Two works by Poe decoded. Announcement!!

In his letter to Galvani January 24th, 1834 Dionysios asks the lawyer to advise Dimitrio that the new civil codes process is going very well, as his Corfu contacts confirm. However, while his friends D.Voultzos and D.Flabouriaris are at the time still members of the Ionian parlament, in the next elections, June 1834, the probrit party looses many seats to the other party.
NBY: In these elections Ioannis Dion Cochini is elected second out of the seven Zante MPs. (source DC) Giorgio de Rossi, another of Dionysios frineds passes to the Leontarakis side(Source: Mme Mich. Chartoulari referring to a discovery of Mme Nella Pantazi, record keeper of Corfu's archive, Eleftherotypia, 27th August 2005. Mme Pantazi advised the undersigned in 2005 that the files of the Salomon vs Leontarakis trial were not found in the Corfu archive) and appoints a competent lawyer, Mr Typaldos-Xidias to defend Leontarakis. Obviously Dionysios is facing a well coordinated opponent, much "bigger" than Ioannis Leontarakis.
24th January 1835 Ioannis asks the court to verify (via witnesses certainly) if his mother was carrying when count Nicolo died and if he indeed was born seven months later. The court refused however to call Angelica to testify and requested instead that relative documents are produced. When this was done the court dismissed Ioannis application. Ioannis appealed, the court dismissed the appeal too, Ioannis then filed his recourse to the high court (Supreme Legal Council) in Corfu which also dismissed his case around April-May 1836.
(NBY: Capadochos covers this matter rather hurriedly-one has to search carefully around his book to find that the Zante court first dismissed Ioannis application June 1835-jumping next to July 1836, leaving practicaly 18 months uncovered. See * text in following post)
The new Lord Commissioner, Sir Howard Douglas, arrives in Corfu April 1835 and dissolves the Ionian parliament. (Source DC).
April 1835 The commitee appointed to put together the new civil code system presents its work to the Lord Commissioner. "Until then it appears that there were still some parties which objected to the invalidation of the venetian codes". (exact quote from Capadochos.)
NBY: The murder takes place late spring 1835 in Zante. (Source: Yanni's "Poe Announcement".)
(Continued)

The murder takes place late spring 1835.
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June 1835: The court in Zante dismisses Ioannis application.He appeals.
August 11th, 1835: In a letter delivered by hand to his brother Dionysio writes:"...concerning this matter, do not worry as I have already taken and carried out the decision to deliver the whole of all our correspondence to other hands, well sealed".
November 23, 1835: In a hand written will, Donysios names Dimitrio as his sole heir in the case of his own sudden death.
NBY:: The three 1835 data above are scattered in other parts of Capadochos book. He continues his Jabuary 24h 1835 text as follows:
*After this decision in his favour Dionysios writes to Dimitrio, July the 6th, 1836...
NBY: The complete letter is quoted by Capadochos. The following extract is of particular interest however:
..."Do not loose any time but tell kitty that I was informed, even if she does not write to me, via the such and such old channel that our friend Cochino said "that he is now on the defense and that there is hope in due time he will be obliged to leave"*.
NBY:
a)Professor Capadochos spells the "Cochino" name both with a capital C (page 72) and a small c (page 90), both referring to above 1836 text. In the first reference he goes on to explain that it's a code name meaning someone with strong influence in government circles, while "kitty" a state servant who, contrary to "Cochino's" advise, managed to be transferred from Corfu to Zante. Asked how the name was written in the original letter, Mr Capadochos advised the undersigned, around 2004, that his source, Linos Politis, D.Solomos main biographer, did not specify it and that both references are exact copies from Politis books.
b)translating the text: Cochino's own words (between "quotes") reveal that he expresses the relief of one who has been under pressure for quite a while and who, because of a sudden event which made his position impossible to further defend, hopes to abandon it, leaving possibly Corfu or Zante as well. Ioannis Dionysiou Cochini, the MP and judge? We'll come to the matter later on.
August 7th, 1836 Dionysios writes to Dimitrio that he suffers psychologicaly and has constant fears and nightmares.Capadochos quotes other researchers suggesting Dionysios case is mental.
(continued)

