[Talk] Alain Touwaide - Villa Mondragone - 14 Oct. 2019

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The last sentences in the article (by Alain Touwaide) are interesting.

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For Formica, the book represents a "unicum" worldwide and it would be wrong to consider it "meaningless". Among the pages of the manuscript there are alternating drawings of plants, which would make us lean towards a herbarium, and images of a religious nature, which instead call into question the entire stylistic structure. "In the Voynich I find a coherence, but above all an incoherence. The manuscript borrows some iconographic motifs, but assembles them in figures that are not realistic. So, there is a coherence from the point of view of iconographic language, but an incoherence in the assembly. And it is this aspect that makes me say that it was not a herbarium to be used in medical practice, but a creation, a caricature, an imitation, a game", explained Touwaide.

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