{"id":29100,"date":"2015-12-09T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T08:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29100"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:04:25","slug":"calestani-vittorio-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/calestani-vittorio-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Calestani, Vittorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vittorio<\/strong><strong> Calestani <\/strong><strong>(1882-1949) <\/strong>was an Italian naturalist, ethnologist and meteorologist. A newspaper account<sup>(a)<\/sup> in May 1939, reported that Calestani considered <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/britain\/\">Great Britain <\/a>as Plato&#8217;s Atlantis. His opinion was based on rather flimsy arguments and is far from convincing. I also note that he gave a lecture entitled <em>l&#8217;Atlantide <\/em>in 1946 at the Universit\u00e0 Popolare di Venezia.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/174249898?searchTerm=Atlantis&amp;searchLimits=l-availability=y\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/174249898?searchTerm=Atlantis&amp;searchLimits=l-availability=y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>^(Taken from the<em> Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, Boston)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vittorio Calestani (1882-1949) was an Italian naturalist, ethnologist and meteorologist. A newspaper account(a) in May 1939, reported that Calestani considered Great Britain as Plato&#8217;s Atlantis. His opinion was based on rather flimsy arguments and is far from convincing. I also note that he gave a lecture entitled l&#8217;Atlantide in 1946 at the Universit\u00e0 Popolare di [&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":[2259,290,132,4351],"class_list":["post-29100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-britain","tag-plato","tag-vittorio-calestani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100","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=29100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65917,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100\/revisions\/65917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}