Citations:cinnabar


 * 1977 &mdash; In the alembics and phials he is being handed by the Page of Cups, his famulus or assistant, he examines the bubbling of liquids thick as urine, colored by reagents in clouds of indigo or cinnabar, from which the molecules of the king of metals are to be detached. &mdash; Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 6, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.