Talk:Milo Rambaldi

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Contents 1 Will Dan Brown sue? 2 Biography by 206.208.110.32 3 Known Rambaldi Artifacts 4 Rambaldi's Endgame 5 www.rambaldidvd.com 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Alias Eye of Rembaldi IntroScreen.JPG

[edit] Will Dan Brown sue?

The whole Rambaldi story line sounds suspiciously like The Da Vinci Code. Since I'll never read anything by Dan Brown (Illuminatis with Antimatter?), somebody else will have to document any connections. Just wanted to raise the possibility. ---Isaac R 19:23, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

No way. Having read both of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon novels as well as being a fan of Alias, I can tell you they're nothing alike besides that Rambaldi is somewhat similar to Da Vinci, who (Da Vinci) is a real historical figure. Besides The Da Vinci Code was published in 2003. Alias has been running with this storyline since 2001. And you should give Brown a shot. While some of the stuff might be implausible and various parts are controversial, they are good works of fiction and I enjoyed them both. What you say about the Illuminatis with Antimatter above is not exactly true and there are circumstances to how things of that sort come about. K1Bond007 19:44, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

OK, so maybe Alias ripped off the conspiracy buffs that Dan Brown also ripped off. Whatever. But forget about trying to make me a Dan Brown fan. A long time ago, a friend forced me to read Illuminatus, and that used up all my patience for lame gnostic conspiracy theories. ---Isaac R 20:17, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Why do you feel Alias ripped off anybody at all? Theres no evidence to come to any sort of conclusion like that. Absolute nonsense. I'm sorry. K1Bond007 21:37, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Excerpts from the biography of MILO Giacomo RAMBALDI b. 1444 - d. 1496

Prophet and Seer...Psychic and Alchemist

Born in Parma in 1444, Rambaldi was educated by monks of the Vespertine order, and until the age of 12, was self-employed as a painter, sculptor and student of the arts. Introduced to Cardinal Alexander of the Roman Catholic church, during his travels to Rome at the age of 18, he was retained privately as architect, consultant and prophet, when Alexander became Pope in 1492.

Despite this benefactor's wishes to see Rambaldi prosper, during his lifetime Rambaldi and his works receded from visibility by commandment of Archdeacon Claudio Vespertini, who feared the revolutionary implications of technologies defined in Rambaldi's belief system, and sought to have Rambaldi's works contained and eventually eliminated. He conflicted with Alexander VI on this one matter; a moot point at the time of the Pope's passing in 1503.

Vespertini commanded that the name Rambaldi be "washed" from all monuments and edifices throughout the period of 1470 to 1496, at which time he ordered that the Pope's engineer be excommunicated for heresy, his workshop in Rome be destroyed, and that he be sentenced to death by flame, upon Rambaldi's declaration that science would someday allow us to know God.

Milo Rambaldi died a lonely man, in the Winter of 1496. He had no surviving spouse or heir.

Shortly after Rambaldi's demise, a second, "secret workshop" was discovered, in San Lazzaro, and was systematically torn apart by agents of the Vatican. In a movement to discredit his work and influence, plans and sketches were sold and traded for next to nothing by mandate during a private auction.

Since the 15th century, traces of Rambaldi's enigmatic work have turned up in various places around Italy, France, parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and even a museum warehouse in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1921. The design directive for many of these drawings remains unclear to this day, and has even inspired some impressive forgeries.

Rambaldi is said to have preceded the digital information age by implication of an illustrated "machine code" language as early as 1489, through the introduction of cryptic algorithms (eg, compression) around his use of pre-binary 1's and 0's. Many of his drawings and documentation are written in multiple languages ranging from Italian and Demotic hybrids, to elusive mixtures of symbols (pre-masonic cipher encryptions).

Rambaldi created the earliest known watermark on all of his papers, known as the "eye" of Rambaldi, and which show up to the naked eye only when held to black light. His waterpapers were all hand-made and of a unique polymer fiber (similar to onion skin), and possessing a consistency that has lived and aged well-beyond its era, and in under (oftentimes) adverse storage conditions. His watermark (the eye "<o>") is so far the only test of accuracy against the slew of falsifications and forgeries, which have also arisen in a revisionist era, culminating with several prime examples of digital piracy. So far there have been 102 known forgeries in balance to the total of 22 known and documented sketches.

