The writer Andrés Trapiello He woke up early on Valentine's Day 2016, like every Sunday, to go to the Rastro, Madrid's street market. There, in a traditional dealer's stall, he came across hundreds of old books, placed on the sidewalk in the street, along with an oil portrait of a young Santiago Ramón y Cajal, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 for demonstrate that the brain is organized into individual cells: neurons. Trapiello leafed through the volumes and immediately realized that he was in front of the library of Cajal, the best Spanish scientist in history. The price was about 30 euros for each unit, remember. He only bought one, but the rest of the copies flew shortly. One of those lost books just came out now for sale on the internet for 12,000 euros. Is Fantasmi Photography, a work published in 1912 by the Italian spiritualist Enrico Imoda, with photographs of alleged ghosts. In the margins, there are indignant notes from Cajal, such as: “It was a drawing on cardboard!”
