The renewed rigor of Renaissance classical scholarship and textual criticism was accompanied by equally ambitious efforts to pour new wine into old bottles, from the “archforger” Annius of Viterbo’s “newly discovered” but impossibly ancient world histories, to Carlo Sigonio’s “lost” Ciceronian treatise on death,[Carlo Sigonio], M. Tullii Ciceronis consolatio; liber quo seipsum de filiae morte consolatus est, nunc primum repertus & in lucem editus. Venice, Girolamo Polo, 1583. and Curzio Inghirami’s scarith “time capusules” claiming to reveal the lost lore and prophecies of the last Etruscans.Curzio Inghirami, Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta, quibus urbis Romae, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res gestae indicantur. ‘Frankfurt’ [i.e. Florence: Amadore Massi], 1637. The Baroque and Enlightenment eras proved to be just as fertile for forgery, including devastating demolitions of several of the most enduring ancient forgeries (e.g., the ‘Donatio Constantini,’ ‘Corpus Hermeticum,’ and the Sibylline Books) and imaginative concoctions of others, including an Elizabethan invention of Anglo-Saxon laws as precedents for contemporary trade protectionism,Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, [Laws of King Ine.] Ca. 1565. and the runic “facsimile” of the fake Icelandic “Hjalmar” saga.[Lucas Halpap], [Nils Rabenius?], Johan Peringskiöld (trans.), Historia Hialmari regis Biarmlandiæ Atque Thulemarkiæ, Ex Fragmento Runici M[anus[crip]ti literis recentioribus descripta, Cum gemina versione Johannis Peringskioldi.] [Stockholm?], ca. 1710.
