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    NEWS September 2023

    September 2023. Hi Atlantipedes, At present I am in Sardinia for a short visit. Later we move to Sicily and Malta. The trip is purely vacational. Unfortunately, I am writing this in a dreadful apartment, sitting on a bed, with access to just one useable socket and a small Notebook. Consequently, I possibly will not […]Read More »
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    Joining The Dots

    I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
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Fracastoro, Girolamo

FracastoroGirolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), was an Italian physician born in Verona. He is credited with writing, in 1530, the first treatise on syphilis, in a three-volume poem, Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus (Syphilis or the French Disease).(a)*Around the same time, Fracastoro identified the then recently discovered Americas as Atlantis,

connecting the origin of the New World people with Atlas and Atlantis.”(b) and furthermore in the first story he “illustrates the voyage of Cristoforo Colombo in the West Indies, where the disease (syphilis) was overwhelming among the natives because of a curse from the gods of the lost city of Atlantis.”(c)*

(a) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1657561/?page=4

(b) https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=79201

(c) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631234/