had failed spectacularly with the flooding of the Florentinian's own camp and led to the humiliation of not only Brunelleschi but the whole of Florence. Manetti's Inferno consists of a cone-shaped region, the vertex of which is centred and its base centred on Jerusalem. Manetti proposes a direct line from the center of the earth, simultaneously the heaviest part of the universe, to Jerusalem. An arc extends from Jerusalem over the earth and water to a twelfth part of its circumference. One end of this arc will touch Jerusalem, while the other end of this arc will be connected to the center of the earth by a straight line. These two straight lines will form the sector of a circle, which if moved in a circle and cutting through the earth would reveal a cone like hole; the Inferno. Manetti's levels of the Inferno are arranged regularly, being 1/8 of the earth's circumference apart between each level. Galileo calculated that this would lead to a diameter of 405 miles of the cone at its surface and with that being much larger in size than Vellutello's Inferno. Manetti himself never published his investigation into Dante's inferno, his findings were instead published by Girolamo Benevieni in his Dialogo de Antonio Manetti. The Fat Woodworker The Fat Woodworker or Fat Woodcarver (IT.: Novella del Grasso Legnajulo) is a humorous book in the beffe tradition. The book tells the tale of a cruel and juvenile prank played on a woodworker named Manetto by Filipo Brunelleschi. The story is set in the year 1409 in Florence around influential men of the public life. The tale introduces the reader to the social scene of artists and artisanal workers in Florence, while setting up Brunelleschi as a questionable hero. These men often eat dinner together, but one night a woodworker named Manetto is absent from the group. The men interpret this as a slight by Manetto, who is described as having a simple mind. The men decide to play a prank on Manetto as a punishment for his refusal of the dinner invitation. Filipo Brunelleschi comes up with the idea to convince Manetto that he has become another person, after convincing the other men that he is simple enough to believe this. Brunelleschi goes about his plan and is able to convince Manetto that he has indeed become another person. The story follows Manetto's internal confusion while