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Giancarlo Gianazza
Research In Iceland 03.04.2013
La ricerca in Islanda

 

Secrets of Mona Lisa:
on Dante, Beatrice and Iceland

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Connected articles
in Italian:
La ricerca in Islanda
Dante in Iceland
Destinazione Island
Verso la Candida Rosa dei Beati
Cavalieri del mistero
English Comments on Cavalieri del mistero
La diritta via

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Why?

Achievements to Date:

  • 2004 - Location of the natural amphitheatre with Beatrice's Seat.

  • 2006 - The fish-shaped rock (about 70 m. from Beatrice's Seat).

  • 2008 - Outline of the Holy Shroud on the rock wall facing Beatrice's Seat.

  • 2012 - The Eagle's eye of Paradise XX (100 roman cubits from Beatrice's Seat).
     There are sufficient elements to conclude that the natural amphitheatre along the Jökulfall River is the one mentioned by Dante as the amphitheatre of the White Rose of the Blessed.
    The exact location of the Temple and its entrance have not yet been detected.
    Research In Iceland 03.04.2013
    La ricerca in Islanda

Giancarlo Gianazza

 

Source:
http://www.sogestgeo.it/Islanda.htm

 
RaiDUE Voyager - 2006
"Dante: una mappa segreta"
parte 1 e 2

Connected article
in English:
 The Holy Grail In Iceland?
Published in Historic Mysteries
on February 10, 2011 By Didi
Historic Mysteries' introduction:
Didi is an attorney, specializing in litigation.
She lives in Connecticut but
was born and raised in Iceland.

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Efnisyfirlit

Why?

Hvers vegna?

Start by reading
Giancarlo Gianazza's
Research In Iceland 03.04.2013

Fyrst skaltu lesa þessa samantekt um rannsókn Giancarlo Gianazza:
Rannsókn v/ Ísland 03.04.2013

The Comedy describes a travel

to Iceland

Dante's Message -

Divina Comedia lýsir för

til Íslands

Skilaboð Dante -

  • A New Perspective on Dante's Comedy
    Connects it to the History and Mythos of the Knights Templar.
    Giancarlo Gianazza interviewed by Massimo Bonasorte
    Published in Hera Magazine - November 2006.
  • Nýtt sjónarhorn á Gamanleik Dante
    tengir hann við sögu og sögulok Musterisriddaranna
    Í viðtali við Massimo Bonasorte sem birtist í Hera Magazine í nóv. 2006 útskýrir Giancarlo Gianazza það sem hann hefur fundið út.
  • The same message hidden in the paintings of Botticelli, Leonardo and Raffaello:
    • Secrets of Mona Lisa and Pala di San Barnaba
      >> Dante's face and his three books
      >> Beatrice
      >> The Kjolur Route in Iceland
    • On Last Supper and Sant'Ann see
      >>       Cavalieri del mistero in italic and
      >> here: English Comments
      on Cavalieri del mistero
  • Sömu skilaboð fólgin í málverkum Botticelli, Leonardo og Raffaello:
    • Vísbendingar í listaverkunum Mona Lisa og Pala di San Barnaba,
      >> Dante: andlit hans og þrját bækur
      >> Beatrice
      >> Kjalvegur á Íslandi
    • Um Last Supper og Sant'Ann sjá
      >> hér: Cavalieri del mistero á ítölsku.
      >> Hér er á  ensku fjallað um ítölsku greinina.
  • One of the old tellings describes an episode where 80 knights fully armored presented themselves on the icelandic parlament in year 1217 without a word on their errand. 
    The telling has not been translated into english.

 
  • The site Dante describes in Iceland
    Dante on the Site
  • See photos from the Site
    of Dante in Iceland
  • Sjá myndir frá göngusvæði
    Dante á Kili

Dante Alighieri  

1265 - 1321


Dante Alighieri -  

málaður    

af Giotto  

Painted in the chapel of the Bargello palace in Florence.
This oldest portrait of Dante (1265 - 1321) was painted during his lifetime before his exile from his native city.
Occupation: Statesman, language theorist and an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italian he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta).
See Wikipedia

Málverk í kapellu Bargello hallarinnar í Flórens.
Þetta elsta málverk af Dante (1265-1321) var málað áður en hann var gerður útlægur úr fæðingarborg sinni.
Starf: Stjórnvitringur, málfræðingur og skáld frá Flórens. Höfuðverk hans, Gleðileikurinn (Hinn Guðdómlegi Gleðileikur) er álitið mesta bókmenntaverk sem samið hefur verið á Ítölsku og meistaraverk í heimsbókmenntunum. Á Ítaliu er hann þekktur sem “il Sommo Poeta” Höfuðskáldið.
Sjá Wikipedia 

An explanation is wanted! Why?

