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Traces of an 18th-century master forger: new evidence discovered

Forgery by Domenico Alessandro Cicci. Probably from 1763 to 1769. Credit: Apparatus Diplomaticus of the University of Göttingen A document kept at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Göttingen has been found to be an 18th-century forgery. This document is dated to 1266, but refers to a church in Pisa that was not built until later. This discovery…