What you are going to read is a book that talks about a book. But the most extraordinary thing about the book of which we talk is that until now no one has succeded in understanding or simply reading this weird book. All you can do is look at the drawings and at the writing. The Voynich Manuscript (or VMS as I will call it from now on) appears to be undeciphereable. It's a mystery that nobody can solve, a code that no one can break. Maybe it was compiled in the dark ages, even if there are many differences with the other manuscripts of that time, and surely in a unknown place.

In the past 90 years the VMS has been analyzed, studied and loved, but no one has broken its code. It has resisted the biggest cryptanalists' anlysis, the CIA and all the Secret Services attempts, even using the best and powerful computers no one has succeded in discovering what those unusual characters hide.

In the next pages I will try to drag into light the story, to thin out the fog, if it will be possible. I will follow it in its wandering throughout the old Europe in the hand of a lot of men, its moving through libraries, until it came into the hand of an antiquarian, named Voynich. I will try to shed light on the old and news theories about the VMS, named the most mysterious book in the world.

But here the past touches the present.

Surfing the web you can find more than 2,000 websites that, in a dozen of different languages, talk about the VMS, trying to understanding the secret. A lot of forums, over a million of members, millions of posts all on this enigma that someone has defined elegant. In all the world all these websites have given voice to a people, The Voynich People.

The famous VMS-list has hundreds of informatic souls who are writing and reseraching from different countries of the world. Professionals, amateurs, scientists and professors, onlookers and fonded. And I consider myself one of the Voynich People.

The book you have in hand is the first in Italy that offers the possibility of looking at, in the real dimension, all the mysterious pages of the manuscript.

Just one thing: I am not a historian nor a Cryptologist, indeed you will not find cryptologic and graphologic investigations, for those I can suggest a lot of good books, but unfortunately none in Italian.