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Re: Voynich letters

At 19:10 29/09/01 +0200, Rafal T. Prinke wrote: 
That's exactly what occured to me the other day, when I was watching
_The Name of the Rose_ again. Remember the hunchbacked monk Salvatore
and the language he used? With his heretical contacts with Cathars,
dabbling with black magic, his use of all languages at once, and
not understading much of it all - he would be an ideal author
of the VMS (had he really existed - or maybe Ecco based this
character on someone quite real?).

I had a similar thought last week: what with its mysterious semiotics, probable codes and layers of medieval North Italian historical context, you'd have thought that Umberto Eco would have written about the VMS at length?

.....maybe he thought he had nothing to add after Name Of The Rose. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....