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10		<td width="290"><a href="http://www.ssnr.it/index.html"><img border="0" src="Scritta.gif" width="310" height="263"></a></td>
11		<td width="72">&nbsp;</td>
12		<td valign="top" width="257">&nbsp;<p align="justify"><span lang="it">Gallo con sembianze di 
13		serpente, notevole per la coda di serpente, ammirato con stupore 
14		generale&nbsp; nel giardino del Granduca di Toscana Francesco, nella 
15		forma qui raffigurata</span></td>
16		<td valign="top"><span lang="it">&nbsp; </span></td>
17		<td width="284" valign="top">&nbsp;<p align="justify"><span lang="it">Snake shaped Cock, 
18		noticeable for its snake tail, seen in the garden of the Grand Duke 
19		Francesco of Tuscany, with general astonishment, in the form shown here</span></td>
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22<p><span lang="it">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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29		L'immagine è tratta dalla pagina 97 del<br>
30		<b>Mundi Subterranei liber octavus, Sectio IV </b>&quot;<br>
31		&nbsp;di <b>Athanasius Kircher</b><br>
32		pubblicato nel 1665</span></span></p>
33		<p style="margin-left: 3px"><span class="gb-title-box"><span class="gb-title-box-dash">
34		<span lang="it">dove si tratta</span> </span></span>
35		<span class="gb-title-box-title"><span lang="it">&quot;De animalibus 
36		subterraneis&quot; capitolo &quot;De Genesi Draconum&quot;</span></span></p>
37		<p style="margin-left: 3px"><span class="gb-title-box"><span class="gb-title-box-title">
38		<span lang="it">L'opera enciclopedica <b>&quot;</b></span><b>Mundus 
39		subterraneus in XII 
40		<span lang="it">&nbsp;</span>libros digestus</b><span lang="it"><b>&quot;</b>
41		<br>
42		fa il punto sui fenomeni naturali, come erano noti e spiegati nel XVII° 
43		secolo, un insieme di scienza, superstizioni e spiegazioni fantasiose.</span></span></span><span class="gb-title-box-author"><span lang="it"><br>
44		L'immagine del Kircher riprende a sua volta una precedente 
45		raffigurazione&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dovuta ad Ulisse Aldrovandi (
46		<a href="http://www.ssnr.it/Aldrovandi.jpg">&nbsp;vedi </a>&nbsp; ) che 
47		recava la scritt<font face="Times New Roman">a </font> </span></span>
48		<span lang="it" style="font-family: Times New Roman">&quot;Gallus cauda 
49		quadrupedis cum crista gallinacea&quot; </span>
50		<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><i>Gallus monstrificus 
51		barbatus cornutus ocreatus cauda anguina in cuius extremitate est 
52		flocus.<span lang="it"> </span>Prope uropygium autem ubi adhaeret 
53		corpori habet quoddam tuberosum rotundum colore albido.<span lang="it">
54		</span>Crista palearibusque plumosis</i>.&nbsp;<span lang="it"><br>
55		Si noti la diversa estremità della coda nel Basilisco di Kircher.</span><br>
56		<span lang="it">Il Baslisco di Aldrovandi compare la prima volta nel 
57		1600 in forma semplice nell' Ornithologiae Liber XIV a pag 328 con la sola scritta: &quot;Gallus cauda quadrupedis 
58		cum crista gallinacea&quot; ( <a href="http://www.ssnr.it/basilisco2.jpg">
59		vedi </a>). Ci furono nel XVII°secolo numerose altre versioni di questa 
60		immagine.</span></span></p></td>
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63		<span class="gb-title-box-title"><span lang="it">
64		<b><br>
65		</b>The image of the Basilisk is taken from page 97 of<b><br>
66		Mundi Subterranei liber octavus, Sectio IV </b>&quot;<br>
67		&nbsp;by <b>Athanasius Kircher</b><br>
68		published in the year 1665</span></span></p>
69		<p style="margin-left: 2px"><span class="gb-title-box"><span class="gb-title-box-dash">
70		<span lang="it">the 8<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup> volume deals 
71		with the subterranean animals, and the origin of Dragons</span></span></span></p>
72		<p style="margin-left: 2px" align="left"><span class="gb-title-box"><span class="gb-title-box-title">
73		<span lang="it">It is part of the encyclopedic <b>&quot;</b></span><b>Mundus subterraneus in XII 
74		<span lang="it">&nbsp;</span>libros digestus</b><span lang="it"><b>&quot;</b>
75		<br>
76		a treatise in 12 volumes that makes the point on natural phenomena, as 
77		they were known and explained in the 17<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup> 
78		century, a mixture of science, superstitions and fanciful explanations.</span></span></span><span class="gb-title-box-author"><span lang="it"><br>
79		The figure of the Basilisk shown by Kircher was first depicted in early 
80		17<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup> century by Ulisse Aldrovandi&nbsp; 
81		(
82		<a href="http://www.ssnr.it/Aldrovandi.jpg">&nbsp;see here </a>&nbsp; ). 
83		The colour image was accompanied by the inscription&nbsp;
84		<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></span></span><span lang="it" style="font-family: Times New Roman">&quot;Gallus 
85		cauda quadrupedis cum crista gallinacea&quot; </span>
86		<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><i>Gallus monstrificus 
87		barbatus cornutus ocreatus cauda anguina in cuius extremitate est 
88		flocus.<span lang="it"> </span>Prope uropygium autem ubi adhaeret 
89		corpori habet quoddam tuberosum rotundum colore albido.<span lang="it">
90		</span>Crista palearibusque plumosis</i>.<span lang="it">&nbsp; Note the 
91		different tip of the tail in Kircher's Basilisk </span><br>
92		<span lang="it">The first image of Aldrovandi's Basilisk was published 
93		in 1600 at page 328 of Ornithologiae Liber XIV as &quot;Cock with quadruped 
94		tail and cockscomb&quot; <br>
95		(
96		<a href="http://www.ssnr.it/basilisco2.jpg">see here </a>). Several more 
97		images of the Basilisk were published in </span></span><span class="gb-title-box-author"><span lang="it">
98		17<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup> century 
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