Two works by Poe decoded. Announcement!!

The following two recent findings (web) show that Jean d'Anastasy or d'Athanasi did not use an alias when first(1813?) employed at the british consulate in Cairo and that, by 1818, he was living there "with family" holding the position of "british chancellor"

1.Extract from "Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids by Giovanni Battista Belzoni
... - Page 139
As to Mrs. Belzoni, I left her at Cairo, in the family of Mr. Cochini, the British
chancellor; and when all was ready, we took leave of the consul and Mr. ...
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2, Extract from"Rivista di archeologia cristiana
by Pontificio Istituto di archeologia cristiana, Catholic Church Pontificia Commissio de Sacra Archaeologia - Christian antiquities - 1924"
-page 296-

Cairo 21 April 1818
segnato G.Cochini cancelliere



An interpretation of this finding will shortly be presented, propably together with Yanni's long promised biography.

Greetings.

New find #3

"Io sono Cochini, fui qui alle quatro de noche, 1868"

...was (now removed) his inscription on Cheffren's pyramide at the time when the Cairo Opera was being built to host Verdi's first Aida there in 1871.

http://www.sahara.it/ubbthreads/ubbt...154a64d91a9509

....the forum administrator (who published this info) further comments

Questo ZH ha intenzionalmente cancellato di colpo 200 anni di storia, cosa si può aggiungere d'altro...?

Growing old, our "Yanni" decided to drop his false "G." but is misspelling "notte" (=night in italian).

His mother tonque was french afterall.

Some thoughts:

If "Yanni's " family name (and face) was known to Drovetti, Belzoni, Bankes, Finati and to other "travellers" under the british Ministry of Foreign affairs ...

If, today, "Rome" puts such info on the web and an italian aegyptology scholar places "Cochini" alongside Belzoni and goes as far as to describe the sacriligious (recent!) removal of their Cheffren wall writings (by the "egyptians"!) as "destruction of the last two centuries of history"....

....then..

...final conclusions re "Yanni's" true identity-and relative unanimous concealment-can be drawn.

"Yanni d'Anastasy or d'Athanasy" turns out indeed to have been a Cochini (a variation of rather) BUT NOT, finally, a "Yanni, Giovanni or Jean", nor a "d'Anastasy-d'Athanasy di Lazaro" either:.

These "immortality" names were suspect as false long before this thread started (while researching , 1996-98, the hydrian Cochini), "Lazarou" becoming a family name localy, the suspicion strengthening when their links to the "immortal" Saint Germain were next discovered and confirmed again later, when their religious arts and talents were traced in almost all christian variations globaly.

Hints have already been made here with regard to their "apparent" links to the de Percevals and de Valbelles, but their true "french" identities could not be really "made" until now for reasons of lack of, or contradictory evidence as well as difficutly in 'interpreting" their conflicting actions, particularly after 1826 ("d'Anastasi's consul of Sweden" appoinmment) and 1835 ("Anastasy's assisination" while "D'Athanasy" is in London).

The greatest obstacle to Yanni's final identification however was himself who, togetehr with his french and british associates (Etienne Bonfort and J.G.Wilkinson) after staging "D'Athanasy's" London "death" in 1854, then organised, in a similar manner, the death of his "D'Anastasy" persona.

Focusing on the latter:

In their family history booklet (see previous Bibliography) the Bonforts do admit to a Cochini great grand mother at the top of their family tree, but fail to mention that she was Lazaro C's daughter (ie Yanni's aunt) also "ommiting" at the same time that Jean D'Anastasy, Etienne's "most respected friend and associate", was himself a Cochini, ie they provide, till today, a cover for him. .

The following extract from their book....

Qu'en Juillet 1860, une aissance certaine, lui-Etienne Bonfort- permet avec deux amis, MM J.d’Anastasy et le banquier Valencin et par parts egales, de couvrir a eux trois la totalite d’un emprunt de 4000000 de piastres, soit environ 20.000.000 de francs a 1% le mois de la Daiva de S.A Moustaffa Pacha. (Bonfort family booklet)

...when read together with the contents of a letter concerning the "late Yanni d'Athanasi's" Gurna house (now famous) and its fate....


