In einem Astronomie-Blog

http://zauberdersterne.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/sidereus-nuncius-und-der-groste-falschungsskandal-seit-200-jahren/

Leider hinter einer Bezahlschranke:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_schmidle

Über ihn sagt Jennifer Lowe in EXLIBRIS: "Nick Schmidle's New Yorker article on De Caro has been published and contains more revelations about the case than I thought possible. So much that we thought we would never know about the making of the forgeries is revealed, thanks to Schmidle's three-day visit to De Caro, in which he coaxed him into confession. Amazing journalism!"

Das eingangs erwähnte Blog bezieht sich auf

http://www.examiner.com/article/nick-schmidle-interviews-book-thief-forger-m-m-de-caro-for-the-new-yorker

Uns interessiert insbesondere die Causa Zisska dort:

"On August 28, 2013, Professor Montanari recounted in a newspaper article that in September of 2011, just three months after Minister Galan appointed him Library Director, De Caro had chosen to sell books he stole through the auction house Zisska & Schauer and delivered 600 volumes to his accomplice, Luca Cableri, an antiquarian bookseller in return for the sum of €1,000,000 and the understanding he would receive more money after the auction through an intermediary in Switzerland.

According to Zisska & Schauer’s own account, before they could hold an auction in May of last year, an intermediary offered the auction house a consignment of more than 400 books, which they included in Catalog 59. On the eve of the auction, the Bavarian State Criminal Police confiscated some of the books to be sold at auction because they were believed to have been stolen from the Library of Gerolamini, and since several of the books the police confiscated were from the consignment of over 400 books, as a precaution the auction house set aside all the books from that consignment.

Last July, Munich police arrested Executive Director Herbert Schauer on a European arrest warrant issued by Italian authorizes. In other words, the Italian criminal justice system holds him culpable instead of considering him a dupe."  http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/582029534/  Wenn ich richtig gelesen habe, so hat gerade Owen Gingerich auf grund genauer astronomischer Analyse die Mondphasen-Aquarelle in der "New York Kopie" als erster bezweifelt, und zwar bereits 2009 in seinem Aufsatz ‘The Curious Case of the M-L Sidereus nuncius’, Galilaeana 6, 2009,