Hvernig getur staðið á þessu?

  1. Why is the Comedy actually a description of a route to Kjölur in Iceland?

  2. Why is the descripton of the route and it's target so heavily disguised, as preferrably not to be deciphered by the contemporary man?

  3. Why are there to be found masterpieces of Botticelli, Leonardo and Raphael, loaded with informations along the same lines?

 

  1. Hvernig stendur á því að kvæðið Divina Comedia er fyrst og fremst leiðarlýsing að Kili á Íslandi?

  2. Hvernig stendur á því að lýsing leiðarinnar og áfangastaðarins er fram sett á svo snúnu dulmáli að það er líkast því sem samtímamenn ættu helst alls ekki að geta ráðið í hina réttu meiningu?

  3. Hvernig stendur á því að til eru meiri háttar listaverk eftir Botticelli, Leonardo og Raphael sem bera í sér sams konar upplýsingar?

 

Giancarlo

 Gianazza
offers a hypothesis - that might be proven by finding objects at the site: hefur tilgátu sem unnt gæti verið að staðreyna ef eitthvað finnst á svæðinu:
In the year 1125, something important was found in Jerusalem by the first Knight Templars, probably ancient objects and documents related to the true Christian teachings and the true history of the earliest Christian age. Árið 1125 fundu fyrstu musterisriddararnir eitthvað mikilvægt í Jerúsalem. Hugsanlega forna muni og skráðar heimildir sem tengdust hinum raunverulegu viðfangsefnum og sögu elstu kristni.
For a century these ancient objects and documents were hidden in the south of France. Í hundrað ár voru þessir hlutir fólgnir í suðurhluta Frakklands.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was at that time the spiritual leader of the Knight Templars
and probably this matter was in his care.
In that age it was not possible to talk about the truth since it was too easy to destroy the evidence. 		Heilagur Bernard frá Clairvaux var um þær mundir andlegur leiðtogi musterisriddaranna og hugsanlega var hann gæslumaður þessara muna. Á þeim tíma var ekki unnt að ræða um þessi mál og það sem þau sönnuðu vegna þess að með aflsmun mátti eyða mununum - sem voru sjálf sönnunargögnin.
Thus the truth remained hidden, awaiting future generations and the right time. Sannleikurinn var því fólginn og beið komandi kynslóða og rétts tíma.
In the years following 1209, the war against Cathars showed that there was no safe hiding place in the south of France so it was decided that Iceland was the best place where to hide the documents. Árin eftir 1209 sýndi morðhernaðurinn gegn hinum trúuðu og friðelskandi Kathörum í Frakklandi að þar í landi var ekki lengur neinn öruggur felustaður og þá var ákveðið að best væri að færa munina til Íslands.
80 Knights
helped by Snorri Sturluson
found the right place
in the Kjolur.		 Árið 1216 segir Sturlunga frá alþingi þar sem "Snorri reið upp með sex hundruð manna og voru átta tigir Austmanna í flokki hans alskjaldaðir."
 Gerum ráð fyrir að þeir hafi  notið aðstoðar Snorra til að finna hentugan felustað á Kili.
Years later, Dante (1265-1321) was chosen as the poet who could write a poem containing the instructions for future people to find the truth hidden in Iceland. Nær öld síðar var Dante (1265-1321) fenginn sem skáld til að skrifa í ljóði leiðarvísi fyrir komandi kynslóðir að finna hina földu muni á Íslandi.
In the years 1490 - 1520 Botticelli, Leonardo and Raphael put the same information in their masterpieces since masterpieces of art travel in the time and reach future people. Á árunum 1490 - 1520 settu listamennirnir Botticelli, Leonardo og Rafael sömu upplýsingar inn í verk sín til að gefa þeim upplýsingum fleiri boðleiðir til fólks framtíðarinnar.
Our task now is to find the objects and finish the work. Núna er eftir að finna á staðnum staðfestingu tilgátunnar.

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The Wardens of the Message

Gæslumenn skilaboðanna

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Merkasti lykilfundur sögunnar!


