Thanks for the link to "The Egyptian Revival." It looks interesting. I quoted the attribution to Filelfo in Filarete already, in
posting.php?mode=reply&f=12&t=881#pr12844. But I didn't have a page reference.
Thanks of course for agreeing with me. However I must make a slight correction. Looking again, I see that the quote about bees and their sting wasn't from Horapollo. It was from Ammianus , a Roman text that talked about hieroglyphs. I misread my earlier post (
http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php? ... stcount=43). I have no independent proof that Filelfo had Ammianus. But Horapollo and Ammianus came to the attention of Poggio, Niccoli, and the other manuscript hunters in Florence around the same time. Filelfo probably had Ammianus as well as Harapollo.