Father Ernetti's Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine (original title in ) by Peter Krassa is a 1997 book about Pellegrino Ernetti

Pellegrino Ernetti

Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti was an Italian Roman Catholic Benedictine priest and is the most famous exorcist who worked in the Venice area.- Early life :...

, a Benedictine monk

Benedictine

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 who claimed to have developed a time machine

Time travel

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, the "Chronovisor". Father Marcello Pellegrino Maria Ernetti stated that he watched Christ

Christ

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 dying on the cross

Crucifixion of Jesus

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, and attended a performance of a previously unknown play by the Roman

Ancient Rome

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 playwright

Playwright

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 Quintus Ennius

Ennius

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. It includes an appendix with the Latin

Latin

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text of the Ernetti Thyestes fragment, reputed to be an excerpt from a lost play by Quintus Ennius. The book was translated from the German by Miguel Jones, and published by New Paradigm Books in 2000.