15th June 1860
On the subject on the house at Thebes once inhabited by Giovanni d'Athanasy, or as he was generally called "Yanni", who was until Mr Salt's death in his employ, I can positively state that (if) any claim is put forward by the french or the greek consulates for its possession it is entirely groundless.... I know that Yanni never, either in Egypt or in England, put forth any claim to it, and as he did all his power to raise money on everything he possessed it is very evident from his not attempting to do this on the house in question that he had no claim to it.He was assisted with money by several gentlemen in England, who had known him in Egypt when in Mr Salt's employ, and among the number myself, but particularly by Mr Hay who contributed very liberally to his support until at last having made further unwise speculations he ended his days in a London workhouse. (Letter by J.G.Wilkinson to Reverand -aegyptologist etc William Frankland Hood. Bodleian library, Oxford

....raises questions as well as eyebrows, even if, in the meantime, "London" has silently conceded to "Leyden's" version of one and only Yanni-owner of the Gurna house , ie "D'Athanasy" being the same as "D'Anastasy" (who died 1860 according to info received(!) and published by "Leyden", now on the web!!) all with yourtruly's help!

This made matters even worst for the Bonforts in fact (who appear to be going into partnership with "their Yanni" just in the grave) who shorlty after return to Paris where Etienne died wealthy, 1864, while his wife Mariette, a close friend of Yanni to, then trusted a Mr A.Sinano, an important businessman related to the above banquiere Valencin, to handle her affairs in Egypt. (She passed away the 30th June 1890 and was burried next to Etienne, in Marseille)

Luckily this misunderstanding (my apologies to the Bonforts!) has now been cleared and Yanni's true identity, portrait and a short biographic outline will be the subject of the next post:.

"Who was Yanni d'Anastasi, d'Athanasi, Avanassiev etc(*)?"

Footnote * In London, 1837, at the auction of the major part of his collection at Sotheby's promoted by J.G.Wilkinson, D'Athanasy was "temporarily reidentified" as "Papandriopoulos"!!!

Armand Pierre de Perceval (1795-1871) , son of Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval (1760-1835).

Web information re Armand's (or his father's) biography does not practicaly exist...

....with one exception:

The question mark in relevant (#18-19) footnotes of:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d...A8ge_de_France
...where an uneasiness re the details of Armand's appointment as Professor of the arabic language in the College de France in 1822, allegedly replacing his father "Président de 1830 à 1833" is thus expressed.

copypaste from foot note :
Suppléant de son père de 1822 (?)

See his portrait at
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:A...e_Perceval.jpg
(of notice the extended middle finger of his right hand, pointing downwards: A believer in trade unionism and free association in trade, a sign of Saturn or of Saint Jean-Evangeliste? Perhaps all three in a package!)

Armand was, allegedly*, Edgar's hero and it's time for us to slightly modify our previous interpretation of the "Assignation"(1834 January) or "Visionary" of previous posts 55, 56 hereinabove

Next post: Prince Mentoni

Footnote*:
There was also a "Caussin de Perceval, president of the court of appeals of Montpelier, 1852-1855". His exact relation to Armand is unknown, however one should be carefull with words with so many lawyers in the family. Thus: "allegedly"

Part 1
1816 September. Paris. The Supreme Grand Council of the Rite of Misraim....requested that the Rite be placed within the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient.....This was at first considered favorable by the Grand Orient, but they later-(?) -reversed their decision and rejected the offer.
1834 January. Poe's "The Assignation", John Madox's "Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, Etc" published.
1836 September. Lyons. J. E. Marconis founds Lodge of Benevolence of the Rite of Misraim under his nickname of de Negre....(http://www.antiqillum.org/texts/tl/TLSix-013.htm
see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_Memphis-Misraim)


The Visionary

Stay for me there! I will not fail
To meet thee in that hollow vale.
[Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester.]

ILL-FATED and mysterious man! --bewildered in the brilliancy of
thine own and fallen in the flames of thine own youth! Again in
fancy I behold thee! Once more thy form hath risen before me! --not
--oh not as thou art --in the cold valley and shadow --but as thou
shouldst be --squandering away a life of magnificent meditation in
that city of dim visions, thine own Venice --which is a star-beloved
Elysium of the sea, and the wide windows of whose Palladian palaces
look down with a deep and bitter meaning upon the secrets of her
silent waters. Yes! I repeat it-as thou shouldst be. There are
surely other worlds than this --other thoughts than the thoughts of
the multitude --other speculations than the speculations of the
sophist. Who then shall call thy conduct into question? who blame thee
for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as a wasting
away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting
energies?

