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IMAGE: The manuscripts include arias that were foundational in the history of opera a genre that emerged in the early seventeenth century. view more
Credit: Michel Garrett, Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. In 1916 and 1917, a musician and book dealer named Giovanni Concina sold three ornately decorated seventeenth-century songbooks to a library in Venice, Italy. Now, more than 100 years later, a musicologist at Penn State has discovered that the manuscripts are fakes, meticulously crafted to appear old but actually fabricated just prior to their sale to the library. The manuscripts are rare among music forgeries in that the songs are authentic, but the books are counterfeit.
Archivist Alessandra Schiavon unrolls a supposed 14th century text on the founding of Venice in an April Fool s day video released by the Archivio di Stato di Venezia and the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Six serious Italian scholars have perpetrated a delicious April Fool’s prank relating to the date on which Venice was supposedly founded: 25 March 421.
On 25 March, the city’s 1,600th anniversary began to be commemorated in pomp and circumstance with a mass in the Basilica of St Mark’s, the ringing of all the bells of Venice, a message from the president of Italy and 230 proposals to the organising committee of events for the rest of the year.
The Zeno Map
The Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, in St. Mark s Square, holds a book dated to 1558,
Dello Scoprimento dell’Isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engroneland, Estotiland et Icaria fatto sotto il Polo Artico da due fratelli Zeni , (
About the discovering of the islands of Frisland, Esland, Engroneland, Estotiland et Icaria made under the Arctic Pole by two Zeno brothers ) published by Francesco Marcolini. In the introduction he explains that the narrative was written by Nicolò Zeno the Younger, great-nephew of Antonio and Nicolò Zeno, the two navigators whose travels are described in the text. Nicolò Zeno the Younger reports that he found five long letters of his ancestors in the family library and that he was able to proceed with a careful editing of their story, adding parts of the missing text on his own to connect the passages of the letters. With regret he adds that, having found them as a child in the family library and not comprehending their value he had irreparabl
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