Annius de Viterbo
A learned ecclesiastic, born at Viterbo in 1432, who, either deceived himself, or a deceiver of others, published a collection of manuscripts full of fables and absurdities, falsely attributed to Berosus, Fabius Victor, Cato, Manettio and others, and known under the name of The Antiquities of Annius. He was also responsible for a treatise on The Empire of the Turks, and a book on the Future Triumphs of the Christians over the Turks and the Saracens, etc. These two works are explanations of the Apocalypse. The author claims that Mahomet is the Antichrist, and that the end of the world will take place when the Christians will have overcome the Jews and the Mohammedans, which event did not appear to him to be far distant.