The Scarith of Scornello
A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

I. Discovery: November 1634
II. The Investigation: 1635
III. The Spy: 1638
IV. About Paper: 1635-1640
V. The Defender Defended: 1641
VI. Curzio Attacks: 1645
VII. A Forger’s Reasons: 1640s
VIII. The Sublime Art
IX. Eppur si muove: 1966
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"Rowland skillfully weaves her way through this long-forgotten controversy, framing it within the cultural and political struggles between Rome and Tuscany, and the larger intellectual debates of the period. At every turn she provides fascinating detail about the workings of the scholarly world . . . In a mere 150 pages . . .she summons up a world and an age."
"With consummate skill and learning, Rowland has used this sometimes hilarious but always engrossing story to anatomise a fascinating period in Italian cultural politics. Her lucid and accessible narrative also shows how the animated discussion of the contents of Inghirami’s scarith helped to stimulate the genuine investigation of Etruscan civilisation that is still in progress today. For anyone with Etruscan or seventeenth-century Tuscan interests, reading this elegant book should have the beneficial effect of drinking a glass of the best Chianti."
MLA: Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies
Honorable Mention
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