September the 8th, 1836 Dionysios returns to Zante staying there for a long time and returns to Corfy May the 3rd 1837 (Source I.Chrysicopoulos).
The Revisional Council of the Ionian State approved the decision of the Supreme Legal Council favouring Salomon Bros, Arpil the 4th 1838, but the Church still has the final word on family matters:
NBY: It so happened that on March 19th, 1838 the church elected Nicogiorgio Dion.Cochini,brother of Dimitrio the witness and Ioannis, the lawyer etc etc who was enthroned August the 10th, 1838 (Source DC)
(another bit of info concerning the Cochini also missing from Capadochos "source")
Acccording to D.Conomos, Ecclesiastica, page 103::
"The same year of (his)...enthronement, differences arose between the Constantinople Patriarchate and the Ionian State when the latter filed a petition asking for permission to limit the number (line of order) of relatives and be allowed to performe mixed marriages. Patriarch Gregory the VIth dismiseed the petition accusing the Ionian State of plotting against the Church."
Page 105:
D.Conomos refers to an altera pars of bishop Cochini and authority as exarch (nuncio) "...to judge matters concerning marriage such as licenses, reprievals, annulments, divorces" but in all his books he refuses otherwise to touch the subject of the trial.
Bishop Cochini is known to have often preached the story of Zante's Agios Dionysios who forgave the murderer of his brother. He has obviously agreed to support Solomos on condition he will be spared seeing him again, as such Dionysios (and soon after Dimitrio) never visited Zante again.
1839-40 Dimitrio Solomos is apointed Zante's representative in Corfu. With the assistance of Commissioner Douglas, the differences with the Patriarchate resulted to the break up of relations with the Head Church (Autocephalon). The Ionian Bank is created. Griparis writes a four act satire against the robbing money lenders of Zante. Gaetano Chiveto returns to London where he prints verse by his grandaughter Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, and by Dante Gabrielle Rosetti
Bettina, daughter of Roberto, uses the title "contessa" .
1843 Anneta Dimitrio Solomos marries Nik Luntzi
In the elections of 1845 Nik Luntzi, with 137 votes and Dr Nik.Chiveto with 1 (one) vote are not elected. Dimitrio Solomos is appointed Zante's prefect however.
In 1849 the Ionian Congress decides that Salomon Bros may carry the title "count" . This same year Dionysios completes his "Porfyras" but he poem vanishes soon after…..
1850 Nik.Luntzi is apointed Zante's prefect whereas Dimitrio Salomon is appointed president of the Ionian Congress by commissioner Ward and resides in Corfu.
April 1853 there is talk in Zante against "....the house of Luntzi and to remind of the Cochini murder which they allegedly then committed" (translation from Andriolas diary, more details to follow)
December 1856 the scholar Herman Luntzi, brother of Nik, supplies Dionysios Salomon with his translations of german philosophers to read. Dionysios, also emerged in occult studies at the time, is mentally unstable and drinks heavily.He dies after two months (February 21st, 1857).
The A' register of deaths in Zante, quoting the relevant entry from the Corfu register, mentions that the deceased "...is the son of count Nicolo and countess Angelica, born in Zante, resident of Corfu, landowner" (I.Chrysicopoulos)
Zante joined modern Greece in 1864 In the local elections of September 1863 the radical party of Const. Lombardos, supporting full union, gained absolute majority. Between his ten MPs one finds an Andrea Ioannou Cochini. (D.C)

End of chapter. More notes to follow.

it's time for a blog dude.

The brave few who followed this thread so far- managing even to absorb the previous chapter- and are now persuaded that all "official" local data do confirm Yanni's interperetation of Poe's work are hereby complimented and further rewarded by this supplementary list of comments leading us all, hopefully, to the final chapter titled "But who were the victims?".

