1920 – Benno von Archimboldi born in Prussia
1956 – Piero Morini born near Naples
1961 – Jean-Claude Pelletier is born
1964 – The Berlin Underworld is published in Rome
1968 – Liz Norton is born
1969 – Colossimo translates The Leather Mask
1971 – Rivers of Europe is published in Italy
1973 – Inheritance is published in Italy
1975 – Railroad Perfection is published in Italy
1976 – Morini reads Archimboldi for the first time
25 Dec 1980 – Jean-Claude Pelletier reads Archimboldi for the first time
1981 – Pelletier discovers two more Archimboldi books
1983 – Pelletier begins translating D’Arsonval
1984 – Pelletier’s translation of D’Arsonval is published in Paris
1986 – Pelletier is a professor of German in Paris
1988 – Morini translates Bifurcaria Bifurcata into Italian
1988 – Liz Norton lives in Berlin for three months, first reads Archimboldi
1989 – Pelletier and Morini meet at a conference in Leipzig
1990 – Manuel Espinoza receives his doctorate in German literature
1990 – Pelletier and Morini meet Espinoza at a forum in Zurich
1991 – Morini translates Saint Thomas into Italian
1991 – Espinoza sees Pelletier at a conference in Maastricht
1992 – Pelletier, Espinoza, and Morini meet at a seminar in Augsburg
January 1992 – Pelletier and Espinoza attend a conference in Paris
1993 – Pelletier, Espinoza, and Morini attend a conference in Bologna
1994 – Morini, Pelletier, Espinoza, and Norton first meet at a German literature conference in Bremen
December 1994 – the four critics attend a conference in Avignon
1995 – the four critics attend a conference in Amsterdam
1996 – the four critics attend a conference in Salzburg
December 1996 – Morini has a nightmare about Norton diving into a pool
