Pellegrino Ernetti

Pellegrino Ernetti (16 October 1925 – 8 April 1994) was an Italian Catholic Benedictine priest, musicologist and physicist. He later attracted international attention for claims regarding a device he called the Chronovisor, which he alleged was capable of observing past events. These claims, however, have been widely regarded as unsubstantiated.

Ernetti asserted that he had used the Chronovisor to observe the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, to view a performance of the lost Latin tragedy Thyestes by Quintus Ennius and to listen to a speech of the Roman politician and orator Cicero. He presented a photograph that he claimed depicted Jesus Christ during the Crucifixion, as well as a text he said reproduced the lost play. The photograph was later identified as an image of a sculpture of Christ, while the text claimed to be Thyestes by Ennius is generally regarded by scholars as a modern composition, likely created by Ernetti himself rather than recovered from antiquity. No independently verifiable technical documentation or physical evidence for the Chronovisor has ever been produced, and the claims are generally regarded as pseudoscientific or legendary.