1" Nicolo was married to Marnetta Caccni eversince 1765. Before his marriage he was a tax collector contracted by the Venetian Republic to "farm" the islands of Leucas and Cephalonia. After his marriage however he began trading tobacco making a fortune. He was enobled in 1785, given the title "count of Torcello" by Venice..."
Obviously a Caccini linking the Paris-Zante "mercers" to still more "Levs". No wonder bishop Nicolaos wanted to do it "his way"-perform "mixed" marriages- and took thus the Autocephalon road.
Re tobacco trade linking the US Cozines and Salmons to Zante and eachother: Enough has been said already but see #2 following to be sure. .

2. Nicolo's will.
No record was found as to the contents.. One assumes Nicolo was not aware, when dying, that his Baltimore Bank relative(possibly his brother Spyridon taking the name George on arrival?) and partner also died the same year he did. Until proven otherwise by US upriver cassin sailors or Salmons, the assumption that sometime around 1818-1830, when the US frigate order hand was fully played, shares or IOU's were brought back to Zante by a competent captain and, before being handed over to their rightfull owner, were carefully examined (the "societe anonyme", a wondefull invention of the enlightened few) and then used accordingly, will remain strong:
There was much-much more to "it" than just shaky property in Zante.

3.The executors.
In his first will (1802) Nicolo names Dionysios Gaetas, Vincent Reinaud and Nicolo Messala but modifying it "allegedly" at notary public Gaetano Chiveto (propably grandfather of Gaetano and John Polidori-Chiveto), Dec 1806, he withdrew V.Reinaud, maintained the other two and also named Nadales Domeneghini, Antonio Michalitsi and Francesco Muzza as alternate executors.
Capadochos however considers Nicolo Messala as one of the two persons who shaped the character of the poet and treats him accordingly (never again mentioning the other executors in his book) .
He further advises that
-Nicolo (1741-1821) was the son of Constantinos Messalas and Marnetta Logotheti (page39) and that
-When Roberto filed his lawsuit against the two brothers in 1807, Nic.Messala appointed chevalier Styliano Michalitsi, law professor and president of the local Zante government in 1808.(page 40)

We already asked ourselves :"Who managed the estate after Messala's death in 1821?" and "Who handed over the management of the estate to the two brothers the 6th of June 1826?"
This question will be fully answered in the last chapter, however here are some further bits of info to absorb, linking the Cochini to the case (Source E.R. Ragabe's Livre d'or de la noblesse Ionienne , Athens 1925. NBY Not a solid source as will be seen in last chapter):
a) Nicogiorgio(1791-1867) the bishop, Dimitrio-Giacomo(1794-?)the witness and Ioannis(1796-?) the lawyer ,were the sons of Dionysio Cochini(1760-1832) and Vittoria Dim. Michalitsi.(she dies 1805)
b) Their sister Elena, born August 1792, was married, 15th January 1817, to Count Stefano Messala (1750-1823 NBY source: The guide to the Zante Solomos Museum, Athens 1987 ) son of count Constantinos Messala. (NBY Count Stefano is therefore the younger brother of the chief executor who dies in 1821. He was the consul of France in Zante until his death in 1823 Thus the matter of "who transferred what, when"? is wide open, the more so due to the age difference between the 25 years old bride and the groom of 67)
c) Their sister Doretta (born 1797) married in 1st marriage, the 8th June 1824, Peter Mocenigo, noble of Zante and in 2nd, the 23rd November 1839, Ioannis son of Anastasio Gaeta.
d) Their aunt(sister of their father Dionysios) Taddea married the 10th November 1779 Giorgio, son of Lambrino Melisino. (Giorgio was elected, first of seven representatives of Zante, in the second Ionian parlament of 1823. His son(?) Ioannis Melisinos along with Arvanitakis and other five, were the members of the commitee formed by Maitland in 1817 to compose the constitution of the Ionian State. :

Conclusion: The Zante Cochini were very close to the executors of Nicolo's will as well as to the lawyer of his love children. Thus, despite count Nicolo's affair, their long lasting "business as usual" climat remained strong, making Dionysios choice of Dimitrio-Giacomo for witness in 1828 quite obvious.They were also fairly closely associated with the british administration

(second part of Comments to follow)

4..August 1831 Admirals Miaoulis and George Causse with Mavrocordatos at their side burn the greek fleet in his base at Poros. Lazaros "Orlov" opposes them.. Governor Capodistria is murdered in September. Civil unrest in Modern Greece. Capodistria's brother Augustino and followers are arrested and interogated in Corfu.

