Christmas Mickey and the Zeus of Olimpia Subject
The story takes place at the Museum of Mickey Mouse ...
Zapotec is an important revelation to Mickey Mouse and Goofy, called for precisely the great discovery came into possession of a valuable journal of the Renaissance written in ancient greek that you did not know existed. Professor Zapotec has indeed received a few days earlier by a passionate collector, apparently a simple lover of antiquity, but as we will see in store for a bitter surprise. Our teacher immediately reveals the two friends the secret characters hidden in the pages of the diary, inscrutable to non-experts. Describes the place where you will find a map that leads to the place where it is hidden one of the most remarkable sculptures of humanity: the "Zeus at Olympia, the work of the Athenian sculptor Phidias, completely covered with gold and ivory and initially kept in the temple of Zeus at Olympia. From the beginning it was disputed by most powerful men of their time. Marlin, a colleague of Zapotec, says that Caligula ordered his army to take her away from the temple, but when the soldiers were about to do the statue that they laughed, playing the incident as a bad omen, let go and came back empty-handed . Constantine did however move the statue to Constantinople, but after many centuries the palace, which was so jealously guarded in his imposing walls that jewel of antiquity, and a fire broke out in the work of Phidias are lost every trace ...
... At least until the discovery of the diary. In fact Professor Zapotec, having published a paper on the riddle whose resolution reveals This is the place where the statue, hands it to Mickey Mouse, these arguments on for a while and with help from "random" Pippo, announces with joy to his friends that he has revealed the secret! In fact he believes the work of Phidias is located in the city of Florence, the ancient capital of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany right in the long by the Medici family.
So Mickey, Goofy, Zapotec and Marlin, driven by an insatiable curiosity, leave immediately for Florence. Joints in the city where the Renaissance had his "coronation", they walk with great emotion the most characteristic streets and alleys, walk over the famous Ponte Vecchio admiring from afar the beautiful palaces, and finally ending the journey at the Palazzo Uffizi. You just come across a guide that has been "hired" by a group of tourists and decided to follow her on a visit to the most famous masterpieces of Renaissance art in the palace, the work of great artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, etc.. But while all the others head to the "Hall of Niobe" Mickey leads his friends in the Tribune, according to the enigma that he had solved the seat, as well as among the finest works of art in the museum, including the mysterious map. Our friends are then in a room by the octagonal shape and the typical furnishings alluding to the four elements of nature (air, water, earth and fire) was referring to the puzzle: the water is symbolized by the conch shells embedded in the ceiling, the air by closing the lantern dome painted with pink winds, the earth from inlays of semiprecious stones that adorn the floor, the fire from the scarlet color of the walls. Our heroes soon discover how to find the map: put the diary in the middle of the room and this triggers the mechanisms for the first three natural elements: they begin to emit their own light directing everyone to the Medici emblem printed in gold letters in the middle the cover of the diary. At this point the symbol is reflected on a golden free wall paintings, showing the map that leads to the "Zeus", which is the famous "Fountain of Neptune." Arriving in Piazza della Signoria where the dell'Ammonnati masterpiece, at the suggestion of Professor Pippo Zapotec puts pressure on the emblem by projecting the "fountain of light" before the real one, and like magic it moves below showing it is a spiral staircase. I went down into the bowels of the earth, our heroes are in front of a door, but this does not open. Mickey astutely notes that the slot is etched on the door of the same shape of the emblem, so remove it from the diary and inserts it into the slot using it as a key to open the door. In their eyes it has an enviable show as "Zeus" stands before them in all its glory. However, while our heroes welcome the stunning views, suddenly comes a fifth person. This is Macchianera, who explains that he assumed the role of collector in order to translate the ancient Zapotec writing his diary (stolen) contained, and then that he disguised as a taxi driver and tour guide to keep them under control until were reached in the presence of ancient sculpture. Macchianera however, did not even have time to rejoice in the success of his cunning plan, the statue of "Zeus" miraculously takes life, putting the criminal on the run. Left alone with the "king of the gods" it explains the 4 fatal had opened the door so that he could finally disappear going to fulfill his destiny. Once Zeus disappeared leaving a light parchment on which is written that his intended destination is Atlantis. Obtained evidence that the lost continent exists somewhere beneath the seabed, Zapotec promises that one day you will find and secure by Goofy and Mickey Mouse will not alone when this happens ...
