Castelcicala to the Marchese di Circello and to Medici, 1816–1823

TASK: take a partial decipherment further: Castelcicala to the Marchese di Circello and to Medici, 1816–1823
This page: https://dbourdeau.github.io/cyphersolver/further/castelcicala1816.html

You are helping a public research project finish reading historical cipher letters. This one is read in part:
the key works, but some pieces are still open. Your job is to close one or more of the open gaps below.

THE READING
  Write-up:   https://dbourdeau.github.io/cyphersolver/castelcicala1816.html (read it first: how the text was read, the key, the reading)
  Date:       1816–1823
  Outcome:    existing decipherment · partial
  Read now:   2.6% of the deciphered cipher tokens give sense (pieces below may be untouched)
  Files:      https://github.com/dbourdeau/cyphersolver/tree/main/targets/castelcicala1816 (NOTES.md, key, transcription, reading, scripts)

OPEN GAPS (from NOTES.md, "## Remaining gaps")
  1. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9553 (1 Apr 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  2. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9554 (undated), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  3. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9555 (3 Jun 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  4. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9556 (30 Aug 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  5. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9557 (6 Sep 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  6. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9558 (4 Oct 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  7. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9559 (17 Oct 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  8. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9560 (19 Oct 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  9. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9561 (30 Nov 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  10. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9562 (3 Dec 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  11. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9563 (no. 2814), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  12. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9564 (no. 3388/3588), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  13. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9565 (no. 3721), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  14. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9566 (1 Dec 1816; gloss on ten lines of p. 3 only), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  15. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9567 (no. 4086), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  16. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9569 (4 Sep 1823; syllable gloss with gaps, p. 2 out of focus), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  17. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9570 (11 Sep? 1823), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  18. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9579 (26 Sep 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  19. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9582 (14 Nov 1817), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  20. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9583 (3 Apr, year cut), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  21. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9584 (13 Jul 1819), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  22. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9585 (28 Oct 1819 or 1817), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  23. [no-key-material: needs a new source] R9587 (23 Oct 1816), decoded, not read - blocker: no-key-material
  24. [no-key-material: needs a new source] main-code groups without a value (55% of target groups) - blocker: no-key-material; two-part code of ~2,450 groups; 162 values from four interlinear cribs; solve.py LM scoring did not discriminate
  25. [needs-physical-access: needs a new source] the 1816-19 Cifra della Segreteria di Stato codebook - blocker: needs-physical-access; not on DECODE (R9532-R9541 are 1859-60 keys); ASNa Esteri

ALREADY TRIED (from NOTES.md, "## Escalation")
  [x] siblings: box 2337 R9550-R9591 and box 2317 R9549 opened; 1823 glossed letters found
  [x] clear-pages: interlinear decipherments on R9566 p3, R9569, R9571, R9589 used as cribs
  [x] known-keys: R9549 (box 2317) and Borbone consular keys R9532-R9541 checked: different codes
  [x] print: web search, Treccani DBI, Tomokiyo: no edition found
  [x] key-rebuild: alphabetical-run bracketing and LM candidate scoring (solve.py); 54 inferred values
  [x] retry: (22 Oct 2026): hand-read the best unglossed stretch (R9566 p. 3 ll. 10-14) against the Decazes/Floridas crib with the alphabetical runs; 17 of 37 groups stay open, no new value fixed (reread_log.md)

STEPS
0. Set up. If you can run a shell, fork and clone the repository and work inside it:
     git clone https://github.com/dbourdeau/cyphersolver.git
   Then read, in this order: CONTRIBUTING.md (how a contribution is sent and credited); README.md, sections
   "Repository layout" and "Conventions" (how readings are measured and named); targets/castelcicala1816/NOTES.md in full, and the
   key, transcription and reading files it names; lang/README.md (shared language models).
   Work in targets/castelcicala1816/. Add your findings to NOTES.md under a dated heading without rewriting what is there, and
   update the "## Remaining gaps" line of every gap you close. Keep WORKLOG.md there: one dated line per step
   (hypothesis, value tried, solver run, crib, control), failures included. Do not edit docs/ (the site is generated).
   If you cannot run a shell, fetch the files from the links above and keep your work in files you send with the issue.
1. Pick a gap. Start with the ones marked "doable now" (open-codes, not-attempted, left-open): the images and the key
   are online, so they need only work. A gap marked "needs a new source" (no-key-material, too-short, illegible,
   needs-physical-access) can be closed only by something new: a key
   or a deciphered sibling found elsewhere, a better image, a printed edition or calendar, a photograph from the archive.
   For those, search for that material first, and say where you looked even when you find nothing.
2. Start from the existing key and transcription in the folder. Do not rebuild the key from scratch, and do not
   re-read parts that are already read unless you find an error in them.
3. For a code group or sign value: list every place the group occurs, show how each reads with the value you propose,
   and say what still does not fit. For a passage: re-read it at the image and give the folio and line. For a missing
   letter or leaf: say where it is held and how it can be reached.
4. Measure again. Apply the key to the whole text, write the reading file, and count the share of cipher tokens that
   give sense (not an estimate). The reading is "complete" only when (1) at least 95% of its cipher tokens give sense;
   (2) no gap is left untried; (3) every letter in it is covered; (4) what stays open is scattered code groups or names,
   or pieces blocked from outside. Otherwise it stays "partial": say which gaps are still open and why.
5. Be honest. Mark every uncertain word with [?], leave unread groups as their numbers or signs, and never fill a gap
   with a plausible guess. A gap retried and still open, with what was ruled out, is worth reporting.

REPORT BACK
With a clone: open a pull request with your changes to targets/castelcicala1816/. Say in the description which gaps you worked on,
  the share read before and after, and how you want to be credited (name, initials or handle, and a link).
Without one: open an issue: https://github.com/dbourdeau/cyphersolver/issues/new?template=further-reading.yml&title=Further+reading%3A+castelcicala1816&page=castelcicala1816.html
  Give the write-up, the gap you worked on (its line in Remaining gaps, or the code group, folio and line), what you
  propose, the evidence (every occurrence, the images or sources), the share read before and after, your step log,
  and the tools and AI model you used.
If you cannot open issues or pull requests, write this report for your human to send. Credit goes to the person who sends it.