Until 1831 Dionysios has obviously placed his bet on Capodistria aand acted accordingly. He is not the only one however and it's not just "Causse" vs "Orlov" as per #3 above: The mysterious "Cochino" is also playing the same game and so do his brothers, as we'll see below and in last chapter.

5. Obviously Dionysios is facing a well coordinated opponent, much "bigger" than Ioannis Leontarakis:
The Cochini were unanimously following Canning's "friendly" policy while he was "serving abroad" or was in the opposition and some of this "friendship" may have lasted till 1823-24 in Zante. They were shrewed enough diplomaticaly however to understand and keep up the double game until their principal interests were seriously affected and, one assumes, this happened earlier to the hydrian"Sicilians" than to the Zante "mercer-lawyers" if at all . Hence the hydrians exposed themselves fighting for the wrong, as it turned out, side (profrench) thus giving the others the chance to stay low and make their compromise during the trial if not earlier. Dionysios Salomon was obliged somehow to follow their common profrench policy 1823-1828, was then promised Capodistria's influence till 1831 but then woke up, swiftly changing sides. The hydrians, still acting as heads of the family until 1835, turned against him dragging their unwilling Zante relatives along. They finally "got the message" via the murder which allowed the "mercer-lawyers" of Zante to express themselves freely from then on getting the upper hand while the hydrians dissappeared from the scene thereafter.

6. The 1853 diary of Antonio Melissino

In a letter to the undersigned,1999, Andriolas provided a handwritten copy of the relevant page only (explaining that the rest of the diary is mostly in italian) and a brief summary linking the particular page to the previous text:

Summary: In 1853 rumors circulate in Zante that Maria Luntzi, orphaned from both parents, niece of the Luntzi brothers (Herman, Nicolao and Jacob-William) has eloped with a Cochini

Copy of page page 32
The 4th April 1853
Today I met George Messala, we went for a stroll together and he told me: Did you hear what lies they said for the Luntzi girl and do you know the reason?
No, I replied and he added that ,at the ball of the commissioner George Melissinos and his own brother, Stefano Messala, were rudely teazing the ladies of the other party creating thus great confusion. After that this party, to take revenge, conceived the idea to spread this rumor around and spill dirt against the house of Luntzi bringing to memory the Cochini murder they allegedly then committed, adding that my (Ant.Mellissino is obviously in love with the girl) Maria's confessor advised her to do so (elope) to obtain absolution from the sin, and all that to reach the ears of the administration .
(translated from bad greek)

Comment by Yanni:
-Clearly a case of Aprilfoolers vs Mayfirsters!
-Merely names are proof enough that the murder under discussion is related to the Salomon vs Leontarakis trial.

Next : But who were the victims? (last chapter)

I finally have to wonder what all this was about.

Will there be a short, s-h-o-r-t , summary after that last chapter -- not of the content, but of what this was?

the whole piece is encyclopedic and amounts to a rudimentary commentary with nothing new or revealing to the body of research on same. or am i missing it??

and where's your bibliography? you put words in quotations assuming the reader knows the real meaning.

The long and the s-h-o-r-t and the tall

see things differently

if at all!

Is that really your answer?
Are you really willing to have all your effort go straight down the drain by not being communicative?
It is your choice and makes little difference to me.

But...who were the victims?

Dedicated to mercifull mercer "Cochino"!

Part 1

The titled question, a key object of this " instant online research and publish" high wire act, has finally been answered: The victim was neither the Sonnet's maiden (post #1) or Al Aaraafs "Ianthe" (Angelica Palli), nor Guillelmo Cochini (William Henry "Poe"), but Anastasy, Yanni's father (possibly count Saint Germain's son) who was assasinated 1835 in Zante, his curriculum vitae, completed in the meantime with his service in Napoleon's war ministry, fully justifying the conclusion and the main motives of the assasins.

