Re: VMs: Re: Cicco Simonetta / Sartirana / library...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Petr,

At 16:17 20/04/2003 +0200, Petr Kazil wrote:
> With my meagre knowledge of Renaissance culture and politics (acquired 
> only because of my interest
> in the VMS) I can go along with your reasoning. I think it's the best 
> theory we have at the moment.

Well... hopefully it's a start, anyway. :-)

> A by-product of your theory is that the illustrations are an elaborate 
> piece of obfuscation. A kind
> of steganography, meant to distract from the real (textual) contents.

I'd like to hope that the theory should stand independently of whatever the 
content turns out to be.

For example, from my research into the "nine rosette" map page, it seems as 
though what we now see is an obfuscated version of a real map - I think the 
main "castle" rosette represents Milan, and the central rosette Venice, but 
the rest of the images are quite possibly no more than the briefest of aide 
memoires. More on that another day. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick P..... 


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