by CCash | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In As You Like It, Orlando says “Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.” that’s one of a dozen references to ciphers in Shakespeare’s plays, which reflects the place of ciphers as a common way to keep secrets, particularly among the elite, for...
by CCash | Mar 10, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
The final part of an autograph letter of Queen Mary to Pope Sixtus V. Vatican City, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Archivum Arcis, Arm. I–XVIII, 4082, fol. 3v–4r. | 23 November 1586 | Public Domain| Source Excerpt from a book published in 1850, including this image...
