#Luigi Pulci

[italian-lit-tournament]

Italian literature tournament - Second round.

Propaganda in support of the authors is accepted, you can write it both in the tag if reblog the poll (explaining maybe that is propaganda and you want to see posted) or in the comments. Every few days it will be recollected and posted here under the cut.

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

This drama is juicy and will never not be fascinating.

I think there was something deeply personal in their rivalry, for sure, but I agree that it stems from a fundamental divergence of personal life philosophies and belief systems.

And it's interesting because as we know, Ficino was just as interested in the occult as Pulci, and also incorporated it into his belief system (catholicism being syncretic or at least malleable to a lot of pagan practices of that time). But I think the crux is that Ficino remained, at heart, a good Catholic who believed in God and the church's teachings. Pulci was none of that and he attacked Ficino for his earnestly held beliefs and we know how Ficino gets his back up over that.

[enionline]

Luigi Pulci, figura di rilevanza, rappresenta un interessante nodo di collegamento tra Lorenzo de' Medici e Roberto Sanseverino.

[t-annhauser]

Doppia origine etimologica dell'organo genitale maschile, il dualismo fallo/pene.

Fallo "dal greco φαλλός-phallós, da connettersi alla radice del sanscrito phalati (= germogliare, fruttificare) o alla radice della lingua protoindoeuropea bʰel-phal (= gonfiare, gonfiarsi)." Ottimo: riuscissero a infilarci anche che spruzza, abbiamo fatto tredici. Pene è latino per coda (penis), ma anche delle cose che pendono (pendŭlus). Cazzo è lombardo: "cazz e cuccé [mestoli e cucchiai] - quel primo in cul ti stia!" (sonetto di Luigi Pulci). Dal latino cattia, mestolo, e forse dal greco antico kyáthion, "mestolino". In uso anche da Leopardi: «Non mi dir più che m'abbia cura, perché son guarito e sano come un pesce in grazia dell'aver fatto a modo mio, cioè non aver usato un cazzo di medicamenti.» (Giacomo Leopardi, Lettere al fratello Carlo, Roma - 5 febbraio 1823).

Minchia, "dal latino mencla, forma volgare di mentula, che indica il pene. In latino, la radice men indica una sporgenza, il motivo di parole come mento e monte."

Uccello, "Il pene è chiamato anche 'uccello' poiché in stato di flaccidità sormonta due 'uova' come nella posa della cova" (fonte incerta).

Pistola, "dal fr. pistole che, attrav. il ted. Pistole, è forse dal cèco pištal «canna»". Pisello, per via del baccello, vedi anche fava. ecc. ecc.

[teal-skull]

Hate my Leonardo da Vinci obsession.

I went to wikipedia to find a specific crude sketch from Leonardo's journals to make a meme and suddenly I found my way into Salai's italian wikipedia article and now I'm going the rabbit hole about Luigi Pulci's Il Morgante to confirm a footnote in Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo da Vinci. According to it, Salai's (who was Leonardo's apprentice/servant/model/lover depending on your opinion) nickname (his real name was Gian Giacomo Caprotti, and he used alias Andrea Salai sometimes) means "little devil" and the term "salai" is derivative from Tuscan dialect mening "The devil's foot/leg" (I think the expression was "Il Salaino or something??) , But then he adds that the name comes from a DEMON in the epic Morgante. I took this to mean that there is a demon character in the novel (sometimes I realized as false only later)

(another fact about Salai's name is that sometimes it's spelled as Salaí, so it becomes Sa-la-i, instead of Sa-lai)

A detail I want to point out is that Leonardo had Il Morgante in his library, and it's included in his list of books he owns. So yes it's very possible Leonardo would've taken the name from there.

The funny this is that I have already went down this rabbit hole like year prior, but it ended abruptly without conclusion because I'm that type if person who starts something and then abandons it.

HOWEVER what I did find last time was that the only named demon character I've been able to find is Astarotte. So I was growing skeptical about the "salai's nickname comes from Il Morgnte" as a whole. No matter where I looked, there was no mention of a character named Salai.

But then after like.... Months into this thing plaquing me, and "researching" it on and off, I found this:

XXI 47 7 (Canto Ventunesimo) 

I don't speak italian besides individual words so obviously I had no idea what the context was. However, at this point I realized to check my university library for any edition of Il Morgnte, and I managed to find a very fancy Italian edition. However I was bumped when I google translated the paragraph and it seemed that Salai did not refer to any particular character in the novel, rather, it's just a comparison "as does Salai in the fall" I guess there is a Salai named demon in the epic but like .. it's not a character technically.

TODAY i digged up these again because I was reminded of this, and saw that there was a footnore about "salay" in this page I had taken a picture of like over a year ago. Before the footnote had gone unnoticed for me, oh the regret is hitting...

