Lyle Jennings Colombo: Two First Folio Poems and Three Other Texts Encrypted by John Dee

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This presentation demonstrates that Ben Jonson's First Folio poem "To the Reader," the Shakespeare funerary monument at Stratford, and three other texts concerning Shakespeare were encrypted by the Renaissance polymath John Dee using a previously unknown variant of a Cardano Grille cipher. Lyle Jennings Colombo has discovered that Dee's name is encoded three times in each of these texts, and presents multiple proofs that his signatures do not occur randomly but by design. Moreover, four of the texts contain an encryption rule that explicitly instructs us to look for "three Dees."
The signatures do not merely identify Dee as the cryptographer but they also form an essential part of the cryptograms' infrastructure with each signature strategically positioned to demarcate the messages concealed in the works. The messages unambiguously state that the author of Shakespeare's works was Edward de Vere. Any one of these encryptions would be enough to take the case for Edward de Vere's authorship of the plays and poems beyond simply evidence and into the realm of definitive proof. The discovery of these multiple texts in which the same unique cryptographic system is used to encode the same messages is difficult to ignore.
Lyle's handout is available here: shakespeareoxfordfellowship.o...
Bio: Lyle Jennings Colombo did her doctoral studies in philosophy at Tulane University and the Free University of Berlin. She taught philosophy at Loyola University, New Orleans, and currently lectures on creative writing and literature in Tulane University's First Year Experience and Honors Scholars programs. Her publications include articles in the journals Existentia and Heidegger Studies, as well as translations from German into English. She has presented papers on 20th century German philosophy and archaeological theory in the US and Europe. Fairly new to the authorship question, she is now a member of both the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship and the De Vere Society. Dr. Colombo also organized this week’s interdisciplinary panel discussion on the authorship question sponsored by Tulane’s Newcomb Institute.

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15 янв 2024

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@tedwong6605 5 месяцев назад

Thank you very much indeed. It is wonderful to see how brick by brick, scholars are erecting the monument to de Vere as the truly great writer.

@jorgelinenberg2791 5 месяцев назад

Astonishing presentation, Dr. Colombo. I'm your admirer from now on.

@MAMPMBA 4 месяца назад

Brilliant, been admirer of Waugh; trying our the Cardano grilles at my desk…but you made it so clear!

@jancole9100 5 месяцев назад

Many thanks for a very clear and understandable account. The date of John Dee’s death in 1608/1609 is not a problem. There was clearly an inner circle of de Vere relatives who had known Dee and were privy to the knowledge that Edward de Vere was the author behind the pseudonym of William Shakespeare. These people would have ensured Dee’s encryption work went forward. Note the dates of death of the following members of this inner circle, which extend far beyond the publication dates of the Sonnets (1609), the death of W. Shakespeare (1616), and the publication of the First Folio (1623). Percival Golding (1579-1635), son of Arthur Golding (died 1606), stated and confirmed that Edward de Vere was buried at Westminster in his unpublished account of the de Vere family (undated but written about 1619): “Edward de Vere, only son of John, born the twelfth day of April, Anno 1550, Earle of Oxenford, High Chamberlain, Lord Bolebec, Sandford and Badlesmere, Steward of the Forest in Essex, and of the Privy Council to the King Majesty that now is. Of whom I will only speak what all men’s voices confirm: He was a man in mind and body absolutely accomplished with honorable endowments. He died at his house at Hackney in the month of June, Anno 1604, and lieth buried at Westminster.” (BM Harleian MS 4189) Percival took over the publication of his father’s work after Arthur’s death and was familiar with many London printers, almost certainly including those who produced the First Folio. He also lived in the parish of St Bartholomew’s in London as a neighbour of Edward de Vere’s uncle, Horatio de Vere (d. 1635). Dee mentioned knowing Arthur Golding personally in his diary for 30 September 1597 and is likely to have known the young Percival (aged 20 in 1609). After Dee moved to Manchester, he also mentions more than once that he dined with Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, eldest daughter of Edward de Vere (she died in 1627). Those who were “in the know” ensured that the secret encryptions went into print and into the public domain at Stratford-on-Avon long after Dee's death.

@mancroft 5 месяцев назад

Excellent explanation. Thank you.

@duncanmckeown1292 4 месяца назад

I find this fascinating...as I did Waugh's earlier detective work. Quite convincing. I only have one nagging problem. Dee died somewhere around the beginning of 1609...before the publication of the sonnets...and well before the First Folio in 1623. I can accept that he might have done the work on the sonnets before his death...but this would indicate that de Vere was already buried at Westminster Abbey by 1609. I believe Waugh thinks that this interment occurred around 1616? Unless of course this was just a plan for future action. The Folio encryptions must surely have been placed there by a follower of Dee's methodology? Perhaps Jonson himself, who was a talented cryptologist by all accounts, or maybe Bacon?

@ibelieveican3138 3 месяца назад

Brilliant!

@T0varisch 5 месяцев назад

Well done. There are two corroborating Delta dots to Alex's discovery on the title page. I think there's a hidden inverted fourth also. There are three factors that weigh in on the grid solution of the sonnets. 1. Almost everything is in a T, a vertically symmetrical and connected shape. This radically changes the combinatorics. 2. The sheer density of course, there are about 10. 3. It's 146 specific characters that have "puzzle" as good as written on it. This also cuts the problem space down. The Stratford stone is only half done. While I don't dispute the key, it's actually not too hard to do. Any of us could do it with a bag of Scrabble letters. There is something big in there we haven't found. The curst be is definitely not done, well done for exploring that. There is a TTT grid in almost any block of 150 characters or more. Be very careful dealing with three character codes. There are only three valid right angled triangles of Green's design. You can't have Brun's constant, maths isn't natural philosophy. There is only one pristine copy of the Sonnets, at the Folger. It must have been the first. Perhaps it's Dee's dying work, who knows. There's a fantastic quote of his in the reprinting of I think it's the astronomy book with him bollocking the printers for not being able to copy a form like a Lazer printer. He obviously didn't leave any proper instructions, that would have been divulging god's secret.

@Nope.Unknown 5 месяцев назад

Wonderful!!!!

@trishh7773 4 месяца назад

Amazing

@vetstadiumastroturf5756 Месяц назад

Anagrams Never Before Imprinted = De Vere In Tomb Fire Pen R (R = 17) Never Before Imprinted = De Vere in Tomb Pen Firre (Firre is Forty in Danish) Never Before Imprinted = Mente Videbor Fire Pen R (By the Mind I Will Be Seen - Fire Pen 17) Never Before Imprinted = Mente Videbor Firre Pen (By the Mind I Will Be Seen - Pen Forty)