A Cure for Serpents A Cure for Serpents A Cure for Serpents: A Doctor in Africa is a 1955 travel book by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, later the Duke of Pirajno, an Italian doctor, writer and former colonial governor of Tripoli. Set in Libya, Ethiopia and Somaliland, the book is a collection of anecdotes about various places he visited in his work as a physician in North Africa in the 1920s and the people he met, which includes tribal chieftains, Berber princes, courtesans and Tuareg tribesmen and of a lioness, which became part pet and part guard. The book was translated into English in
Christ with a Staff Christ with a Staff Christ with a Staff or St James the Less is a 1631 painting by Rembrandt, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was also known as "Christ" in 1854 and exhibited in 1933 as "The Pilgrim". The picture is in Rembrandt's style of the 1660s and may have painted in his workshop. Whilst the brushwork certainly imitates his unique style some scholars have suggested that its manner of execution is similar to that of Arent de Gelder (1645–1727), one of his latter pupils. In 1661 Rembrandt made a series of paintings of the apostles, including