Documents interpreting Rambaldi's designs and teachings were highly sought-after during the Third Reich, during Adolf Hitler's paranoid scavenger hunt for occult and theoretical knowledge. During this period, the epithet "Nostravinci" became part of the fuhrer's private lexicon -- a personalized short-hand for the name Rambaldi, in auctioneering circles where the desire for the seer's work still proved competitive.

Rambaldi's works are still, to this day, formally unpublished, due to a consistent international ban on the name Rambaldi, its fascistic legacy, and especially its lack of visibility; it has been alleged that a conspiracy of containment precedes many of these twentieth-century discoveries, even that the knowledge contained under private sanctioning of his documents remains under the firm "hand" of the Trilateral Commission.

In 1988, a rudimentary schematic unearthed in one private collector's home in Brazil, indicated on the back, a diagramme for a transportable vocal communicator revealed the design and workings of contemporary cellular phone technologies.

Since March of 2001, (KDir Classifications Director) Olgi C. Krystovnich (b. 1964, Russian historian and cryptologist) happened upon one of Rambaldi's earliest designs, ca. 1460, located and released from a personal collection in Madrid. In this drawing, she identified a prototype that reflected the properties and composition of a 20th century transistor design.

The remainder of Rambaldi's oeuvre remains forgotten, and much of it has been destroyed, with much uncertainty remaining as to how many notebooks he might have filled during the fifty-four years of his life.

text from Followers of Rambaldi Website

[edit] Biography by 206.208.110.32

Someone 206.208.110.32 added extensive details about Rambaldi's life. I don't know where he got it, but he claimed that he was real, and added many details on his life and work. This addition was deleted by Maveric149 without reason (maybe was considered silly conspiracy theories?) Whatever the reason, the whole information was very interesting. Maybe it should be restored? 62.74.7.14 19:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

It was deleted for being a copyright violation. It was a straight copy and paste, which Wikipedia does not allow. K1Bond007 20:41, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

It should also be noted that Rambaldi is a work of pure fiction, seemingly derived at least in part from (the very real) Leonardo Da Vinci. I thought he might exist, too - until I checked the Alias TV Site.

Relevant portion:

Who is Milo Rambaldi? It seems that SD-6 and the CIA have been spending a lot of time lately trying to figure out his mysterious works. See the fictional site of his followers at Followers of Rambaldi.

It should be dually noted that the address for the "history" page: http://www.dayfornight.com/dev/abc/followersoframbaldi/rambaldi.html contains the acronym ABC, the station that initially aired Alias. Orethrius 09:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

How much of this section is actually from canon sources? Otto4711 20:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, after having the edit about Rambaldi being real popping up again, I cleared out the apparently nonsensical material from the biography section. If anything I took out is actually canon from the TV show, I apologize.Otto4711 09:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Known Rambaldi Artifacts

I've added a section and listed those artifacts that I recall off the top of my head. Most don't signify to a degree that requires a separate page, I don't think (except for the Mueller device which already has one) but if their function is known should be included. Please add to the list, but to clear up one thing that's been popping up on Alias pages all over the place: The Horizon is not the same as the Sphere of Life. The SoL was recovered by Nadia and Sloane in the time between season 3 and season 4, while The Horizon was recovered by Irina in season 5. Otto4711 18:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to further suggest that the list be in chronological order of discovery/mention on the show, since a number of the artifacts lead to other artifacts. Otto4711 20:12, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rambaldi's Endgame

I've added a section to clarify Rambaldi's endgame up. If there are any errors, which I don't believe there are, please simply edit the section rather than deleting it because of wrong errors.

[edit] www.rambaldidvd.com

Noticed a Google Ad for this on one of my sites. We might want to mention this. It's a cool trivia site (or something, I dunno, lol). Viper007Bond 22:00, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Alias Eye of Rembaldi IntroScreen.JPG

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