Pointing to Bacon as Shakespeare
CRYPTOMENYTICES et Cryptographiae, a 1624 book on codes and secrets that draws largely on an earlier work by Johannes Trithemius called Steganographia, is said on the elaborately engraved title-page shown left to be the work of one Gustavus Selenus.
That is in fact a pseudonym used by Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg, who as well as…