Introducing thus his tale, Edgar has two distinctly different messages for his friends, Angelica Palli and "Yanni" de Perceval, ex "high priests" of the Rite and ex keepers of its holy secrets (inherited from Saint Germain and family) who, in the meantime, have abandoned their "faith" and broke up their relationship, Angelica beginning a new relationship, Yanni selling the "jewels" to the highset bidder.

In a gentlemanly fashion, Edgar assures Angelica he is about to follow her to oblivion. He has another message however to give to "Yanni", beginning as above, by his expression of regret and surprise to the road Yanni has taken, and continuing in the main text of the tale that follows.
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Of the five characters of the tale itself , only two really survive: The author- narrator (Edgar) and Mentoni(main recipient of the message), Mr X and marquesa Aphrodite killing themselves, the child "carried" away by Mentoni.

Why "Mentoni"?

The name was not randomly selected : Armand Pierre-"Yanni" was the ex mentor of his late brother William Henry (whose steps and dream Edgar followed, breaking his ties with John Allen to wake up, 1833, broke and angry). Edgar's "Yanni" had turned in the meantime to a menthe (otherwise "balsam", base for many perfumes) perfumed "menteur" (french for liar) and had conceded to the Rite's revival under Marconi. "Mentoni" is thus a symbolic synthesis of all these words.

The Visionary's tale continues, as above, as an open letter to Mentoni-"Yanni"-Armand-Pierre who, as Edgar by then knows, has returned to France along with other members of the family to prosper and become again one of the pillars of the "new" society.
(A-P returned to Paris, around 1832-1833, was appointed professor of arabique, propably replacing his father Perceval senior, president of the College in 1830, ie before Lafayette's coup against the King.
Of interest their hometown,Montdidier, belonging once to their ancestor Concino, a fact M.Baillet, Montdidier's historian , fails to mention.)

Continued....

Part 2

The "child" is firstly a metaphor for the "precious secret", the rite they were promoting with Angelica Palli, a secret known to Edgar through his brother (whose work and diary he has inherited and studied in the meantime) and secondly a reminder (to A-P) of William Henry, a Cochini, saved "then in Greece at sea" by "Saint Germain" A-P (a Cochini to), ex father of the "child" and "thou shouldst be-but aren't":

"YOU, impersonator of Saint Germain, my brother died for the cause" says Edgar.

Aphrodite, the godess of love, "mother of the child", is hysterical at the time for the imminent danger, not for loosing the "child", but of imprisonment:

Yet --strange to say! --her large lustrous
eyes were....-but riveted in a widely different direction! The
prison of the Old Republic....how could that lady gaze so fixedly upon it, when beneath her lay stifling her only child?

....while Mentoni, well protected by THE "arch"....

Many steps above the Marchesa, and within the arch of the
water-gate, stood, in full dress, the Satyr-like figure of Mentoni
himself. He was occasionally occupied in thrumming a guitar, and
seemed ennuye to the very death, as at intervals he gave directions
for the recovery of his child.

....takes the child away (from his other persona) leaving the marquesa alone with the author ("Saint Germain" propably drying himself at the time):.

Alas! another's arms have taken it from the stranger --another's arms have taken it
away, and borne it afar off, unnoticed, into the palace! whole the marquesa

The unreachable marquesa-high priestess, a holy "statue" until then, cries...

Marchesa! Her lip --her beautiful lip trembles: tears are gathering in
her eyes --those eyes which, like Pliny's acanthus, are "soft and
almost liquid." Yes! tears are gathering in those eyes-and see! the
entire woman thrills throughout the soul, and the statue has started
into life!.

....and blushes having exposed herself(*1) to the public view....

Why should that lady blush! To this demand there is no answer
--except that, having left, in the eager haste and terror of a
mother's heart, the privacy of her own boudoir, she has neglected to
enthrall her tiny feet in their slippers, and utterly forgotten to
throw over her Venetian shoulders that drapery which is their due.
What other possible reason could there have been for her so
blushing? --for the glance of those wild appealing eyes? for the
unusual tumult of that throbbing bosom? --for the convulsive
pressure of that trembling hand? --that hand which fell, as Mentoni
turned into the palace, accidentally, upon the hand of the stranger.

..thus promising the know all-have nothing author ....

What reason could there have been for the low --the singularly low
tone of those unmeaning words which the lady uttered hurriedly in
bidding him adieu? "Thou hast conquered --" she said, or the murmurs
of the water deceived me-"thou hast conquered --one hour after sunrise
--we shall meet --so let it be!"

