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		<title>I&#8217;ve just got back from Italy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/07/19/ive-just-got-back-from-italy</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;where I&#8217;ve been filming in Venice and Milan for a Voynich documentary to come out (I guess) in late 2012. So, I&#8217;m very sorry if I&#8217;ve been somewhat quiet of late, but this process has involved a fair amount of behind-the-scenes preparation to try to get the most out of all the different locations. Apart [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8230;where I&#8217;ve been filming in Venice and Milan for a Voynich documentary to come out (I guess) in late 2012. So, I&#8217;m very sorry if I&#8217;ve been somewhat quiet of late, but this process has involved a fair amount of behind-the-scenes preparation to try to get the most out of all the different locations.
Apart from [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Milanese enciphered letters, call for help&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/06/28/milanese-enciphered-letters-call-for-help</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/06/28/milanese-enciphered-letters-call-for-help#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will know that I&#8217;m pretty good at digging historical things up, at shining lights under long-unmoved archival rocks. Well&#8230; my challenge this week was to find some mid-Quattrocento Milanese enciphered letters, and though I&#8217;ve possibly got most of the way to an answer, I&#8217;ve ended up a bit stuck, and would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will know that I&#8217;m pretty good at digging historical things up, at shining lights under long-unmoved archival rocks. Well&#8230; my challenge this week was to find some mid-Quattrocento Milanese enciphered letters, and though I&#8217;ve possibly got most of the way to an answer, I&#8217;ve ended up a bit stuck, and would [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Book That Can&#8217;t Be Read&#8221; Voynich documentary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;. But actually, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;.
But actually, the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Naked Science&#8221; Nat Geo Voynich documentary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/08/naked-science-nat-geo-voynich-documentary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/08/naked-science-nat-geo-voynich-documentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week  (3rd February 2011) saw the US premiere of &#8220;The Book That Can&#8217;t Be Read&#8221;, the long-awaited National Geographic channel airing of the recent ORF documentary on the Voynich Manuscript. Though it prominently features the benign beardiness of everyone&#8217;s favourite Voynich expert Rene Zandbergen, for a pleasant change the star of the show is undoubtedly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week  (3rd February 2011) saw the US premiere of &#8220;The Book That Can&#8217;t Be Read&#8221;, the long-awaited National Geographic channel airing of the recent ORF documentary on the Voynich Manuscript. Though it prominently features the benign beardiness of everyone&#8217;s favourite Voynich expert Rene Zandbergen, for a pleasant change the star of the show is undoubtedly [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Well, here&#8217;s where the answer may be found&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/17/well-heres-where-the-answer-may-be-found</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/17/well-heres-where-the-answer-may-be-found#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byzantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcello Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch. You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch.
You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told them [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A miscellany of nine-rosette links&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/29/a-miscellany-of-nine-rosette-links</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/29/a-miscellany-of-nine-rosette-links#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 09:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard SantaColoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tycho Brahe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, constructing plausible explanations for the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript is a fairly straightforward exercise. Even its apparently-weird botany could well be subtly rational (for example, if plants on opposite pages swapped their roots over in the original binding, in a kind of visual anagram), as could the astronomy, the astrology, and the water [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the most part, constructing plausible explanations for the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript is a fairly straightforward exercise. Even its apparently-weird botany could well be subtly rational (for example, if plants on opposite pages swapped their roots over in the original binding, in a kind of visual anagram), as could the astronomy, the astrology, and the water [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A little more on Savoy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/17/a-little-more-on-savoy</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/17/a-little-more-on-savoy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 10:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holy Roman Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps because of its geography (spanning a mountain range) or its powerful neighbours (France, Milan), Savoy is one of those nebulous, hard-to-grasp historical regions with a perimeter seemingly made of rubber. Here&#8217;s a map of 15th century Savoy courtesy of the very useful sabaudia.org: as landmarks, you can see Milan, Turin, Genoa and Lyon &#8211; just off [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Perhaps because of its geography (spanning a mountain range) or its powerful neighbours (France, Milan), Savoy is one of those nebulous, hard-to-grasp historical regions with a perimeter seemingly made of rubber.
Here&#8217;s a map of 15th century Savoy courtesy of the very useful sabaudia.org: as landmarks, you can see Milan, Turin, Genoa and Lyon &#8211; just off to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Savoy palaeography: was michiton originally nichil?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/04/savoy-palaeography-was-michiton-originally-nichil</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/04/savoy-palaeography-was-michiton-originally-nichil#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 09:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because of the lack of satisfactory evidence to work with, there are two basic Voynich research methodologies: concrete (which focus on those miserably few things we know about the VMs); and speculative (which try to determine which of the quadrillion possible explanations for the VMs are most inherently plausible). In line with the first of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Because of the lack of satisfactory evidence to work with, there are two basic Voynich research methodologies:

concrete (which focus on those miserably few things we know about the VMs); and
speculative (which try to determine which of the quadrillion possible explanations for the VMs are most inherently plausible).

In line with the first of the two, I&#8217;ve spent [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Voynich Averlino hypothesis&#8221; summary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/10/voynich-averlino-hypothesis-summary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/10/voynich-averlino-hypothesis-summary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cicco Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days, several people have independently asked me to summarize my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; Voynich Manuscript theory (that it is an enciphered copy of Antonio Averlino [Filarete]&#8216;s lost books of secrets). Good theories generally improve when you retell them a few times: for example, back when I was first pitching my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the last few days, several people have independently asked me to summarize my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; Voynich Manuscript theory (that it is an enciphered copy of Antonio Averlino [Filarete]&#8216;s lost books of secrets). Good theories generally improve when you retell them a few times: for example, back when I was first pitching my [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pre-1450 German Voynich possibility&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/18/pre-1450-german-voynich-possibility</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/18/pre-1450-german-voynich-possibility#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volkhard Huth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Austrian Voynich documentary gave a nice clear radiocarbon dating (1404-1438 at 95% confidence) for the vellum, and finished by suggesting (based on the swallow-tail merlons on the nine-rosette castle) a Northern Italian origin for the manuscript. But I have to say that as art history proofs go, that last bit is a little bit, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The recent Austrian Voynich documentary gave a nice clear radiocarbon dating (1404-1438 at 95% confidence) for the vellum, and finished by suggesting (based on the swallow-tail merlons on the nine-rosette castle) a Northern Italian origin for the manuscript. But I have to say that as art history proofs go, that last bit is a little bit, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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