Nicolas Antonio, Censura de historias fabulosas (Valencia, 1742)

The book in which a Spanish canon and royal fiscal took apart the most successful forgeries in Spanish history - the chronicles fathered on Flavio Dextro, Marco Maximo, Luitprando and Julian Perez - by tracing their provenance to one man, weighing testimony by quality rather than number, and catching them contradicting each other on dates. Begun in 1652 and never finished, it was printed in 1742, fifty-eight years after his death.