CODEX SERAPHINIANUS DECODED.
For forty-five years, the Codex Seraphinianus has been the world's most beautiful unread book. Luigi Serafini's illustrated encyclopaedia of an alien world. 359 pages of impossible plants, surreal animals, bizarre machines, and anatomies that could never exist has captivated readers since 1981. The script that fills its pages is flowing, hypnotic, and, Serafini claimed, entirely meaningless. He was lying. Using Marco Ponzi's neural-network transliteration of 41,107 Serafini words, morphological analysis of an agglutinative grammar, and a 72-band frequency translation framework, this book presents the first complete English translation of the Codex Seraphinianus, page by page, chapter by chapter. Inside: