Talk:Giambattista della Porta

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This note should have been signed by the editor with 4 ~ in a row, which would have automatically included the data and time of the edit, and the name or IP address of the editor. As it stands, the note is addressed to someone, who should have been identified. ww 07:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Citation Needed

Charles J. Mendelsohn commented:

He was, in my opinion, the outstanding cryptographer of the Renaissance. Some unknown who worked in a hidden room behind closed doors may possibly have surpassed him in general grasp of the subject, but among those whose work can be studied he towers like a giant.

Could some one provide a citation for this quote ? its been deleted twice. I'll repost if its cited J8079s (talk) 03:50, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Cipher

Porta's Cipher is definitely one of my favorite coding techniques. the fact that it requires that MASSIVE 26x26 matrix is a bit of a bummer though. Porta was really the best cryptographer of the renaissance.n — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.88.30 (talk) 04:42, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

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Reason for even being here ?

whoever made this page , I thank you , this is helping me better understand who I am and who I decend from . But I know why I am here why is everyone else here ? 2600:8805:C40B:1C00:B04E:6CEF:CBDA:84CE (talk) 16:51, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

I'm here following up on an interesting tangential mention of Della Porta in Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles. It sounds like your ancestor was a semi famous polymath who made early contributions to a lot of important intellectual fields and rubbed shoulders with influential people. It seems entirely unsurprising that he should have a Wikipedia page. Mr.Edross (talk) 14:06, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Religious Complications Section Problems

The section titled "Religious Complications" has some issues, and I'm hoping a future editor with knowledge on the subject can either fix it or eliminate it by folding in the relevant parts somewhere else. For starters it seems largely redundant with the second paragraph of the "Pioneering Scientific Society" section. Also it doesn't cite any references. Also the meaning of the last two sentences is unclear and seems dependent on external context:

"Porta's involvement with the Inquisition puzzles historians due to his active participation in charitable Jesuit works by 1585. A possible explanation for this lies in Porta's personal relations with Fra Paolo Sarpi after 1579."

"Porta's involvement" as far as I can tell from the lead-in was that he was targeted with suspicion by the Inquisition but this phrase seems to be implying greater agency than that. Then we're left to wonder specifically how his involvement in the inquisition is at odds with active participation in religious charitable pursuits and which experts are puzzled by the contradiction. Then whatever the contradiction is it is potentially explained by some unexplained "relations" with someone named Sarpi.

I hope someone qualified can bring this section up to the quality level of the rest of the article or otherwise address these issues. Mr.Edross (talk) 14:22, 3 November 2024 (UTC)