His description of his hunt for secrets in the preface to the Secreti helped to give rise to a legend of the wandering empiric who dedicated his life to the search for natural and technological secrets .
Piemontese was the prototypical ' professor of secrets ' .
Piemontese 's description of his hunt for secrets in the preface to the Secreti helped to give rise to a legend of the wandering empiric who dedicated his life to the search for natural and technological secrets .
Piemontese was the prototypical ' professor of secrets ' .