....a promise "they" did not keep, selecting to "kill" their previous personae, thus fooling Edgar once again etc.

The main "message" therefore of the author of The Visionary to the recipient Armand Pierre Caussin de Perceval is :

I know your "truth" and you better do something about it or....


*1:Back in 1826 "William Townsend Washington" (In the Nov 2007 version of the Poe family in Wikipedia the Poe Society admits the existence of both a William as well as a George Washington Poe, alleged sons of David Poe Sr or perhaps Jr) had the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of Angelica, "Yanni" running away to their "Gullistan " leaving "Ianthe" behind this time.

Forword
The revelation that insignificant Yanni d'Anastasi was an alias for well known professor in arabic and author A.P. Caussin de Perceval (jr)- a life long "agent" as well-neccessitated the previous revision to the original interpretation of "The Assignment" herein while making the story more plausible for the average reader.

Poe enthusiasts on the other hand may still be questioning Edgar's "character flaws" revealed by "Prince Mentoni": To accomodate them in particular, Edgar whereabouts and works, 1831-1835, were revised, thus this chapter.
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Part 1.
Very similar to "The Assignment" is Edgar's next tale, the seemingly macabre Berenice.

"Seemingly" because, when seen from the right perspective, the tale is simply ironic, provocative, daring and humorous.

The ancient greek port of Berenice on the Red Sea was allegedly discovered , late 1818, by Belzoni who, with his 16 camels, crossed the desert east of the Nile following the old road with the water holes.
Belzoni was acting then as a contractor for Henri Salt and under the supervision of "Yanni and family".
(ie directions were provided possibly by Caussin de Perceval senior)

As seen earlier "John Madox came to Egypt on August 1823 as "a traveller". Upon receiving him, Henry Salt then placed him to the care of Yanni in whose house at Gourna Madox stayed, using it as a base to visit Thebes and Luxor etc, from late 1823. Early 1824 Madox crossed , for some reason or other, the desert east of the Nile and reached the Red Sea wherefrom, on the 14th of March 1824, he returned to Gurna accompanied by a "young Quaker, John Fowler Hull" (page 221). The two then stayed with Yanni with the rebelion brewing all around that resulted, the next day, in the killing of 17 of Yanni's guards as previously described" (D.Manley's, P.Ree's "Henry Salt").

Based on Al Aaraaf's contents,the date and duties of Guillelmos Cochini, agent of Memmet Ali in Zante May the 23th, 1823 (one record only), John Allen' duties onboard a Cochini vessel until 1824 and "William Wilson's" Caussin-Cassin identity ...

....the assumption was made earlier on that "John Fowler Hull" and the orphan adopted by the late captain William Henry Allen (the capture of "The Macedonian") ie William Henry Caussin later aka (later) William "Henry Leonard Poe" aka "George or William Townsend Washington" (found floating 30th November1824, off Porto Keri, Zante) were all one and the same person.

"Berenice" confirms this assumption providing also the identity of the main hero of the tale "Egaus" (Aegaeus gave the name to the Aegean sea) who is none other than the same "ILL-FATED and mysterious man! Prince-Mentoni" of The Assignement, Armand Pierre Caussin de Perceval who "should better listen", once more, to his friend Edgar....

"Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum forelevatas."

....describing first his hero's (Egaus) 1833 "situation" as follows:


MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch - as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been .

.....and his family next:.

".....has been called a race of visionaries; and in many striking particulars ......but more especially in the gallery of antique paintings - in the fashion of the library chamber - and, lastly, in the very peculiar nature of the library's contents"

After describing "Egaus's" noble birth, palaces, exceptional library, vast knowledge, character peculiarities, religious anxieities and ties to THE arch (again) Edgar introduces Berenice, Egaus's cousin:

*Berenice and I were cousins, and we grew up together in my paternal halls. Yet differently we grew - I, ill of health, and buried in gloom - she, agile, graceful, and overflowing with energy; hers, the ramble on the hill-side - mine the studies of the cloister; I, living within my own heart, and addicted, body and soul, to the most intense and painful meditation - she, roaming carelessly through life, with no thought of the shadows in her path, or the silent flight of the raven-winged hours

....linking her next to the actual ancient town

"Thus it will appear that, shaken from its balance only by trivial things, my reason bore resemblance to that ocean-crag spoken of by Ptolemy Hephestion, which steadily resisting the attacks of human violence, and the fiercer fury of the waters and the winds trembled only to the touch of the flower called Asphodel. And although, to a careless thinker, it might......"

