Excerpt from The Cryptography of Dante
Except for the discussions, in various commentaries, of the Dxv in Purgatorio xxxiii and of the acrostic VOM in Purgatorio xii, I know of no recognition of the existence of cryptograms in the Divina Commedia. For general information on the subject of cryptography I may refer to the article on Akrostichis in Pauly: Encyclop?die der Classishen Altertumswissenschaft; the article on Acrostic in Hastings: Encyclop?dia of Religion and Ethics; the article on Ciphers in Rees's Encyclop?dia; C. W. King: The Gnostics and Their Remains; Francis Bacon: Of the Advancement of Learning; Walter Begley: Biblia Cabalistica; Is it Shakespeare?; and Bacon's Nova Resuscitatio; and W. S. Booth: Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis Bacon and The Hidden Signatures of Francesco Colonna and Francis Bacon. A widely recognized authority which I have been unable to consult is Kryptographik, by J. L. Kluber.
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