Volume 52, Number 3 · February 24, 2005
A Scandal in Etruria
By Joseph Connors
The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
by Ingrid D. Rowland
University of Chicago Press, 230 pp., $22.50
Ingrid Rowland's remarkable book about an Etruscan forgery in the age of Galileo begins at Scornello, a hilltop near Volterra, the most isolated of all the cities of Tuscany, lying in the middle of a triangle running from Florence to Siena and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Though a real place, Scornello is not to be found even on large-scale maps. But between 1634 and 1636 a nineteen-year-old Tuscan nobleman, Curzio Inghirami, scion of an old Volterran family, made it famous among the learned all over Europe.
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