The Eternal Trial - Venice: The Longest Night is a metaphysical and gnostic narrative set in Venice on the final night of Carnival, in the year 1770-a night that seems to refuse the passage of time itself. A nameless jester arrives in the city as fog, masks, and ritual blur the boundary between dream and judgment. Moving through sacred and profane spaces-church steps, gambling halls, cafés, and shadowed canals-he sings a series of odes addressed not to individuals, but to forces: Power, Vice, Illusion, Order, and Night itself. Each song becomes an indirect testimony in an unseen, eternal trial, where guilt is never openly named and the accused is never formally present. Venice emerges as both setting and living organism: a decaying republic, a masked courtesan, a city suspended between faith and corruption, desire and denial. Carnival is not mere celebration but a cosmological loophole-a moment when archetypes awaken, masks gain agency, and ancient truths surface through performance rather than doctrine. At the heart of the narrative stands a fractured feminine figure, hidden behind a white mask, embodying desire, power, and exile. Her encounter with the Jester triggers a rupture: the first crack in an illusion believed to be eternal. What follows is not redemption, but recognition-brief, painful, and luminous. The Eternal Trial - Venice: The Longest Night is not a historical novel in the conventional sense. It is a symbolic trial staged through music, poetry, and ritual, where humanity itself becomes both witness and evidence. Drawing on gnostic thought, mythic archetypes, and theatrical language, the work explores fear as the true origin of sin, the cost of denying the feminine principle, and the possibility-however fleeting-of reconciliation. This volume is the second chapter of The Eternal Trial, a literary cycle conceived as an open-ended process rather than a closed saga, where judgment is perpetual and truth is revealed only in fragments, through those who dare to sing it.