Jacopo Silvestri

Jacopo Silvestri (15th century – 16th century) was an Italian cryptographer and author.

[1] He was born in Florence.

The limited information on his life comes from what he wrote about himself in his work, the Opus novum[2] ("New work"), considered the second printed work about cryptography.

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