According to machine translation that footnote 7. Explains that Salay refers to "other infernal power" and fallen angels (so demons at least)

WHICH IS FUNNY because I started to go down this rabit hole again because the Italian wikipedia article of Salai also mentions Salai's name coming from Il Morgante, but there it's said that: "the expression is used to evoke an infernal power" (Nell'opera L'espressione è impiegata oer evocare una potenza infernale)

So um.... I've wasted many hours of my finite life to confirm this little nuget of information. Idk where I'm going anymore.

Thanks for reading about my decent into insanity I guess

If any Italian speakers have anything they'd like to add or point out, please tell me!

[iliiuan]

Epic Fantasy through the Ages

A Chronology of Story

This is a work in progress, but here is my list as of 6 July 2023. Please feel free to send me additions or corrections. I have focused on epic (works that are long and took a long time to create) and fantasy (works that include an element of magic, the supernatural, or superpowers). Some of the list could be categorized as myth, some as Literature™️, some as science fiction, but beyond these categories are the two main criteria of epic and fantasy. I also don't fully know what all of the ancient to modern works encompass, but that's the fun of read and find out. I probably have added some things that don't properly meet my criteria, and that's fine with me. 🌺

Works by Mesopotamian Bards (3100 BC - 539 BC)

Enumah Elish (Epic of Creation)

Atrahasis (The Flood)

Epic of Gilgamesh

Descent of Ishtar

Epic of Erra

Etana

Adapa

Anzu

Nergel and Ereshkigal

Avesta by Zoroastrian Bards (1500 BC)

Ramayana by Valmiki (750+ BC)

Mahabharata by Vayasa (750+ BC)

The Illiad and the Odyssey by Homer (650+ BC)

Thoegeny; Works and Days by Hesiod (650+ BC)

Popol Vuh (4th century BC)

The Torah and other Jewish stories (4th century BC)

Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (270 BC)

Bellum Punicam by Gnaeus Naevius (200 BC)

Annales by Ennius (170 BC)

De Rerum Natura by Lucretius (50 BC)

Poem 64 by Catullus (50 BC)

The Aenid by Virgil (19 BC)

Metamorphoses by Ovid (2 AD)

Punica by Silius Italicus (50 AD)

Satyrica by Petronius (60 AD)

Pharsalia or Bellum Civile by Lucan (62 AD)

Argonautica by Valerius Flaccus (70 AD)

Thebaid by Statius (90 AD)

The Irish Myth Cycles: Mythological, Ulster, Fenian, and Kings (3rd Century AD)

The Bible and other Christian stories (5th century AD)

Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis (500 AD)

The Quran and other Muslim stories (7th century AD)

Arabian Nights (7th century AD)

Hildebrandslied and other German heroic lays by Bards (830 AD)

Shahnameh by Ferdowsi (977 or 1010 AD)

Chanson de Roland (1125 AD)

Cantar de Mio Sid (1200 AD)

The Dietrich Cycle (1230 AD)

Poetic Edda and Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson and others (1270 AD)

Beowulf by Old English Bards (11th century AD)

Nibelungenlied by Middle High German Bards (1200)

Amadís de Gaula (13th century AD)

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri (1308)

Teseida by Bocaccio (1340 AD)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Middle English Bards (14th century)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1392)

Morgante by Luigi Pulci (1483)

Le morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory (1485)

Orlando Innamorato by Boiardo (1495)

Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1516)

Os Lusiadas by Camoes (1572)

Gerusalemme Liberata by Tasso (1581)

Plays and Poems by William Shakespeare (1589)

The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spencer (1590)

Discourses on the Heroic Poem by Tasso (1594)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1614)

L'Adone by Marino (1623)

Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained by Milton (1667)

Le Lutrin by Boileau (1674)

Order and Disorder by Lucy Hutchinson (1679)

Mac Flecknoe; Aenid English translation by Dryden (1682)

The Dispensary bu Samuel Garth (1699)

The Battle of the Books; A Tale of a Tub by Swift (1704)

The Rape of the Lock; Illiad and Odyssey English translations; Dunciad by Pope (1714)

The Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson (1749)

Scribleriad by Richard Owen Cambridge (1751)

Faust by Goethe (1772)

The Triumphs of Temper; Essay on Epic Poetry by William Hayley (1782)

The Task by William Cowper (1785)

Joan of Arc; Thalaba the Destroyer; Madoc; The Curse of Kehama by Southey (1796)

The Prelude; The Execution by Wordsworth (1799)

Jerusalem by Blake (1804)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge (1817)

Laon and Cythna; Peter Bell the Third; Prometheus Unbound by Shelley (1817)

Hyperion: A Fragment; The Fall of Hyperion by Keats (1818)

Don Juan by Byron (1819)

The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot (1835)

Sohrah and Rustum by Matthew Arnold (1853)

Hiawatha by Longfellow (1855)

