Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

253 Pages·2013·2.75 MB·English

by  Joseph P. Farrell

Financial
Vipers
of Venice
Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The sequel to Babylon's Banksters
Financial
Vipers
of Venice
Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
JOSEPH P. FARRELL
FERAL HOUSE
Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance
© 2010 by Joseph P. Farrell
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Above all, to
SCOTT DOUGLAS de HART:
You are a true
For all the shared bowls and walks and talks and so many brilliant insights
in so many conversations through the years, anything I could say, any
gratitude I could express, is simply inadequate.
GEORGE ANN HUGHES:
Dear and good friend:
You are a constant encouragement; thank you, but again, it seems so
inadequate.
DANIEL R. JONES:
Good friend, who has seen the full implications of the Metaphor, and given
numerous and priceless insights: Thank you is, in your case as well,
inadequate.
BJK, BAS, “BERNADETTE,” PH,
and all the other “extended Inklings” out there: Many thanks for continued
and consistent friendship through the years.
And to
TRACY S. FISHER,
who with love and gentle prodding encouraged me to write: You are, and
will always be, sorely missed.
“I met Murder on the way—
He had a mask like Castlereagh—
Very smooth he look’d yet grim;
Seven bloodhounds followed him:
“’Tis to let the Ghost of Gold
Take from toil a thousand fold,
More than e’er its substance could
In the tyrannies of old:
“Paper coin—that forgery
Of the title deeds, which ye
Hold to something of the worth
Of the inheritance of Earth.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, from The Masque of Anarchy