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The satellite photo of the area of Iceland that corresponds to the Garden of Eden in the Divine Comedy. Along the river the way of Dante in the Divine Forest.

From the entrance in the Divine Forest to the meeting points with Matelda and Beatrice and then to the point of the spring of the two river, Lete and Eunoè in the Comedy, the rivers Jokulfall and Blakvisl in the Icelandic map of the area.

See Photos from the Site

Of Latitude And Longitude
In The 13th Century

Um hnattlæga lengd og breidd
á 13. öld
In this passage from Questio de Aqua et Terra,
Dante is speaking about the Arctic Circle.

“Per lineam vero latitudinis, ut comuniter habemus ab eisdem, extenditur ab illis quorum cenith est circulus equinoctialis, usque ad illos quorum cenith est circulus descriptus a polo zodiaci circa polum mundi, qui quidem distat a polo mundi circiter XXIII gradus, et sic extensio latitudinis est quasi LXVII graduum et non ultra, ut patet intuenti.” DANTE ALIGHIERI, Questio de Aqua et Terra, XIX.

[Trad.: In latitudine poi, come in genere sappiamo dai medesimi astronomi, la terra si estende da quelli che hanno lo zenith sul circolo equinoziale fino a quelli il cui zenith è il circolo descritto dal polo dello zodiaco attorno al polo del mondo, che invero dista dal polo del mondo poco più di 23 gradi, cosicché l’estensione in latitudine della terra è di quasi 67 gradi e non più, come è chiaro a chi osservi.]

In English -
See >> pdf here <<
and here on the >> internet <<

Latitudinally, as we commonly receive from the same authorities, it stretches from those whose zenith is the equinoctial circle to those whose zenith is the circle described by the pole of the zodiac round the pole of the universe, which is distant from the the pole of the universe about twenty-three degrees.

And thus the extension in latitude is about sixty-seven degrees and no more, as is evident on reflection; and thus it is clear that the emergent land must have the figure of a half-moon, or something like it; for that is the figure which results from such latitude and longitude, as is evident.

But if it had a circular horizon it would have a convex circular figure, and so the longitude and latitude would not differ in the distance of their extremities, as may be seen by very women.

 

 Í samantekt sinni Um vatn og jörð, Questio de Aqua et Terra,

tekur Dante fyrir fimm algengar stoðir fullyrðinga samtímamanna hans um misjafna hæð sjávar og jarðar. Þar á meðal er sá vitnisburður sjómanna að stundum þurfi þeir að klifra upp í siglutré til að sjá til fjalla fjarlægra landa sem þar með séu augljóslega lægri en yfirborð sjávarins.

Samantektin er rituð á latínu.

Þar tekur Dante hverja rakastoð ítarlega fyrir og hrekur hana.

Hér getur þú sótt samantektina á pdf-skrá
í enskri þýðingu Philip Wicksteed.

Ef þú vilt hana á öðru formi
þá skoðaðu hana hér á netinu.

Meðal fjölmargra atriða sem Dante nefnir er 23ja gráða möndulhalli jarðarinnar og þar með norðurheimskautsbaugurinn á um það bil 67. gráðu norðlægrar breiddar.

(Til gamans -
sjá hér skýringu á ensku
um möndulhallann og sólarhæð.)

 


Beijaja - Marseille
at the same longitude -
á sömu lengdargráðu

In these verses of Paradise IX

Dante affirms that Marseille and Buggea (Béjaïa in Algeria) are almost on the same meridian. Verses 82 - 95.

"The widest valley into which the waters
spread from the sea that girds the world," his words
began, "between discrepant shores, extends
eastward so far against the sun, that when
those waters end at the meridian,
that point-when they began-was the horizon.
I lived along the shoreline of that valley
between the Ebro and the Magra, whose
brief course divides the Genoese and Tuscans.
Beneath the same sunset, the same sunrise,
lie both Bougie and my own city, which
once warmed its harbor with its very blood.
Those men to whom my name was known, called me
Folco (from Marseille)

 

Í Paradise IX

lýsir Dante hvað átt er við
þegar sagt er
að tveir staðir
séu á sama lengdarbaug

 
Diameter of the Earth in the Convivio (Banquet)

“ Mercury is the smallest star in the heavens, for the length of its diameter is no more than 232 miles, according to Alfraganus, who asserts that it is one twenty-eighth the diameter of the earth, which is 6,500 miles…” (Convivio II, XIII, 11)

Alfraganus was one of the most famous astronomers in 9th century.
He was involved in the calculation of the diameter of the Earth by the measurement of the meridian arc length, together with a team of scientists under the patronage of al-Ma’mun in Baghdad.

