[Article] Solved again...

[Emma May Smith]

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Gems like this are rare:

Figure 60 shows a detail from an official letter by Alfonso V, for comparison with De Rosa. It reads: Alfonsus dei gracia Rex Aragome (Alfonzo of the gracious, King of Aragon: Italian, Spanish, Old Portuguese)

Of course the fragment reads "Alfonsus dei gratia Rex Aragonum" and the translation is Alfonse, King of the Aragonese, by the grace of God. It is not "Italian, Spanish, Old Portuguese" but plain and simple Latin.
The fact that the guy cannot read the final -um, where the macron appears as a curl-like ligature, is not surprising: he also fails to correctly interpret the macrons in the VMS month names. 

That he interprets the obvious Latin "dei" (of God) as the Italian "dei" (of the) is pure genius  

What's worse is that this guy is English. The motto he's struggling with isn't even some historical curiosity in England. If he has even looked at a coin in his life he would see "ELIZABETH II DEI GRA REG" stamped on it. Every school child is taught what the inscription on a coin means: Elizabeth II, queen by the grace of god.