12-11-2025, 12:20 PM
(12-11-2025, 04:23 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.take literally that he exchanged valuable old books for a cartload of modern trash?
We don't need to rely on that statement only. He did that all the time, didn't he? Even with the Jesuits. Offer a very small price for books that he hoped to sell for many thousands of dollars. Always for a lot of books at the same time, since if he offered to buy just one book the owner would get suspicious...
By the way, I now wonder -- is there record that the whole money from the sale of those Jesuit books ever reached the coffer of the Church, or whatever institution owned them?
If the purpose of his lies was to hide the source of the books from outsiders, he could have just said "sorry but I cannot tell where I got these books from". But then maybe some librarian or accountant inside the Order might have wondered whether some of their books may have left their shelves improperly, and gone checking.
Who it was who asked them about the VMS, was told "it is still here", then "sorry, my bad, it is no longer here"?
All the best, --stolfi