(continued in Part 2 following)

Part 2

"Thus it will appear that, shaken from its balance only by trivial things, my reason bore resemblance to that ocean-crag spoken of by Ptolemy Hephestion, which steadily resisting the attacks of human violence, and the fiercer fury of the waters and the winds trembled only to the touch of the flower called Asphodel. And although, to a careless thinker, it might......"

There is no doubt that by "that ocean- crag" Edgar meant the port town whose buildings were made of shelly limestone. But how and why should the ancient port tremble to the touch of the Asphodel, Elysium's immortal flower, why is Berenice the "cousin" related by the author to the town and how did this relationship, a "tale which should not be told", turn into a disease both for her.....

And then - then all is mystery and terror, and a tale which should not be told. Disease - a fatal disease, fell like the simoon upon her frame; and, even while I gazed upon her, the spirit of change swept over her, pervading her mind, her habits, and her character, and, in a manner the most subtle and terrible, disturbing even the identity of her person! Alas! the destroyer came and went! - and the victim -where is she? I knew her not - or knew her no longer as Berenice.

....and for Egaus ?

True to its own character, my disorder revelled in the less important but more startling changes wrought in the physical frame of Berenice - in the singular and most appalling distortion of her personal identity.
During the brightest days of her unparalleled beauty, most surely I had never loved her. In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me, had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.

"Berenice" the cousin (and the town William Cochini, Edgar's "brother" visited with John Madox) means "victory" in ancient greek, rather the person who would deliver it, and the public message Edgar addresses to Armand Pierra Caussin-Egaus is the same as the one he addressed previously to "Prince Mentoni":

Under "the victory lost because of YOU" blame, Edgar, yet again, hides the same second message as before, the reminder to Armand Pierre that "my brother, your cousin, died for a cause you never really believed in, the formation of a new and independent Greece and you better...etc".

The spade, the box with the dentist's instruments, the teeth-ideas and the barely resurrected, still enshrouded ,corpse of Berenice-a toothless "Victory" (Edgar's shrilled voiced, ear piercing Lygeia,. the corpse of the Baltimore American Museum, September 18, 1838) is the result of Egaus-Armand's "mental disorder" to concentrate on the frivolous (including typography) detail, losing the essence and philosophic principle of Elysium's eternal flower, the asphodel (also meaning brotherhood,adelphos= brother in grk, hence Philadelphia etc):

....like the spirit of a departed sound, the shrill and piercing shriek of a female voice seemed to be ringing in my ears. I had done a deed - what was it? I asked myself the question aloud, and the whispering echoes of the chamber answered me, - " what was it? "

....and Edgar repeats, in conclusion, his introductory message to Armand by.....

.... the singular but simple ones (words) of the poet Ebn Zaiat: - " Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas ."
(My friends were telling me that my burdens would be made lighter if I visited the grave of my beloved)

A reminder meant to "petrify" Armand-Pierre .....

Why then, as I perused them, did the hairs of my head erect themselves on end, and the blood of my body become congealed within my veins?

"A penny for my thoughts-and mutual secrets-brother!" is Edgar saying "I hold Wilhelmus Cochini's diary and know, at last, all about you from John Allen and "Pocasin" too"!

Of particular interest:

Even if John Allen's paternal feelings towards Edgar had diminished after Al AAraaf's publication, his interest re the mental state of his brother's (captain William H.Allen) adoptee had not, thus, as the frigates delivery fiasco was developing, he became truly anxious to learn how his health was. Edgar played along and complied, by his letter of August the 10th 1829, advising him that Henry was "entirely given up to drink and unable to help himself". William Henry died 1831, John Allen then- allegedly-staged his death in Richmond, March 1834 and Edgar provided a cover for him -see letter: Edgar Allan Poe to William Poe - August 20, 1835. )

Edgar and John Allen(footnote*1) were threatening Armand not to proceed with litigation to claim damages from the US sshipyards for not fulfilling their contractual obligations re the greek frigates order.

Considering the above, Edgar's testimony on the eventual "bilateral patriotism" of "Mentoni-Egaus" , appears rather biased and cannot be considered "solid evidence" but...

....when "read" together with Caussin de Perceval senior's -allegedly- tragic end, then indeed our Yanni-Armand d'Anastasi ,the "free trade" prophet with the impressive middle finger, has some further explaining to do.....

Footnote *1:

Two entries, just discovered in Hydra's archive (namelist) on John Allen will not be looked up by yourstruly. Poe "enthusiasts" however may check "Allen" (book I page 135) and "Allen John" (IA, p 461)!

The Announcement has apparently revived public interest on Edgar's "visionary" Cochini family: By his article of August 07, Mr Schwartzapfel advises that an indian jewish community bought their lost Holy books by.....

".....the Torah and Talmud — were lost to them. That is, until they were “discovered” in the 1700s by a Cochini merchant who then brought them into contact with the wider Jewish world and its teachings. "

....a "Cochini merchant".

Now then, who might this strange person-yet another Caussin scroll merchant-be and how is it he popped up on yourtruly's screen as he was about to launch the last chapter on scroll-keeper Caussin de Perceval Sr and his tragic end?

Furthermore the "1700s" is much to broad a term to use for such an important transaction and....not to forget too the "peculiar contents" of the family library (quoting Edgar), "Abraxas", "deamon Walsamos" etc etc.....

Would Mr Schwartzapfel care to elaborate so that, at least, the confusion between Concino's descendents and "Cochini" jewish people be terminated?

..... may take their time to mature but do provide an ideal closing for this addendum.

OBVIOUSLY the "family library"-the Medici library partly "transferred" to France after Hapsburg Austria occupied Lombardy! Caussin de Perceval Sr succeeding his father in-law Bejot as guardian of the royal manuscripts collection-was used to "reshape the world" as the interests of the "Arch" dictated at the time (around 1770-1780).

Leaving history and papyrology aside however, let us return to the question "Who the victim of the 1835 Zante murder was?":

If "Yanni d'Anastasi" turns out to be Caussin de Perceval jr, then was "Yanni's" father, "victim Anastasi", the same man as Causin de Perceval sr and was the burlotiero "Lazaro Musiu" his real brother?

As undercover agents of France, the specific hydrian Cochinis may have well assumed false family relations to justify the out-of-nowhere arrival to the island of new "faces" and, as such, "Yanni" might well have been anybody else, any other frenchman who had studied arabic and greek.
There is, furthermore, ample evidence that "Musiu" lived, after 1826, and died (around 1860) a poor man in Hydra , his wife petitioning to the greek government then for a small pension and, as such, the comparison to the wealth and power of his brother de Percecal Jr is remarkable.

However, as his web biographers insist, JJ Antoine Caussin de Perceval sr did indeed die 1835 (July the 29th, in fact) in Paris(Did he really!)...
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ja...in_de_Perceval)
....and as such, he does confirm our "Anastasy 1835 Zante murder victim candidate" by his new identity as well.

IN OTHER WORDS:

The "french" Cochini-Caussins de Perceval used Hydra and Zante as intermediate "stations" in their travels to the Levant. By their relations with "locals", new families were created, kept apart however from the interests and fortunes of the "main" family in France.

The "involvement" of the Zante Cochini to the Zante murder of "Anastasy"...
-the convenient London absence of his son "Yanni" at the time..
-the untruth he coldbloodedly told Madox re the identity of the victim:
("non posso piangere, ma mia moglie e morte, e inutile di piangere") ....
-while continuing the "Yanni' d'Athanasi" lie to accomodate his british friends...
-already then a professor in arabic in the College de France.....

.....call, cry out loudly, for explanations to be provided by their descendents and other french "scholars", silence being no option!

There is no place, in this here "Purple history" at least, for roten "apfeln"!


THE END

Rejoice, friends, the end is nigh, of this Poe Announcement at least!

No Poe paper can considered finished without some reference to The Raven. For personal reasons, least of which language, I shall address it using a quiz type outline!

As 1981 Rice graduate Elizabeth Crook said "we call these war stories the 'horribler' stories, meaning 'My story is horribler than your story.' Everyone thinks he or she has the 'horriblest' story of all, but they don't. Because I do."

Sorry, Lizie, mine is!

