{"id":1405,"date":"2010-05-20T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bettini-leonardo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:18:54","slug":"bettini-leonardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bettini-leonardo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettini, Leonardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leonardo <\/strong><strong>B<\/strong><strong>ettini (1939-1982)\u00a0<\/strong>was a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sykes-j-egerton-%e2%80%98bill%e2%80%99\/\">Egerton Sykes\u2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-research-centre\/\">Atlantis Research Centre<\/a> and was\u00a0the author of\u00a0&#8220;<em>The Italian<\/em> <em>Atlantis&#8221;<\/em> published in Genoa, in 1963.He suggested that the Atlantis narrative had a Phoenician, rather than a Greek origin<sup>(a)<\/sup>. He also favoured a <a href=\"#CaribbeanAtlantis\">Caribbean<\/a> location for Plato\u2019s island.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Bettini was also something of a political anarchist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <em>Atlantis<\/em>, Vol.16, No.2, April 1963<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo Bettini (1939-1982)\u00a0was a member of Egerton Sykes\u2019 Atlantis Research Centre and was\u00a0the author of\u00a0&#8220;The Italian Atlantis&#8221; published in Genoa, in 1963.He suggested that the Atlantis narrative had a Phoenician, rather than a Greek origin(a). He also favoured a Caribbean location for Plato\u2019s island. &nbsp; Bettini was also something of a political anarchist. (a) Atlantis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2356,21,265,4577],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis-research-centre","tag-caribbean","tag-egerton-sykes","tag-leonardo-bettini"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65707,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/65707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}