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Santi del Meglio and Aurelio DeSolo met in Vierspitzen, Switzerland, pawned some of
the jewels, and booked passage to England. Santi became a scholar at Oxford and schooled a
good number of impressionable painters in the art of symbology. Aurelio went to London,
studied with the famous Dr. Cardano, learned to speak aloud, claimed his inheritance and ran the
family’s tanneries until the end of his long days, whence he passed titles to his grandsons and
granddaughters, unfettered of the necessity of stipulation.

Aurelio DeSolo’s glossary was stolen from the court records and published
pseudonymously by an unscrupulous Florentine publishing company which sold hundreds of
thousands of copies at great profit. The same company published Zaccario’s glossary but sold
only eighty-one copies and it and he were never heard from again. See catarrh.

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