The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Incidentally, I do not understand why, in a predominantly English speaking forum, the Kircher-correspondence keeps being referred to by the Italian word "carteggio". To over-inflate its importance? In plain English, a "carteggio" is a "correspondence".

Well, "correspondence" is a generic term that means any letter that Kircher recieved or sent.  The Carteggio is specifically the set of letters bound together in those N volumes at whatever library they are in now.

We do often use Latin or other-language names for certain manuscripts...

All the best, --stolfi