The story of Cyrano de Bergerac, phenomenal swordsman, free spirit and poet who wears in the middle of his face a nose that “by at least a quarter of an hour always precedes him,” has entered by right into the popular imagination, so much so that it has been translated,adapted and interpreted countless times. The story is well known:enamored without being able to reveal it with his cousin Rossana,who in turn is bewitched by Cristiano’s beauty, he proposes to his young rival a plan to conquer the unattainable maiden. However,not everyone knows that this legendary character is inspired by the historical figure of Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, one of the most eclectic writers of seventeenth-century France and forerunner of science fiction literature. His novels are metaphors for wondrous journeys, both realistic and visionary, to the Moon and the Sun. Anda fantastical journey within one’s own soul is precisely what the two protagonists undertale, who, from rivals, discover themselves to be brothers, in search of the beauty that seems to be the overarching theme of the tale
