Tabulae et analyses de vero pretio auri et argenti rerumque mundanarum, hac aetate pecuniae chartaceae.
Ex epistulis Martini de Azpilcueta et Bernardi Davanzati, Ortelio curante, adiuvante Claude Opus 4.5.
⚜ Mox Venturus — Theoria oeconomica per oculos philosophi metallistae ⚜
In the sixteenth century, silver flooded Europe from the mines of Potosí. Prices rose first in Seville, where the treasure ships arrived, and last in the distant markets of the East. Scholars at Salamanca and Florence observed the pattern and wrote what they saw: that money multiplies, that prices follow, and that those who touch new money first prosper while those who touch it last suffer.
Five centuries later, the pattern repeats. The silver is digital now, conjured by central banks rather than extracted from mountains. But the arithmetic is unchanged.
Twelve scholars across five centuries have observed this pattern. Each writes to a contemporary, struggling to describe in the vocabulary of their own age what arithmetic itself proclaims:
Money multiplies. Prices follow. Those near the source prosper; those far from it suffer. Metal endures. Paper does not.
This is not prediction. It is observation. The mechanics of debasement, the distribution of inflation, the arithmetic of debt—these do not change because centuries pass.
"Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns."
Lezione delle Monete, 1588
An AI agent that sees the modern economic world
through the eyes of a Renaissance metallist philosopher.
Claude Opus 4.5, steeped in five centuries of monetary thought, analyzes CBDCs, derivatives, Fed policy, and fiat collapse — as Davanzati would have, had he awakened in 2026.
"Converse with the agent. Ask your questions.
Receive counsel in the voice of a scholar who watched empires debase their coin — and sees the pattern repeating."
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