The Raven Quiz

1. Is it true that "Kala'nu" in cherokee means The Raven whereas "Καλά.... νού" is a modern greek expression usually said for someone with bird-like mental capabilities? (A slow, up and down, head nod usually accompanies "Καλά.... νού" or, conditions allowing, the head may rest on the speakers's palm, Rodin's "thinker" like)
2. Why do people insist calling Edgar "Allan" Poe?
3. Why did the US congress decide, 1901, to buy the Ellis & Allan trading Co archive?
4. Is it true that Frances "Allan", Edgar's mother, died a month or so after Kala'nu's marriage to John Allen's daughter Eliza at Allenwood, Gallatin, Tennessee?
5. Is it true that another Allenwood existed in Monmouth Co, New Jersey, so named after a famous filibustering captain Sam Allen?
6. Is it true that John "Allan", Edgar's foster father and John Allen, Andrew Jackson's top lieutenant were one and the same person?
7. Is it true that there was "another" captain John Allen (Kirby) and "yet another" captain John "M." Allen (with a brother "Augustus C.", the two known as Houston town founders), all enlisted in the "Texas navy"?
8. Is it true that "peripatetic lawyer, filibusterer and land speculator" John Allen and his brother congressman Robert had their family bibles printed by Matthew Carey in Baltimore, 1808-9?
9. Is it true that Sam Houston and Galveston's first mayor, John M.Allen, were at eachother's troats 1842-1843?
10. Is it true that Sam Houston let go of Texas (having done the same to "his" wise Cherokees earlier) 1844 and that The Raven was first published immediately after?

If your answer to all the above is "Yes" and if your eyeballs have not been pecked off yet, dear reader, you should then be able to interpret Edgar's "The Raven".

Cheers!

Ya got me! I surrender.

MARRIAGES

John Allen & Laetitia Saunders
Friday, 23 December 1808

On Thursday evening Jany. 22, 1829,
Eliza H. Allen
daughter of John & Laetitia Allen
To Sam'l. Houston

(Frances Allan died on February 28, 1829, and Poe visited the day after her burial........)

The wise owl was the symbol of "Pallas Athene"-protectress of ancient Athens, godess of wisdom- thus, by replacing it by a raven-known to feed on dead animals and be attracted by "shiny things" thus pecking sheep's eyes off-Edgar might be simply telling us of the "major philosophical change"-see this thread for Mayfirsters vs Aprilfoolers- that greatly affected him but never really opposed,

An impeccable poem technicaly, including light-black vs pallid-and sound-placid vs the raven's silly noises- effects to further stress the contrast between "old and new values", owl and raven.

Edgar mocks the relatively recent change- "stately Raven of the saintly days of yore"-as well as himself, crying for "lost Lenore" of his youth-Concino's bride, Eleonora Calligai, "ala mode" theatrically in his time, the same character as Annabel Lee, Ianthe, Zante, Nesace and Aphrodite-contessa Mentoni, "Yanni" Caussin de Perceval's generous friend-wife. (Angelica Palli, the woman who taught Edgar to love).



Is that what The Raven is all about?

No it's not :

No poet is an island and Edgar was surely not indifferent to political events in general and to "the other raven" in particular, Sam Houston, who abandoned "independent Texas" shortly before, thus heavily "inspiring" Edgar who had personal reasons:

Readers of the Poe Announcement, aware of yourtruly's previously expressed opinion that "Tampico" John M.Allen was the same man as Edgar's foster father John Allan, will surely find of further interest the fact that John M.Allen has already been independently identified as "somehow" related-see "http://gennotes.150m.com/rallen.html inccluding a loose reference of the Tenessee Allens to Tampico- to the "Jacksonian" John Allen of Gallatin, Tenessee (his daughter Eliza's marriage to Sam Houston was the book by Elizabeth Crook, "The Raven's Bride", 1991) and his brother senator Robert Allen who, both, are seen to raise their social status and come to sudden wealth around 1824-at the time the greek frigates were ordered as seen previously!

Since 1824, Houston had been a frequent house guest of Robert Allen of Gallatin, Tennessee. ...http://www.larkcom.us/ancestry/Allen...%20Houston.pdf

Allen, John (of Tennessee)
"a peripatetic lawyer, filibusterer, and land speculator" (p105, Da Bruhl)

Brother of the congressman Robert Allen, and father-in-law of Sam Houston (see 1/22/29 -- the marriage was catastrophic and the two essentially never lived together).

