On the character of Wilfrid Voynich

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I am not sure where he acquired church property that the church did not want to sell.

Maybe I misunderstood the story, but I understood that the Jesuits were worried about reactions to the sale internal to the Church.

Not sure if it is relevant, but there has always been quite a bit of internal political tension between the Jesuits and other branches of the Church.  I suppose that the latter would have exploited the sale in that strife, had they known about it.  Even because the books (predictably) ended up in the US, violating Italian law.

All the best, --stolfi