and the eternal human quest to understand who we really are.
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