VMs: RE: Forged to look old in 1634

["Patrick Muller [FENOMEDIA]" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI

NYT has an article as well. 
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/book
s/review/16WILLSL.html&OP=3d8498b3/Q22Q3E_aQ22fPJuQ5EPPsKQ22KMMzQ22M!Q22!{Q2
2aPPWuQ22Q5E_-k_Q3EQ22!{y2Q5DQ5D.Q5DU5sbd

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The following link will give you some additional Google hits on this book. 
http://tinyurl.com/6eucv


-Patrick

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Neal
> Sent: dinsdag 15 februari 2005 14:48
> To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: VMs: Forged to look old in 1634
> 
> There is a fascinating article in the current issue of the 
> New York Review of Books about a corpus of forged Etruscan 
> manuscripts produced around 1636.
> 
> I have the print edition in front of me but you have to pay 
> to read it on the web.
> 
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=17754
> 
> Joseph Connors is the reviewer of a book by Ingrid D Rowlands 
> about a forgery by the seventeenth century Italian Curzio 
> Inghirami. Connors and Rowlands are alive and probably make 
> their living out of writing, so I urge you to pay a small fee 
> to read the whole article. A few quotes:
> 
> * Of course it was all a forgery. Curzio dreamed up a fantasy world...
> 
> * a kind of Etruscan Lord of the Rings...
> 
> * another fold-out etching shows the Inghirami family tree...
> 
> * about thirty pages of pseudo-Etruscan text and about as 
> many Latin translations...
> 
> * "The Wolf is the mother of the Lamb. The Lamb shall love 
> the Dog. A pig shall come forth from the horde of Pigs and 
> shall devour the work of the 
> Dog.    He shall laugh while weeping and build while 
> destroying, until water 
> swallows all of Etruria. Then shall the Kingdom of Volterra 
> [be] again. This prophecy will not always be obscure."
> 
> * the watermark of the local paper factory...
> 
> * One commentator thought that Curzio was too young to have 
> made all this up...
> 
> * The finger was then pointed at... Tommaso "Fedra" 
> Inghirami, who lived a century before Curzio...
> 
> * There is some astronomical lore in Curzio's text.. But 
> there was no astronomical sense to be made...
> 
> A seventeenth century forgery, with samples of the alleged 
> original text. An alleged translation which makes no sense. 
> And the really interesting thing is that serious scholars in 
> the 1630s suggested that it was a forgery but one created a 
> century before their day.
> 
> Ring any bells?
> 
> I say, no wonder Kircher wanted to know who Barschius was.
> 
> I continue to study the Voynich manuscript and I continue to 
> think that it probably enciphers meaning.
> 
> Philip Neal
> 
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