Re: Translations (was VMs: Spending lots of money...)

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Philip,

At 12:11 01/02/2004 +0000, Philip Neal wrote:
> I have finished translating the treatise on decipherment by Cicco Simonetta
> but Jim Gillogly tells me the file is too big to post to the list. I will 
> put it on
> my web pages when I get round to it (I have changed ISP and I can't easily
> get access to my pages). Anybody who wants it as an attachment is
> welcome to it.

Please email a copy to me, I'm really looking forward to it - BTW, I can 
post it onto GC's voynich.info site if you like?

At 12:11 01/02/2004 +0000, Philip Neal wrote:
> > From: Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > FWIW, my first step AFA Alberti goes will be to read Anthony Grafton's 
> > (2000) biography, which looks to paint an interesting and balanced 
> > picture - and step two is to read the (2003) translation of Alberti's 
> > Momus on an interlibrary loan. *sigh* so many leads to follow, so little 
> > time... :-o
>
> I next plan to translate Argenti on decipherment and then either Argenti on
> encipherment or Alberti on encipherment, unless it has been done already.

Excellent - here's the link to "De Componendis Cyfris" Petr Kazil posted 
recently:-
        http://www.jura.ch/lcp/cours/dm/codage/alberti/decifris.pdf

More links on Alberti here:-
        http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mpaoli/sitalber.htm

> Is this Momus, translated in 2003, the same as the treatise which begins
> Hi [Li] qui maximis rebus agendis and contains the story of the walk in 
> the Papal
> garden with Dato?

I don't think the two are connected - AIUI, Alberti wrote Momus in around 
1450:-
        http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0674007549
        http://www.hup.harvard.edu/reviews/ALBMOM_R.html

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


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