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the archaeological museum of Mickey Mouse, is an important event in the course ...
Mickey: Professor Zapotec, what is the reason of our call so urgent?
Zapotec: The content of this precious diary mice, which had so far ignored the existence!
Foo: To whom it belonged?
Zapotec: The Grand Duke of Tuscany Francesco I de 'Medici, son of Cosimo the "Great"! King was mediocre compared to the famous father, but his court hosted artists from all over Italy and their activities had to the prosperity of the state!
Mickey: Uh! And how do you come in possession?
Zapotec: In the circumstances a little curious! A few days ago a guy came into my office saying that he was a known collector of objects belonging to the greatest men of the Renaissance ...
Collector: This diary is written in ancient literature professor, so I ask your help to find out what they mean and who knows what may lie hidden mystery!
Zapotec: You did well to come from me young man, modestly'm number one! It'll take me a few days!
Collector: Let me know as soon as news!
Foo: Yuk! You mean that perhaps Professor Zapotec this journal contains a map of a secret treasure of inestimable value?
Zapotec: Something like Goofy! And I think I already know what it is, though still hardly believe it, since it is believed to be destroyed!
Mickey: On Professor! Do not keep us on edge, what is it?
Zapotec: One of the seven wonders of the world, exactly ... Marlin
as "Zeus at Olympia, the work of the Athenian sculptor Phidias! The statue seems to me that he was fewer than 15 were high entirely carved in ivory with the exception of hair, beard, clothes and instead made the throne of gold, but what is most amazing about the presence of two large diamonds for eyes! Hello friends anyway!
Mickey Mouse and Goofy: Good morning Professor Marlin!
Zapotec: Snort! And 'it possible that you always interrupt me?
Marlin: Tsk! And you then? You always have to flaunt in front of others?
Foo: do not fight on as usual!
Mickey Mouse: Goofy's right! Rather than tell us a story of the statue, and why everyone thought it destroyed!
Zapotec: Good! It all started when even Greece became a Roman province, the emperor Caligula ordered that a statue of the greek god was transferred from Olympia to Rome ...
Caligula: Only The empire of Rome is worthy of hosting the great work!
Foo: And then what happened, the statue arrived in Rome?
Marlin: No! According to legend, when the Roman soldiers entered the temple to prune away, miraculously, the statue began to laugh, terrorizing the poor legionnaires ...
Zeus: Ah ah ah ah!
Legionario1: Q-This is a clear sign of the wrath of the "Lord of the gods"!
Legionario2: S-We run until we have time before we char with his lightning!
Mickey: What happened next?
Zapotec: The statue remained in the temple until greek rise to the imperial throne of Constantine, who, after having transferred the capital of his vast empire from Rome to Byzantium, renamed Constantinople in his honor, adorned the city of art and grand old homes, and just within those imperial walls was placed the "Zeus of Olympia and remained there for many centuries until one day the building caught fire and since then was never heard anything!
Soldato1: Not even the great masterpiece of Phidias was saved from the fury of the fire!?
Soldato2: Unfortunately, that level of work did not deserve an end like that!
Mickey: Until now!
Zapotec: Exactly!
Goofy: Now However, we do not know where is the map, despite the translation!
Marlin for a little ... Now, Mickey, it's your job!
Mickey: I should solve the riddle?
Marlin: Yeah, only you're able! And once they're going to take the map that will reveal where Francis I hid the "Zeus"!
Mickey: mumble ... mumble ... The air, water, earth and fire through the surrounding eight sides, with many statues and paintings that hide with pride!
Zapotec: What does it mean?
Foo: Even one of my ancestors, the proproprozio Pippis Alchimichis was a close friend of the Tuscan king to the common interest about science! But I know this is useless for ...
Mickey: Useless? It 'was very useful! Pippo're a genius! Pippo
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Zapotec: Do you understand the enigma Mickey Mouse?
Mickey: Eh eh eh modestly!
Marlin: Excellent! In what place we must go?
Mickey: In Italy! Precisely in Florence!
Zapotec: And where exactly?
