Frascati

So I always get a lot of nostalgia when I speak and I want to come back to New York.

And actually, where are you? I'm based near Rome in a small town called Frascati where we are quite specialists of having fun because it's just basically restaurants and wineries.

And most of the times people come here to have fun.

Okay, so no one feels bad for you.

To date, 11 people have died inside of that cave.

Midday on June 10th, 1981, an Italian man and a six-year-old son walked to the edge of their property in Frascati, which is an area in Italy known as the hub of Rome's local wine industry.

The father needed to repair a section of their fence, and his son, who he said had the soul of Huckleberry Finn, wanted to tag along.

But as soon as the work began, Alfredo just wanted to go play in the vineyards, and so he ran off.

So worked on the European Space Agency.

So lived in Italy for a couple of years at Frascati.

Did a lot in APAC.

Did a lot, well, GCHQ, CSG in my day.

Certain characters only ever appear at the beginning of a word, and others only at the end, a level of regularity rarely seen in European languages.

Now, the manuscript's history begins with a man named Wilfred Wojnicz, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912 from the Jesuit college at Frascati, Italy.

Inside the book was a letter dated 1665 from Johannes Marcus Marcy, a rector of Charles University in Prague.

The letter claimed the book had once belonged to Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, who bought it for 600 gold ducats, which was an immense sum at the time, believing it to be the work of the 13th century polymath Roger Bacon.

Certain characters only ever appear at the beginning of a word, and others only at the end, a level of regularity rarely seen in European languages.

Now, the manuscript's history begins with a man named Wilfred Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912 from the Jesuit College at Frascati, Italy.

Inside the book was a letter dated 1665 from Johannes Marcus Marci, a rector of Charles University in Prague.

The letter claimed the book had once belonged to Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, who bought it for 600 gold ducats, which was an immense sum at the time, believing it to be the work of the 13th century polymath Roger Bacon.

Manuscripts moved along those routes the way emails move through servers.

somewhere along that jesuit chain the voynich manuscript enters the collegio romano library in rome we don't have the exact accession record but by the nineteenth century it is essentially hiding in plain sight as part of the jesuit collections When the new Italian state seizes many church properties, the Jesuits quietly stash certain items with the Villa Mondragone, a college near Frascati.

That's where Wilfred Voynich eventually finds the manuscript in 1912.

So the rough paper trail looks like this.

Certain characters only ever appear at the beginning of a word and others only at the end, a level of regularity rarely seen in European languages.

Now, the manuscript's history begins with a man named Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in nineteen twelve from the Jesuit College at Frascati, Italy.

Inside the book was a letter dated sixteen sixty-five from Johannes Marcus Marci, a rector of Charles University in Prague.

The letter claimed the book had once belonged to Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, who bought it for six hundred gold ducats, which was an immense sum at the time, believing it to be the work of the thirteenth-century polymath Roger Bacon.