{"id":45910,"date":"2020-08-17T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=45910"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:05:26","slug":"dascanio-alfonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dascanio-alfonso\/","title":{"rendered":"d&#8217;Ascanio, Alfonso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><strong>Alfonso<\/strong><\/a><strong> d&#8217;Ascanio <\/strong>is a Spanish legal expert with a long-standing interest in Plato&#8217;s Atlantis. He is the author of <em>El naufrago del <em>Jul\u00e1n<\/em> <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"#A1734\">1734<\/a>]<\/sup><em>, <\/em>which is a novel that explores the history of the Canaries and the origins of its <a href=\"#Guanches\">Guanche<\/a> inhabitants. His grandfather published a book in 1922 which investigates the geology of the Canaries. His father, also Alfonso d&#8217;Ascanio, was preparing to finish a book in the late 1950&#8217;s<sup>(a)<\/sup>, which was intended to demonstrate that Atlantis had been situated in the Atlantic, where its remnants are now the <a href=\"#Macaronesia\">Macaronesian<\/a> groups of islands (<a href=\"#CanaryIslands\">Canaries<\/a>, <a href=\"#Azores\">Azores<\/a>, <a href=\"#Madeira\">Madeira<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"#CapeVerde\">Cape Verde<\/a>). D&#8217;Ascanio snr also contributed to <a href=\"#SykesE\">Egerton Sykes<\/a>&#8216; <em>Atlantis<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <em>Atlantis<\/em>, Vol.12, No.1, Nov\/Dec 1958<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfonso d&#8217;Ascanio is a Spanish legal expert with a long-standing interest in Plato&#8217;s Atlantis. He is the author of El naufrago del Jul\u00e1n [1734], which is a novel that explores the history of the Canaries and the origins of its Guanche inhabitants. His grandfather published a book in 1922 which investigates the geology of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[29,28,58,265,193,6443,314],"class_list":["post-45910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-azores","tag-canaries","tag-cape-verde","tag-egerton-sykes","tag-guanches","tag-macaronesian","tag-madeira"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45910","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64077,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45910\/revisions\/64077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}