Mickey: All in good time, now we have to get tickets for the "Land of the Sun"!
Marlin: It will take a minute, just go to toponet where there are cheap deals on flights cost law e. .. voila, four tickets to the capital of Tuscany!
Zapotec: We had to be in five, but those collectors did not come e. ..
Goofy: We just have to go without him! But now let's go, Florence is waiting for us! At the airport of Peretola
...
Mickey: We have arrived!
Zapotec: take that taxi, and let's get to work immediately!
Taxi driver: Where to bring you gentlemen?
Marlin: the Old Town
Soon ...
Marlin: That's her!
Taxi Driver: Thank you and goodbye!
Zapotec: Here we are in one of the most beautiful Italian cities, an international tourist destination!
Mickey: Yes, Florence is considered the cultural capital of Italy, the cradle of Renaissance civilization and the birthplace of the greatest artists of all time!
Foo: The complex of monuments in this city is exceptional, for example, see the Baptistery, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, with its famous dome by Brunelleschi and Giotto's famous bell tower!
Marlin: But civil architecture is no joke! The Ponte Vecchio, with a double row of shops reserved for the Florentine goldsmiths since 1500, Palazzo Pitti e. ..
Zapotec: Palazzo Uffizi! Finally! On the plane you've mentioned that in here is what we seek, real Mickey Mouse?
Mickey: Yes, but what we are waiting, let's go!
few minutes later ...
Guide: A way to jump immediately to the original building in the climate, gentlemen, is coming soon Here, on the third floor of the Uffizi, where is the famous Galleria prepared since 1581 by Grand Duke Francesco I, who made it the oldest museum in Europe! Was the famous comment of Italian Francesco Bocchi, struck by the extraordinary collection of objects present here: from the east in the highest place has made the Grand Duke Francesco a gallery so beautiful, so directed, and full of statues, paintings and noble valuable tools, the most sovereign beauty in the world today is truly remarkable wonder! Waves sweeping the eye in so many different beauty, so rare, so sublime, the greatest delight is in the mind bewildered. "
Guide: How blame him! Just look at the two most famous paintings of Botticelli's "Spring" and "Birth of Venus", the only painting by Michelangelo, or the "Holy Family", the Vasari Corridor, which houses the collection of the most important self-portraits the world! But now we drive to the "Hall of Niobe," where we will see ancient Roman sculptures, and finally the collection of "Cabinet of Drawings and Prints," which boasts over one hundred thousand drawings and is among the largest in the world, bla bla bla .. .
Goofy: Why we stopped!
Mickey: We have to go that way!
Marlin bad, just the most beautiful!
Mickey: The finest hour arrives Professor Marlin, after we passed through this gate!
Zapotec: In that room there is a map?
Mickey: You guessed it! But now we enter, and admire the magic of art in all its glory!
Zapotec: S-Superb!
Marlin F-Fabulous!
Goofy: No I do not believe my eyes! It 's beautiful!
Mickey: Huh huh huh! We have just set foot in the Tribune, the cutting edge of this museum! The Grandstand was completed in 1584 by Italian architect Bernardo Buontalenti, beloved by the eccentric Duke! The octagonal room was the heart of the collections, there being arranged more rare and precious objects together with the most famous paintings and sculptures! In its decor says a complex symbolism related to the four elements of the universe consistent with the interests in alchemy and science of Francis I! Above you can see the lantern painted with the wind rose to close the dome, it symbolizes the air. Allude to the water valve instead of a shell inserted in the ceiling, the fire is the scarlet silk walls and finally the earth from inlays of semiprecious stones that adorn the floor!
Zapotec: There is no shadow of doubt, the riddle was referring to this very room!
Marlin: But now we must find the map, and I fear will not be easy!
Foo: Yuk! The truth lies somewhere in between! Perhaps the Duke think so!
Mickey: We'll find out now, so we have nothing to lose!
Zapotec: Right! Settle the diary in the middle of the room, and ... hey wait! What devilry is this!
Marlin: Look! The diary is hovering in the air ee hovers in the air!
Mickey: O-Observe the compass rose, the shells and shell inlays of semiprecious stones of the floor! They are each emitting a light that illuminates the emblem of the De Medici engraved on the cover of the diary, but I do not understand the reason for everything ... hoooooo!