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855)

Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1859)

Cantos by Ezra Pound (1917)

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (1922)

Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion etc. by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (1946)

The White Goddess by Robert Graves (1948)

Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1949)

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (1950)

Anathemata by David Jones (1952)

Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)

The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper (1965)

Briggflatts by Basil Bunting (1965)

Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (1968)

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (1968)

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (1970)

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (1976)

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson (1977)

The Magic of Xanth by Piers Anthony (1977)

Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf (1980)

The Dark Tower by Stephen King (1982)

Belgariad and Mellorean by David Eddings (1982)

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1982)

Shannara by Terry Brooks (1982)

The Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist (1982)

Discworld by Terry Pratchett (1983)

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (1984)

Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)

The Black Company (1984)

Redwall by Brian Jaques (1986)

Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey (1987)

Memory, Sorrow, Thorn by Tad Williams (1988)

Sandman by Neil Gaimon (1989)

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (1990)

Queen of Angels by Greg Bear (1990)

Newford by Charles de Lint (1990)

Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)

The Saga of Recluse by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (1991)

The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski (1993)

Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind (1994)

Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb (1995)

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (1995)

Old Kingdom by Garth Nix (1995)

A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (1996)

Animorphs by H.A. Applegate (1996)

Crown of Stars by Kate Elliott (1997)

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (1997)

The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steve Erickson (1999)

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (2000)

The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini (2002)

Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker (2003)

Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud (2003)

The Gentlemen Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch (2004)

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (2005)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (2005)

Temeraire by Naomi Novik (2006)

The First Law by Joe Abercrombie (2006)

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (2006)

The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss (2007)

Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2008)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008)

Graceling by Kristin Cashore (2008)

Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan (2008)

Night Angel by Brent Weeks (2008)

The Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett (2008)

Inheritance by N.K. Jemisin (2010)

The Lightbringer by Brent Weeks (2010)

The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson (2010)

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (2011)

The Broken Empire by Mark Lawrence (2011)

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (2012)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (2012)

Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo (2012)

The Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron (2012)

Worm by Wildbow (2013)

The Powder Mage by Brian McClellan (2013)

The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin (2015)

Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston (2015)

The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee (2017)

The Band Series by Nicholas Eames (2017)

Winternight by Katherine Arden (2017)

The Folk of the Air by Holly Black (2018)

The Founders by Robert Jackson Bennett (2018)

The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir (2019)

Grave of Empires by Sam Sykes (2019)

Djeliya by Juni Ba (2021)

[dosartistas]

(vía La historia del artista Alberto Martini).

Alberto Martini (1876-1954), uno de los más grandes ilustradores italianos del siglo XX,: textos de Dante Alighieri y Luigi Pulci, y también de Edgar Allan Poe y William Shakespeare.

Alberto Martini, Vanitas con autorretrato, 1920. Cortesía Galleria Carlo Virgilio.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.15

Beer Birthdays

Adam Eulberg (1835)

Christian Benjamin Feigenspan (1844)

Charles D. Goepper (1860)

Christine Celis (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Julia Child; chef, writer (1912)

Stieg Larsson; Swedish writer (1954)

Jennifer Lawrence; actor (1990)

Oscar Peterson; Canadian jazz pianist (1925)

Walter Scott; Scottish poet, writer (1771)

Famous Birthdays

Ben Affleck; actor (1972)

Tommy Aldridge; drummer (1950)

Ethel Barrymore; actor (1879)

Leonard Baskin; sculptor (1922)

Marion Bauer; composer (1882)

Robert Bolt; English playwright, screenwriter (1924)

Napoleon Bonaparte; French emperor, soldier (1769)

Estelle Brody; silent film actress (1900)

Jim Brothers; sculptor (1941)

Jan Brzechwa; Polish author and poet (1898)

Bobby Byrd; singer-songwriter (1934)

Bobby Caldwell; singer-songwriter (1951)

Cadence Carter; pornstar (1996)

Lillian Carter; Jimmy Carter's mother (1898)

Judy Cassab; Austrian-Australian painter (1920)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; English composer (1875)

Tom Colicchio; chef (1962)

Charles Comiskey; baseball player and manager (1859)

Leslie Comrie; New Zealand astronomer (1893)

Mike Connors; actor (1925)

Gerty Cori; Czech-American biochemist and physiologist (1896)

Walter Crane; English artist (1845)

Jim Dale; English actor (1935)

Abby Dalton; actress (1932)

Louis de Broglie; French physicist (1892)

Régine Deforges; French author (1935)

Thomas de Quincey; English writer (1785)

Linda Ellerbee; television journalist (1944)

Edna Ferber; writer (1885)

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen; writer (1787)

Huntz Hall; actor (1919)

Signe Hasso; Swedish-American actress (1915)

Richard F. Heck; chemist (1931)

Bobby Helms; singer (1933)

