Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta. Quibus Urbis Romæ, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res gestæ indicantur A Curtio Inghiramio reperta Scornelli propè Vulterram. Duplex index omnia edocet
Publisher: Amadore Massi
Published: 1637
Place of publication: Frankfurt i.e. Florence
Language: lat
Number of pages: 366
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Folio. pp. [24], 324, [8] (folded plates). Signatures: †4 ††4 A2
B4-Z4 Aa4-Ss4. Contemporary calf, gilt spine, small crack in top hinge. Armory
plate of unidentified cardinal. Closed tears in outer margins of Pp3 and Ss4,
latter with old repair, short tear in upper blank margin. Contains
illustrations facsimiles, folded plates, maps (2 folded, signed "Ioannes
Batista Falcinius incid"), folded genealogical table of the Inghirami
family signed "Ioannes Batista Falcinius incid." Has also half title.
Printer's device on title page. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials.
Numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations in text. Printed annotations.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Only edition of a great hoax, illustrating and ‘translating’
fragments of a chronicle of Etruscan Volterra written by one Prosperus
Fesulanus in 60 BC: created, buried in family land, and subsequently unearthed
by the young Curzio Inghirami of Volterra (1614-1655). The fragments were in
‘Etruscan,’ a language conveniently unknown to any living scholar, and told the
sad story of the Roman destruction of Etruria in 60 BC. The work was publicly
denounced for the first time in Meric Casaubon’s A Treatise of Use and Custom,
London, 1638 (Bib# 1789743/Fr#354 in this collection). See I. Rowland, The
Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery, Chicago, 2004; E. Havens,
“Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W.
Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe,
1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp.55-57, 71-72 n 45-46; I. Rowland, “Melchior
Inchofer, S.J., and the Letter of the Virgin Mary to the Citizens of Messina,”
in idem, p. 235.</span></p><p></p>

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