Shakespeare - coded messages
Shakespeare was Italian
He had pilfered not only the stage name, but also the works of two Italian emigrants, Michelangelo and Giovanni Florio, father and son.
The year 2016 is the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death
In reality, it was an illiterate actor who died in 1616
He had pilfered not only the stage name, but also the works of two Italian emigrants, Michelangelo and Giovanni Florio, father and son.
They had come to England because of the Inquisition
In particular, Giovanni, known as John in England, enlarged, embellished and translated into English the theatrical plots written by his father in the Tuscan language.
It is not necessary to prove my point by examining in depth all the published “works” of the greatest playwright in history, because a few will suffice.
Sometimes, the more there is published about an author, the less we learn about his life, if this life is based on a lie.
In a court of law, the truth can be hidden in two ways: through reticence or through a torrent of words that can be a false truth.
All the biographies of Shakespeare, without exception, which begin from the supposition, no longer tolerable, that the illiterate actor is the author of the plays and sonnets known worldwide, are based on false testimony
The truth is provable in a much easier way than what we have been led to believe, up to now, by the “great” official biographers.
In the last four centuries many documents have been falsified and many possibly destroyed, documents that would have led to the different and real truth we can prove today.
As we have been told and heard many times, there is no perfect crime.
Who would have imagined that hidden in regular words there are coded messages, in phrases stupid or meaningless,  information directed to the few able to decipher them?
The messages, once decoded, will finally clarify who was behind the name William Shakespeare.
In the school books, the encyclopedias or in the many biographies of William Shakespeare, the adverb 'probably' recurs constantly
... probably he attended the local school, probably he was a schoolteacher, probably he was a horse keeper when he arrived in London, and so forth.
Shakespeare’s relations with his contemporaries were only relations with a name, not a man.
Nobody knew William Shakespeare personally, for the simple reason that the name Shakespeare, as we have said, was a stage name
This pseudonym was given later, fraudulently, to an actor of Stratford on Avon who had the only merit of having acted in, or funded, the tragedies of the real Shakespeare
Let's stop for a moment and talk about this illiterate man that unfortunately England celebrates as the greatest playwright of all time four centuries after his death.
Paradoxically, we do not  know his exact name.  But we know that his birthday, April 26, which strangely coincides with the date of his death(this is also the day on which the British celebrate St. George, patron saint of England), was a posthumous invention.
What is not an invention is the birthplace of the actor, Stratford on Avon, his marriage to Anne Hathaway, eight years older, the birth of his sons, his work as a grain trader.
These are real facts but irrelevant to the person made up by biographers to provide a link to the production of the works, which is pure invention.
There is no evidence, in fact, that he attended the local school, and we know instead that he was born into a family of illiterate people, in a culturally poor village, with an elementary scholastic education.
The father and mother did not know how to write and signed their signatures with an “x”, and his two daughters were unable to read and write.
There are only six uncertain and shaky signatures attributed to him and the reason is due to a clumsy attempt to falsify the signature of the person who was the real Shakespeare.
In the actor’s modest last will and testament, also written by a lawyer, there is not a single mention about his activity as a writer, or the least reference to a work or a book in his possession
The doubts about Shakespeare’s identity are not new.  The writer Henry James called the divine William “the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world”.
As it is common knowledge, we define Stratfordians as the scholars who see the man born in Stratford-on-Avon the author of the immortal plays.
Other interpretations see Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon and others.
Although there is evidence that the author of 36 dramas collected in the First Folio of 1623 is not the man of Stratford, the orthodox critique insists on his legitimacy with flimsy arguments, opposing even other British candidates.
This willing blindness of the Stratfordian academics is probably due to fear that if they open up to the comparison the truth will come out, namely that the true author of Shakespeare's plays is not English but Italian.
According to recent studies by scholars not attached to the Anglo-Saxon world and the powerful cultural institutions funded by the English State, Shakespeare was a man who thought in Italian and wrote in English
Everybody knows that many Italian names initially present in his plays have been changed or Anglicized over time.
An example is the comedy “Measure for Measure”, whose history, we now know, is not placed in Vienna, as it is written, but in Ferrara
The hypothesis that Shakespeare was Italian was advanced for the first time by Santi Paladino, an Italian journalist from Calabria.
On February 4, 1927 he published in “The Empire”, a pro-government newspaper, an article in which he argued that the name Shakespeare was the pseudonym of the Italian poet and reformer Michelangelo Florio
Paladino is said to have arrived at this conclusion after finding inside his father's extensive and aristocratic library a volume published in 1549 written by the same Florio in which there were  sayings and proverbs that about 50 years later would appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet
The books dedicated to the Florios remained for years on the margins of the official culture, perhaps because the two Italians were considered minor authors in the Elizabethan age.
