BOOKS OF LIVY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1924, Page 5

BOOKS OF LIVY.

ALLEGED DISCOVERIES NOW SAID TO BE NOTES. By Telegraph—Press Ausn.—Copyright. Rome, Sept. 15. Dr. Martino Fusco must comply with the law ordaining that such a discovery is notifiable to the Ministry of Instruction. His friends declare he has also discovered a manuscript older than Livy, relating to early Christianity. Critics deny the possibility of his alleged discovery of a contemporary life of Christ and His mother. Dr Martino Fusco has written to the press denying that he is offering to sell the Livy in America. Rome, Sept. 16. Dr. Martino Fusco has again failed to appear. THE DISCOVERER QUESTIONED. Rome, Sept. 16. Dr. Martino Fusco, whose recent announcement that he had discovered the lost books of Livy in the ruins of a monastry in Naples, caused such a sensation that the professor disappeared, ostensibly to avoid interruption in his work. He appeared to-day in Naples in obedience to an official summons, and was interrogated by a Ministerial Commission in the presence of the Prefect. A semi-official statement issued later declares that, what Dr. Martino Fusco has discovered are merely notes of the books, not the books themselves. The inquiry, however, is proceeding.