SC - Platina

[Huette von Ahrens]

According to Milham, Platina died of the Plague.

Huette

- --- Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:
> "Decker, Terry D." wrote:
> > 
> > I was only commenting on the simile.
> > 
> > I might suggest that Platina's demise in 1481
> probably has more to do with
> > his not using maize than being non-progressive.
> > 
> > Da Vinci was known to be very progressive and
> might have actually used maize
> > for polenta.  In the 23 years after maize was
> introduced to Europe, Leonardo
> > lived primarily in Genoa (Milan) and Tuscany
> (Florence).  Since Tuscany
> > adopted the grain early on, it is possible that he
> encountered and used the
> > grain.
> 
> Sure he might. It's just that he might not. He
> doesn't say, while his
> contemporary, the debatably non-progressive Platina,
> does, and what he
> says is barley. What we're left with, after all the
> research and the
> speculation to date, is a big "Who knows?"
> 
> This is akin to a fictional murder mystery: we have
> people with motive,
> we have people with opportunity. Ultimately we'll
> probably find that
> motive or opportunity isn't enough, and that the
> person committing the
> crime is someone with both. "Could have" sounds very
> SCAdian, doesn't it?
> 
> My own real interest, until we actually have enough
> info to figure out
> the big polenta question, is why Platina is being
> dissed by an
> unfavorable comparison to Leonardo. It's kind of
> like saying Oppenheimer
> was the village idiot for not being Einstein. I
> understand that this
> wasn't you, of course.
> 
> And as for Platina's demise, I don't know offhand
> what the nominal cause
> was, but I'd bet money it wasn't pellagra ;  ) . His
> one or two previous
> near-demises appear to be the result of a tad _too
> much_ progressive
> thinking. 
> 
> Adamantius
> -- 
> Phil & Susan Troy
> 
> troy at asan.com
>
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