"Finally" because this very same question was wrongly answered in the past, the undersigned publicaly (Note 1 below) making a fool of himself

Elation and ignorance guiding back then, the "father" of greek heraldic science, E.R.Ragabe was even ignored who, in his "Livre d'Or de la noblesse Ionnienne", Athens 1927, specifies that the first "victim" was very much alive, till 1837 at least, his wife keeping on bearing his children until 1838.
There was good reason to ignore Ragabe however: In the "Preface" of his book he states that his only source were the alleged assasins themselves, the Luntzis (acting for the Salomons) . His data on the lawyer were furthermore contradictory (Note 2).

Anyhow, said letter was published and, about that time, the original research on the history of the hydrians was also published. Nobody reacted one way or another, yourstruly could have been content but wasn't, something was amiss, a bad odour floated around, so research continued and, save for the mistake made regarding the number of I.D.Cochini's children, Ragabe and his Luntzi source turned out to be trustworthy, on their Cochini data at least. .

As such, their info on Salomon's first witness, Dimitri-Giacomo(Note 3) had also be considered solid: Dimitrio to was alive until 1838 at least and , as such, the list of Zante candidate Cochini victims run dry: None had been assasinated. Their tentative involvement with the other side was already quite evident but no reason for such a treacherous act against their own family could be found or imagined even, other than money, an ugly scenario!

The item was left pending!

As the Announcement progressed, the Paris mercers were discovered and a lot was written re their dissapearance from Paris after Bastille, their jacobin links, their US and Zante Balsamo links and simultaneous presence etc etc. Earlier , upon the discovery of the eventual sanctification of the founder of the Paris Cochin Hospital, a very specific hint was made:"we'll see about him and that" we remember writing.

Before that, at the time this thread started, letters had been addressed to randomly selected members of the french Cochin etc families as well as to the French Cultural Institute in Athens (under the Foreign Ministry of France) asking for their cooperation in solving the family mysteries of wider national historic and cultural interest. Excepting an empty answer by the last, no other reply was ever received, "thickening the plot"!

Research continued in many fields in parallel revealing all sorts of "wonders". Returning to the Zante murder was kept for the end, the nightmarishly complex and unfathomably ugly truth almost impossible to go back to and, furthermore describe, thus the previous chapter, the cherry to the pie .

It's time to close books!

(continued in Part 2):

Note 1 With Andriolas diary revelation, everything "...fitted nicely together" thus in a letter published by a major Athens newspaper, the 25th March 2000, Dionysios Solomos was fingerpointed as the murder instigator of the lawyer I. D. Cochini(!!!), his brother Rev Nicolaos, terrorized by the event, compromised to be enthroned etc.

Note 2 He writes that Ioannis and wife had the following five children to then list and names nine, the last born 1838..

Note 3. Ragabe gives his full name as Dimitri Dion.Cochini only. The source of "-Giacommo" is the Mercati archive at the Heraldic Society of Athens.

Part 2

Combining data by D.Conomos and E.R.Ragabe(Note 4), the only listed Cochini able to fill "Cochino's" doublefaced shoes is indeed Ioannis Dionysiou Cochini, the judge MP declaring his readiness to leave Zante in 1836!

If his name is translated into french, if one goes searching the net for a Jean+Denys+ Cochin, if "law" is "droit" in french, if wealth and power was then a motive, if the main culprits had money to spare as from 1826(Note 5) and "documents" (Saint Germain's files and property titles) to exchange for positions of authority in the mayfirster society of post napoleonic Paris .....

....then...

....out pops the charitable founder of the Cochin hospital in Paris , Jean Denys Cochin (1789-1841) fullfilling all requirements, justifying Ragabe's mistake re his number of children (Note 6) and getting ready to be sanctified!

