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Paperback Labyrinth of Ruins: Francis Bacon's Encrypted Sonnet Sequence Book

ISBN: 1735365130

ISBN13: 9781735365138

Labyrinth of Ruins: Francis Bacon's Encrypted Sonnet Sequence

The Hekatompathia (1582), the first English sonnet sequence, surprises its readers with a cryptographic puzzle at a critical juncture in the text. The puzzle's instructions, enumerated in five points, promise that a message can be deciphered using a specific set of published cryptographic tables. This odd, indeed unique, interruption of a poetic text has long baffled critics. Some have dismissed the puzzle as esoterica; one critic argued that the...

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