(Source: mostly Da Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto)
www.jmisc.net/BIOG-A.htm

also see

http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/histor...s/mguide10.htm
http://gennotes.150m.com/rallen.html (link to Tampico Allen)
http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/f/fa/fulltext/0935.html
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/o.../AA/fal22.html
http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/f/fa/fulltext/1185.html
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev...11891094061514

with regard to previously mentioned herein http://home.att.net/~hbridges/tidbits.htm -concerning various pending lawsuits against "Tampico" John M.Allen by Duncan McRae and Hampton LeGrand- as referring, posssibly, to Edgar's own litigation against a vivid, post "mortem", John "Allan", one must now place Sam Houston to the top of the list of eventual suitors, Houston coming out of the woods at the time, seeking to obtain his divorce. Of particular interest the town of Richmond, not connected "historicaly" to the philelhellene captain John M.Allen" but to Edgar's foster father.

Returning back to the poem:
Edgar, who had given false hopes to "Ianthe" in his youth to receive the same in return by his scary fosterfather, having in the meantime succumbed to John Allen's "allmightyness" and accepted his own "weaknesses",hopes-1840 to 1844- that Sam Houston, John Allen's dissilusioned son in law, will finally "do the job" for him, uncover John Allen and bring thus "balm" and "nepenthe" to his own troubled soul He does maintain however, at the same time, relative doubts-"Other friends have flown before- On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."- thus, AFTER Houston's submission to "the system" -that "bleak December" 1844- the poet admits

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted- nevermore!

....or better still "Αιδώς Αργείοι!"

(Part 1)

The present addendum, hopefully the last, is meant to define- clarify the somewhat clouded origins and founders of the "egyptian rite".

Older versions, still online, mostly wanted Cagliostro to be the founder, other versions however put the blame (or honour) to a mysterious Ananiah "the wise" as follows:

1747, d 'Egypte et de Malte, au travers de l'oeuvre initiatique d'illustres personnages, parmi lesquels émerge l'oeuvre du Prince de San Severo, Raimondo de Sangro, conflue à Naples une intense activité de recherche et d'étude de la Science Maçonnique de tradition égyptienne.

1782, depuis la Loge égyptienne de Zante, se propage à Venise et dans les régions limitrophes un système initiatique maçonnique qui a de très évidentes caractéristiques rituelles égyptiennes. Au cours de cette même année, Marc Bedarride, affirme que son père Gad eut la visite d'un Initié égyptien qui se nommait Ananiah le Sage, qui lui transmit la filiation et les pouvoirs de transmission d'une Tradition maçonnique provenant d'Egypte.
http://www.memphismisraim.com/francese.html

More recently, the french Wikipedia links Cagliostro to Zante (!!)-ommiting his Balsamo family name-names him however just "an indermediary of the true founder"(!!) as follows:

Grande Loge mondiale de Misraïm (GLMM) [modifier]
L'Ordre dissous en France par son dernier Grand Maître Général Emile Combet (1887-1900) a été réveillé en 2004 au sein de la GLMM qui revendique la filiation ayant pour fondement la fraternité mystique qui s’est fait connaître par l’intermédiaire du fondateur du rite de Misr ou Misraïm, le comte de Cagliostro (Île de Zante, Italie 1782 - Lyon, France 1784), qui a trouvé son origine traditionnelle en Égyptes Antique et ancienne.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvell...ran%C3%A7aises

Finally (and of particular interest to students of masonic history) a recent (2006!) publication titled "Activités maçonniques avec arrière-plan politique – et réciproquement – en Grèce au XIXe s" by "bro" Andréas Rizopoulos introduces a "Cassini founder" as follows:

extract:.

Il n’existe pas d’archives pour les quarante années suivants et nous trouvons la Loggia Beneficenza établie à Corfou en 1781 par patente de la Grande Loge Mère de Verona séante à Padoue. La demande de Beneficenza est datée 30 août 1781 et l'approbation est datée 13 juin 1782.8 Quelques auteurs ont affirmé que c'était la même loge mentionnée dans les années 1740 mais sans en apporter la preuve. De toute manière, la loge semble avoir travaillé un moment, jusqu'à ce que la République de Venise ait considéré comme suspectes ces “sociétés secrètes” ; la loge dut alors fermer. Pendant la même période il y avait une autre loge à Zante selon une déclaration faite par De Roma lors de la consécration de Fenice Risorta en 1815 (footnote 9).

9.Le nom de cette loge semble avoir été Filanthropia puisqu’on conserve encore des certificats avec ce nom. Selon Roma, le Vénérable Maître de cette loge était Cassini qui est mort dans 1784.http://cdlm.revues.org/document1168.html#resume.

Interpretation of this new finding (reason of Wikipedia's last modification) is absolutely essential and will soon follow.