{"id":3491,"date":"2010-06-09T06:19:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T06:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kolosimo-peter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:29:25","slug":"kolosimo-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kolosimo-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolosimo, Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Peter-Kolosimo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27952 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Peter-Kolosimo-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Kolosimo\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Peter-Kolosimo-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Peter-Kolosimo.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter <\/strong><strong>K<\/strong><strong>olosimo <\/strong><strong>(1922-1984) <\/strong>was the <em>nom de plume<\/em> of Pier Domenico Colosimo, an Italian writer who can be said to have paved the way for the better-known <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/daniken-erich-von\/\">Erich von D\u00e4niken<\/a> and their promotion of \u2018ancient astronaut\u2019 theories. Kolosimo won a literary prize for his <em>N<\/em><em>on \u00e8 <\/em><em>t<\/em><em>errestre,<\/em> published in English as <em>N<\/em><em>ot of <\/em><em>T<\/em><em>his <\/em><em>W<\/em><em>orld<\/em><em>.<\/em> In the same book, which can be borrowed online <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\"><sup>427<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+<\/span><\/strong><\/sup>, he supported the idea of an Atlantic location for Atlantis, drawing heavily on the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/zhirov-nicolai-feodosyevich\/\">Nicolai Zhirov<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/colavito-jason-n\/\">Jason Colavito<\/a> has written a highly critical review<sup>(a)<\/sup> of Kolosimo\u2019s book<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">in four parts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>[<\/sup><sup>427<\/sup><sup>]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+ <\/span><\/strong><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/notofthisworld00kolo\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/notofthisworld00kolo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/1\/post\/2014\/02\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-pt-1.html\">https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/1\/post\/2014\/02\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-pt-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><sup>(b) <\/sup> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-pt-2-in-which-the-cthulhu-mythos-is-taken-as-real\">https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-pt-2-in-which-the-cthulhu-mythos-is-taken-as-real<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><sup>(c) <\/sup> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-pt-3\">https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-pt-3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><sup>(d) <\/sup> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-last-part\">https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/review-of-peter-kolosimos-not-of-this-world-last-part<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Kolosimo (1922-1984) was the nom de plume of Pier Domenico Colosimo, an Italian writer who can be said to have paved the way for the better-known Erich von D\u00e4niken and their promotion of \u2018ancient astronaut\u2019 theories. Kolosimo won a literary prize for his Non \u00e8 terrestre, published in English as Not of This World. 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