Foo: The emblem, is projecting the image of a scarlet silk fountain!
Zapotec: It 's the "Fontana del Nettuno" is located in Piazza della Signoria!
Marlin: The last obstacle that separates us from the "Lord of Olympus! But not for long!
Ten minutes later, in fact ...
Mickey: We are in Ammonnati Bartholomew's masterpiece, but then we find the mechanism that gives us access!
Foo: Yuk! Can only be one possibility!
Zapotec: What would it be?
Goofy: We try to reflect the image of the fountain reabsorbed by the emblem of the diary in the Tribune in front of the monument, I'm sure we will need for this final stage!
Mickey: At the bottom of the fountain Light is the key to the map!
Zapotec: Well we proceed! We award the badge e. .. UAO!
Marlin: I can not believe it works!
Mickey: Huh huh huh! Pippo's ideas are so strange, guess what!
Foo: Yuk!
Zapotec: I'm more into the skin, quick! We descend the spiral staircase, hidden from the work dell'Ammonnati!
Much later ...
Mickey: Pant: Francis I choose if I knew the hiding places!
Marlin: I dare not imagine the climb!
Foo: Currently professor imagine what's behind this door!
Zapotec: You're right, anf! It's the end!
Marlin: Now we just have not ... ... gnnn open!
Mickey: Huh huh huh! Have you not noticed that this door has a crack in the shape of a circle the same size ...
Zapotec: ... the emblem of the De Medici! Right!
Goofy: So we remove the emblem from the diary and use it as a key?
Mickey: Goofy ... gnnn guessed it ... done! Inseriamolo in the door, giving you the honor to open the teachers!
Zapotec and Marlin: With pleasure!
Zapotec: That blinding light!
Marlin: I can not see ... um ... the glow fell for goodness sake!
Mickey Mouse and Goofy: Wow! the "Zeus of Olympia!
Zapotec: I can not believe, the most wonderful work of all antiquity, at our feet!
Marlin: After so much sacrifice at last!
Mickey: But it was worth it, we are the first four people to admire this sublime masterpiece after many centuries!
Foo: Yuk!
Macchianera: Top Five exactly!
Mickey: Macchianera!? What are you doing here?
Macchianera: Tsk! For the statue, of course!
Foo: Have you been watching?
Macchianera: Yes, leaving you the onerous task of finding the "Zeus", and then act at the right time!
Marlin Sgrunt!
Zapotec: But how did you know that we were looking ...
Macchianera: I was the collector of the diary!
Zapotec: T-tu?
Mickey: Would you explain how did you have?
Macchianera: I kept them in my den for many years, when I stole it but I never realized what it contained, but a couple of days ago accidentally fell on the floor to show the old records!
Zapotec: And then you come to me, hoping that I could tradurtele!
Macchianera: Yeah! Ah ah ah! But when I came back to the museum, I saw that you had also informed the two of them, so I decided to change my plans! Anticipating your moves, I assumed the role of taxi driver and tour guide!
Mickey: Were you always?
Foo: Rogue, not do away with it!
Macchianera: Of course! And now And let in conversation, the sculpture will be mine, and nobody can stop me!
Zeus: Are you sure death?
Macchianera: Um? N-You can not, the statue came to life!
Zeus: Get out of my sight, if you do not pass the 'eternity in calculus!
Macchianera: Rattle, rattle! I-Immediately!
Mickey: We save your omnipotence!
Marlin: We are not come here out of greed!
Zeus: I know, I feel that your soul is pure!
Foo: Yuk!
Zapotec: I can not understand anything!
Zeus: You'll know in due course deadly, now that the door was opened I'm free to fulfill my destiny, farewell!
Mickey: It's-It 's gone!
Goofy: Look, a scroll of light, what it means!
Zapotec: mumble ... mumble ... "The king of the gods consume his fate in the land beyond the Pillars of Hercules, to protect the ancient technology of ... Atlantis!
Marlin: This is a proof that the "lost city" exists!
Mickey Mouse and Goofy: And we'll help you find it!
Zapotec: Atlantis! Sooner or later I'll find! END
It was concluded two days, the photo contest organized by the English site Acuavida.com. 
