When professor V. Marchis told us about "
La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo" by Tommaso Garzoni,last week, and suggested a research inside of its list of occupations duringof the rinascimental period to see if there were ancestors of our blog carachters, I was actually quite skeptical about the results of my search, but never say never in life!! I found a match in the very first page of the list even if it took quite a while to understand the font and words but here I am, so... enjoy these extract..
The paragraph regarding Ciphers starts from "Scriurono.." and it talks about coded messages, hidden messages under wax layer, or written on some messenger's head (similar techniques were already discussed in the post entitled
Coded Messages), or with particular inks that would have become visible after executing of a certain procedure...
