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PETRU RUSSU
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and London, Uk
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THERE IS an entire cycle of medieval legends about Saladin. Recently, he paid the ransom once he had returned to his house. But when the
I have met an eminent art scholar, descendant of a distinguished Cru- knight returned home, he didn’t find any money to pay the ransom.
sader knight that had the fortune to benefit from that magnanimity. He So, he decided to go back to prison. Saladin was impressed by his ges-
was captured by Saladin, who then set him free, on the condition that ture, and set him free once again only on the condition that he change
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