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how republics die: don’t blame the mob
How republics die.We should not make the mistake of assuming that democracies are immortal. Goverments do change, and not always for the better, and countries do sometimes vanish from the map. What kills representative governments? It is not always the … Continue reading
essence of comedy: the geese
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect; where hedonism replaces heroism, and the thirst for glory is seen as the repair of the fool. The tragic hero dies for what is nobler in the mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sandro Botticelli
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laff tracks : avoiding the food for worms fate
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura,” or nature over intellect, laughing matter over mind, what is livelier in the flesh over what is nobler in the mind. Who needs intangibles. And the happiest tale … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Davide Ghirlandaio, henry goddard psychologist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Odysseus, Paolo Conte, Robert Smirke paintings, Shakespeare Falstaff, Shakespeare Henry IV, Shakespeare Hotspur
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finding his way to Him
Saint Francis set us straight about the democracy of all God’s creatures, but he still enjoyed a pig’s foot stew and never thought of becoming a vegetarian…. In October, 1224, Saint Francis of Assisi descended from Mount La Verna, where … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Leopardi, Berlinghieri Saint Francis, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Chiara San Damiano, Dante Alighieri, hermitage of the Portiuncula, Honorius III, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montale Italian poet, Petrarch, Poor Clares order of nuns, Pyramus-and-Thisbe, Saint Francis, Saint Francis and Chiara, Saint Francis of Assissi, Tommaso da Celano
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hail mary: the secret language of words
Very contrary about this Mary story. Religion, refugees claimants and hipsters. the congregation is convened. Was there a second sitting for the Last Supper? Can Albrecht Durer’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne be termed “religious trivia” within the context … Continue reading
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Tagged adrian humphrey, Albrecht Durer, anna pape IRB, Christopher Hitchens, Dante Alighieri, Ghent Altarpiece, Giorgio Vasari, james frazer the golden bough, Jan van Eyck, Jonathan Jones Guardian, roy buchanan, shelley levine lawyer, Sir james Robert Fraser
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variations of hell: a ramshackle affair
Whenever Hieronymus Bosch deals with hell and the devils, he repeats this master idea with many variations: the idea that they are illogical, disorderly, incomprehensible, and mad. When we hear that Saint Anthony was tempted in the desert, we expect … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Dante Alighieri, Dante Inferno, Diego Rivera, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Johan Huizinga, Larry Solomom, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Meisler
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revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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trilogy of a divine comedy: purgatory, passion and produce
Measured against the accelerating transformation of our own society, the Renaissance seems like a relatively minor cultural revolution in the history of humanity.Futurologists like Alvin Toffler suggest that the changing conditions of life we are now experiencing are so profound … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Arcimboldo, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Edmund Dulac, George Grosz, Giotto, Giotto di Bordone, Giotto Frescoes, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymous Bosch, Jack Rusher, Jape, Jape floating, Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Robert Fulford, RObert Stevenhagen, Roberto Bolano, Saint Francis of Assisi, Salvador dali, Sam Fell, Sylvio Leidi, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, William Blake
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