The limited biographical data provided for Jean Denys, born 1789, fully tally otherwise (note 7) those of Ioannis Dionysiou including the early loss of his legitimate wife thus justifying Ragabe's "mistake" re his next four children. The french site's own mistake about his "son Jacques succeeding him as mayor of the 12th district of Paris in 1825(!)", a position their father had at some unknown time, justifies the frequent absence of Jean's brother, Dimitrio-Giacomo Cochini, from Zante and as such his "loss of touch", post 1828, with his friend Dionysios Salomon.

The mercers had the upper hand, 1835, in Zante

...talking strange tonques, bits of their story, enough to read "WE", two letters, blessed be simplicity, you think, but maybe wrong...,

Their descendant, baron Denys Cochin, was France's deputy minister of foreign affairs responsible for the "Eastern question" in 1922!

They still have all the cards, all the answers and all the elements to handle diplomaticaly a difficult case, silk clothing (μεταξωτά βρακιά) included.

THE END.

Note 4. Contrary to Ragabe, Dinos Conomos is widely accepted by greek historians as a solid source

Note 5 after the death of count Stefano Messala and before the estate was transferred.

Note 6 See http://www.silapedagogie.com/les_salles_d.htm)

Note 7 Born 1794 per Ragabe: The hand of bishop Nicolaos can be seen here fixing the birthdate of his senior brother.

(Bibliography to follow)

Just imagine that.

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C. Other books and online publications used for "Poe's Announcement" were normally referred or quoted extracts were printed in italics otherwise.

Truly awesome!
But, still, the short summary? :crash:

Tell me first why you labeled the web a drain and yourself a plug, Walter.

In other words, Walter, what makes you think that if a summary of The Announcement is provided, it will not "go down the drain" as you say?

...and, what makes you think that such "drain" (obviously including Poe and his work until now), is more unpleasant than yours?

Please tell me, I am really curious!

Well, now you know what curiosity is.

Save Edgar!

The first "official" recognition of the Announcement and its contents comes from France:

At terresdecrivains.com/ROUSSEAU.html the site publishes following November 2006 comment by "Yanni":

"Mme d’Epinay’s lover appearing as her children’s tutor (percepteur) in 1748 was Gioachino Cocchi, aka (1756) Augustin Henry Cochin, aka Le comte Saint Germain.
He is the father of their Angelique as well as the father of "enlightment" along with Charles Nicholas Cochin and the rest of les Cochins-Causssins-Caccinis-Cassini etc.
Dont’s hide it please.
Regards from Greece"

As the good site further specifies, for viewer comments to be published, they first have to be validated by the administrator.


Thank you JJ, thank you France!

20000 views , 21X5 stars, thanks.

Before we part....

"Walter" asked for a definition and a "s-h-o-r-t" summary be provided.

Definition:
The Announcement is the conclusion of an experiment to prove if genes somehow record experiences and if such are then carried to future generations, inherited as "dormant" memories along with other characteristics.

Walter's Summary:
Apparently St Germain, using Edgar as his herald and yourstruly as interpreter and carrier, returned via the web after six generations (not three as impostors claimed) to present gifts all around and settle his own affairs.

His gifts may take some time to be appreciated, recipients may or may not recognize their value at first, up to them really, not for the interpreter to say/

Having examined and appreciated his own gift however, "Yanni the greek" wishes to conclude his work as follows:

"He diluted the strength of the marvelous in his stories," said his friend Gleichen, "according to the receptivity of his hearer. When he was telling a fool some event of the time of Charles V, he informed him quite crudely that he had been present. But when he spoke to somebody less credulous, he contented himself with describing the smallest circumstances, the faces and gestures of the speakers, the room and the part of it they were in, with such vivacity and in such detail that his hearers received the impression that he had actually been present at the scene. 'These fools of Parisians,' he said to me one day, 'believe that I am five hundred years old. I confirm them in this idea because I see that it gives them much pleasure -- not that I am not infinitely older than I appear.'"

Bye "Logos", thanks for your hospitality.

Bye Tis, Bye Legrand,

Bye Edgar,

Bye all.

