The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery by Ingrid D. Rowland

The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery

Ingrid D. Rowland

192 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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Bored teenager Curzio Inghirami staged perhaps the most outlandish prank of the seventeenth century when he hatched a wild scheme that preyed on the Italian fixation with ancestry by forging an array of ancient Latin and Etruscan documents. Stashi...

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