Only recently has the academia been speaking about them.
Apart from the increasing publications in which it is stated that the actor of Stratford could not have written the plays attributed to him, in 2008 Lamberto Tassinari and Saul Gerevini with their respective studies revived the idea that the Florios were the true authors of the dramas attributed to William Shakespeare
Gerevini has also founded, with other scholars, an academy of studies about the Florios.
In particular, one of those scholars, Corrado Panzieri, has conducted, for over twenty years, research in the historical archives in Italy and England.
Meanwhile let’s explore more intimately who the Florios really were
Michelangelo Florio, called “the Florentine”, was born in Lucca around 1518.  He was a Franciscan friar with an encyclopedic knowledge and a great linguistic proficiency
Refined intellectual, he went preaching throughout the whole of Italy under the name of friar Paolo Antonio
In 1548 he was caught in the web of the Inquisitors and incarcerated in a Roman prison
Here he stayed 27 months, but escaped before his execution.  In 1550 he went to London where, once converted to the Evangelical faith, he became an Italian preacher
His culture was such that he was welcomed and  immediately feted in aristocratic circles.
In a few months he was invited to the court of King Edward VI and soon became tutor to the offspring of English nobility, including the future Queen Elizabeth
He was particularly attached to the young student Jane Grey who became Queen for only nine days before she was executed
In this first stay in England an incident stained Michelangelo Florio’s reputation because he had an affair with a woman outside of marriage
He risked losing the protection of the powerful William Cecil, Secretary of State, and possibly being sent back to Italy, but he was eventually forgiven.
He had a son in 1553, John, with a woman he later married.
The following year, King Edward died and Catholicism returned to England with Mary Tudor.
The preacher was forced to leave the country that had hosted him
He fled with his family to Soglio, a village in Switzerland, where Michelango not only continued preaching, but where he also worked as a notary
In Soglio he wrote several essays, including “Michel Agnolo Fiorentino’s Apology”, through which we learn some important biographical notes about him
He participated in the debate on Reform, renewed his interest in the Italian language and personally devoted himself to the education of his child John
Once he reached adolescence, John studied at the University of Tübingen and then at various Italian universities but he did not graduate
With the rise of Elizabeth I in England, father and son returned to London.  Here Michelangelo remained under wraps, for fear of being re-taken by the Inquisitors, devoting himself entirely to writing
John became a tutor and worked as a translator and lawyer in the French Embassy, where he became friendly with Giordano Bruno, a guest in the same embassy from 1583 to 1585.
John published “First fruits” in 1578, a bilingual manual of Italian-English, accompanied by an Italian grammar
He also translated several Italian works.
Two years later he married Rose Daniel, sister of the poet Samuel Daniel
Subsequently, the translator became a friend of well-known and prestigious intellectuals, such as Philip Sidney, poet and courtier, author of the novel “Arcadia”, which Florio read and opined on
Sidney introduced the Italian to an exclusive club, “The School of night”, whose members, some of the greatest exponents of English culture, were interested in giving answers on the more hidden aspects of human existence
In 1591 John published another manual, “Seconds fruits” with an appendix in which he added about 6,000 Italian proverbs collected by his father Michelangelo in Italy
Beginning with this publication, John added the prefix “Resolute” to his name
From this day on he will sign his works Resolute John Florio
In 1598 he published “A world of words”, the first, authentic modern Italian-English dictionary, which he began around 1590, an extraordinary work for its wealth of terms, more than 46,000 Italian words, 74,000 in the reprint and 150,000 English words
Simultaneously, while writing and preparing his dictionary, John worked on the translation of the “Essays of Montagne”, published in 1603, probably one of the most influential books ever published in England
Michelangelo Florio died in 1605
John continued his social ascendancy, and with the accession to the throne of James I John became tutor to the children of the King, and Queen Anne’s secretary
As a sign of the esteem he had for James I, John Florio translated into Italian the sovereign’s writing, “Basilikon Doron” (Royal Gift) that became important to many works of Shakespeare
In 1612 the sudden death of Prince Henry, who would have been the future king of England, caused John incredible sorrow
Seven years later, in 1619, with Queen Anne’s death, Florio was exiled from the court
In the last years of his life John translated into English the stories of Boccaccio and put together the “First Folio”, where he gathered all his works, signed William Shakespeare
Afterwards, he retired to Fulham, on the outskirts of London, where he remained until he died of the plague in 1625
John Florio’s last will and testament, written in the year of his death, reveals an incredible affinity and similarity to the writings and thinking of Shakespeare
It has been shown that in the Bard’s plays there appears Dante’s language and a deep knowledge of the Divine Comedy
At the time of the composition of the works signed Shakespeare, only John Florio had such knowledge
THE FIRST complete translation of Dante in the English language will not appear for two more centuries