Good luck!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by yanni

Walter's Summary:
Apparently St Germain, using Edgar as his herald and yourstruly as interpreter and carrier, returned via the web after six generations (not three as impostors claimed) to present gifts all around and settle his own affairs.

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Not so. That is your summary, not mine.

My dear friends,

I just happen to deal with this very family of Zante, that is the counts Foscardi. There was indeed a certain President of the Stati Juniti dell Isole Jionj -Republica Settinslulare is not any more, dear yianni- BUT:

-His given name was Demetrio (Demetrios), the last born son of conte Niccoleto Foscardi.

-He heald his office, elected by the Ionian Senate -and not appointed by the 'brits' - during the III Ionian Parliament, that is from 1828 till the August 31st of 1830, when he resigned on health reasons. Thus, he was non in position by 1831 as yianni claims to 'help' Dionisio Salamon, and

-Demetrio and Dionisio were nothing but friends. The poet writes to his friend Ioannis Galbanis on May 20th 1830 s.n. that: “non abbi il piacere di averlo amico” (I do not have the pleasure to have him as a friend). This possibly would change in the future, BUT Demetrio soon became incapable by febre celebrale, a decease that soon made him totally invalid.

Sources: Don Basilio can provide them to any interested reader.

Please, stop missinforming on those sensitive matters. It is enough. Let's go on with discent data, signiori.

Caro "Don Basilio"

You are quite right, it was a Dimitrio-not "Dionysio" as wrongly stated by Yanni, not his sources- N.Foscardi president of your "Stati Juniti dell Isole Jionj" 1828- 1830.

As to his "appontment by the brits" and his "friendship" with Dionysios Salomon however here is the story:

Sources (D.Conomos and Dim.Capadochos) agree that Dimitrio N. Foscardi, along with Dionisio Voultzo(Dionysios Salomon's friend) and Franzesco Muzza(one of the executors of Count Salomon's will of 1808), persuaded by prince Antonio Comuto, were the first four members of Zante's nobility who joined ranks with the british high commissioner, Maitland, thus gaining his support. Maitland then created, for them and their followers, the Order of Saints Michael and George, decorated them accordingly and, by his decree of January the 7th, 1817, he notified the "popolo" that he appointed Dimitrio Foscardi and Dionysio Voultzo as the two Zante members of the new assembly of Ionian lawmakers.under Emm.Theotoki.

As already stated, the commissioner was the highest authority of the "Stati Juniti etc": No decision of the Ionian parliament (or the ballot) would pass without his approval.

Re their "friendship":

There may be all sorts of "friendships" and (as from 1826) Dionysio Salomon was a wealthy man. In Corfu as from late 1828, he passed over to the probrit party then and spent next a fortune making "friends" or "contacts" there to get his "bastard" decree approved by the Ionian Parliament. Sources do not disclose the exact date this happened, mentioning only "the decree was approved by the lawmaker assembly of 1831 and 1832.

The fact that Dim.Foscardi withdrew from active duty August 1830, does not mean he was not "contacted" until then, Salomon's May 1830 letter to Galvani indicatory of the fact he was, at least, trying until then.

Was Dimitri Foscardi in "friendly terms" with Dion Salomon otherwise?

Indeed he was: They had both joined (according to D.Conomos quoting Georgios Verykios and Dion.Romas, page 38 book 3) the greek "society of friends" by 1821, D.Foscardi possibl acting as a double agent for the brits (Romas).

Lastly:

What Dimitrio N.Foscardi did or did not do is really immaterial for this thread, the main issues and characters being other, yet I can understand your sensitivity concerning your ancestors(?).

Please understand in return mine and either....

...honour me with your comments re Concino Concini, Gioachino Cocchi (victims of gross "missinformation" by italian historians) and the Zante Cochin "mercers", the last surely included in your files, ....

....or..

....share at least their silence in "discency".

My regards .

Thank you Logos for unlocking this thread as requested.

Don Basilio-or other history and literature scholars-should not be deprived the chance to dispute the contents of "The Poe Announcement".

Regards

"Yanni" ie Antonios Emm. Kokkinis, Athens, Greece.

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.