December 17, 2004
The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
Curzio Inghirami, a young Tuscan nobleman, preferred history to law. So he invented it.
His creation of the past began an autumn day in 1634. As Ingrid D. Rowland recounts in The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (University of Chicago Press), the 19-year-old was at the river below his family's hilltop villa, Scornello, south of the Tuscan city of Volterra. Throwing stones down the bank, he said, he dislodged a clod of earth that revealed a capsule made of mud mixed
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