Labyrinth of Ruins: Francis Bacon's Encrypted Sonnet Sequence

by Richard Shapiro

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1735365130
• ISBN13: 9781735365138
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Leonidas Press
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"