All Men Are Mortal

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The novel tells the story of Raimondo Fosca, who receives the Lord of the fictional northern Italian town of Carmona in the 13th century an immortality potion. The henceforth immortal Fosca can extend its power further, but is not happy as he realizes that his immortality a curse equivalent: His wives and children die, but he must always live on. So he leaves Italy and slips now continually into new roles, so that he lives a life after another: As a consultant of Emperor Charles V, where he still hopes to create a paradise on earth, as a stranger in an Indian tribe, as aristocratic sadist in absolutist France, or as revolutionary at the time of the French July Revolution of 1830., but because he always loses all human beings around him, he decides mid-19th century, just fall asleep in a forest and must, after he was found there, spend a few years in an insane asylum before he met in Paris in the thirties Regine, which he left after a short affair.