The Earth has a diameter of 6,500 miles and the equatorial circumference of 20,400 miles (Convivio. III, V, 11).
The Arab mile is about 1973 m.

According to Carlo Alfonso Nallino (Raccolta di scritti editi ed inediti, volume 5, Roma 1944, pagg. 455-57). See also Geodesy, Raymond P. Mercier
Arabic Metrology (p. 177),
Measurements of
the Length of a Degree (p. 178)
[or else >> here <<]

So according to Alfraganus (and Dante) the circumference of the Earth is about 40,250 km, very close to reality.

 Á 9. öld

reiknar

Alfraganus

ummál jarðar

Ruggero Bacone in the year 1267

wrote to Pope Clemente that he wanted to map all the latin towns using coordinates, latitude and longitude, as the Arab had already done for their cities.
(Toby Lester, The Fourth Part of the World)

Dante lived from 1265 to 1321.

Árið 1267 - þegar Dante var tveggja ára -

ritaði Ruggero Bacone Clemente páfa og vildi styrk hans til að skrá hnit, lengd og breidd, allra latneskra borga - eins og Arabar hefðu þegar lokið við að gera um allar sínar borgir. 

(Toby Lester, The Fourth Part of the World)

Dante var uppi frá 1265 til 1321.
Muslim Science

Thanks to the Toledo School of Translators  the knowledges of astronomy and geography of Muslim science were accessible to Roger Bacon and Dante.

In the Twelfth century Gerard of Cremona translated the writings of the Spanish Arab Al-Zarqali, the foremost astronomer of his time.

Al-Zarqali carried out a series of astronomical observations at Toledo and compiled them in what is known as his famous Toledan Tables. He corrected the geographical data from Ptolemy and Al-Khwarizmi. Specifically, Al-Zarqali corrected Ptolemy's estimate of the length of the Mediterranean sea from 62° of longitude to approximately correct value of 42°.

The Toledo Tables were translated into Latin in the Twelfth century. All subsequent tables for different location in Europe were based on Al-Zarqali's measurements.

The Tables of Marseilles (based on the Al-Zarqali Toledan Tables) were also adapted for the meridian of London, Paris and Pisa.

An important School of Translators of the thought of Al-Zarqali was also in Marseilles and Montpellier. William the Englishman who lived in Marseilles during the first half of the thirteenth century translated the writings of Al-Zarqali in the year 1231.

Al-Zarqali
og hans vísindalega tillegg í stjörnufræði

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Ancient units of length

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Wikipedia: Length * Fornar lengdareiningar

Modern metrologist have found the Roman foot to be 16⁄28 of the Nippur cubit: 29,6352 cm.

Roman unit

Latin name

Feet

Equivalence

Icelandic name

one digit

digitus

1⁄16

18.5 mm

stafur = fingur

one inch

uncia

1⁄12

24.6 mm

tomma

one palm

palmus

1⁄4

74 mm

lófi = þverhönd

one foot

pes

1

29.6 cm[1]

fet

one cubit

cubitus

1 1⁄2

44.4 cm

alin

one step

gradus

2 1⁄2

0.74 m

skref

one pace

passus

5

1.48 m

faðmur

one perch

pertica

10

2.96 m

stöng

one arpent

actus

120

35.5 m

?

one stadium

stadium

625

185 m

?

one mile

mille passuum (milliarium)

5000

1.48 km

míla

one league

leuga

7500

2.2225 km

?

Notes - Ath.:

  1. The value of the historical Roman foot scientifically obtained through modern statistical methods is 296.2 mm ± 0.5 mm, or about (296.2 ± 0.17%) mm (cf. Rottländer, Tübingen, Germany). The table above is based on this value, but rounded to the millimetre precision for the foot.

  2. Lengd hins fornrómanska fets hefur verið reiknað út með seinni tíma talnafræði og reynist vera 296.2 mm ± 0.5 mm eða um það bil (296.2 ± 0.17%) mm (cf. Rottländer, Tübingen, Germany). Þetta er útreikningsgrunnur töflunnar.

 

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