Natasha Henstridge; actor (1974)

Wendy Hiller; actor (1912)

Wolfgang Hohlbein; German author (1953)

Stix Hooper; jazz drummer (1938)

Jacques Ibert; French composer (1890)

Blind Jack; English engineer (1717)

Tom Johnston; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Julius Katchen; pianist and composer (1926)

George Klein; Canadian inventor of the motorized wheelchair (1904)

Aleksey Krylov; Russian mathematician and engineer (1863)

T.E. Lawrence; Welsh writer (1888)

Rose Maddox; singer-songwriter and fiddle player (1925)

Rose Marie; comedian, actor (1923)

Debra Messing; actor (1968)

Sami Michael; Iraqi-Israeli author and playwright (1926)

Giorgos Mouzakis; Greek trumpet player (1922)

E. Nesbit; English author and poet (1858)

Pyotr Novikov; Russian mathematician (1901)

Paul Outerbridge; photographer (1896)

Inês Pedrosa; Portuguese writer (1962)

Bill Pinkney, American pop singer (1925)

Luigi Pulci; Italian poet (1432)

Paul Rand; graphic designer (1914)

Nicholas Roeg; film director (1928)

Mike Seeger; folk musician and folklorist (1933)

John Silber; philosopher (1926)

Leo Theremin; Russian inventor (1896)

Rob Thomas; author (1965)

Jack Tworkov; Polish-American painter (1900)

Gene Upshaw; Oakland Raiders G (1945)

Mikao Usui; Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (1865)

Jimmy Webb; songwriter (1946)

Hugo Winterhalter; composer and bandleader (1909)

Peter York; rock drummer (1942)

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Efemérides literarias: 15 de agosto

Nacimientos 1432: Luigi Pulci, poeta italiano (f. 1484). 1527: Fray Luis de León, poeta y religioso agustino español (f. 1591). 1771: Walter Scott, escritor británico (f. 1832). 1785: Thomas de Quincey, periodista y escritor británico (f. 1859). 1862: Blanca de los Ríos, escritora y pintora española (f. 1956). 1872: Sri Aurobindo, político, poeta y yogui indio (f. 1950). 1885: Alberto…

[italian-lit-tournament]

The participating authors for the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament: the general list + a google form to add other proposals

Podesti Francesco - Torquato Tasso reading Jerusalem Delivered to the Estensi court

The start of the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament (first edition) is getting closer, but first I want to post the general list of the authors partecipants.

The principal issue is that every literary canon is constantly changing, with more critical studies over the years. I've thought about it, read and searched, and the solution I found has two parts:

I will take the principal authors from this list, which in turn is based from the studies of Gianfranco Contini and Asor Rosa. The list is too long and many names are only chronicles and essayists, so I'll chose the principal ones, trying to balance between north/south Italy and male/female authors (taking into account that many authors that we study are men). As you will see below under the cut, the list is already pretty long, doing some math the challenge will be 2/3 months long.

Still, I recognise that this isn't 100% unbiased and fair, so I opened a free and quick google form when you can add a maximum of two authors that you don't see in the list. This considerable limit is to avoid having too many names - if in some answers I see more than 2 names, I'll take into account only the first 2 listed.

IMPORTANT! 👇

After much thoughts, I also chose to don't include living authors or authors death only recently (before January 2023). The reason is simply to avoid potential issues in the community, like bashing between fandom or admirers of some specific author, or going too far like offending some people near the author still alive or recently deceased. Maybe if this tournament will end well, a second edition could be made next year and maybe with the addition of living authors! (I'm already thinking to do an italian or european cinema tournament in the future but this is still in the draft).

Under the cut, you will find the list of the authors already part of the challenge, name-surname with the surname in alphabetical order. If you don't see a name that you want to see, use the form to add it!

edit: I added the ones from the surbey so far, all in italics. There are names that have been sent but already on the list.

Dante Alighieri

Sibilla Aleramo

Vittorio Alfieri

Cecco Angiolieri

Pietro Aretino

Ludovico Ariosto

Matteo Bandello

Anna Banti

Giambattista Basile

Giorgio Bassani

Cesare Beccaria

Maria Bellonci

Pietro Bembo

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giordano Bruno

Dino Buzzati

Italo Calvino

Andrea Camilleri

Giosuè Carducci

Guido Cavalcanti

Carlo Collodi

Vittoria Colonna

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Giacomo da Lentini

Caterina da Siena

Alba de Céspedes

Cielo (Ciullo) d'Alcamo

Edoardo De Filippo

Federico de Roberto

Grazia Deledda

Umberto Eco

Beppe Fenoglio

Marsilio Ficino

Dario Fo

Ugo Foscolo

Veronica Franco

Carlo Emilio Gadda

Natalia Ginzburg

Carlo Goldoni

Antonio Gramsci

Francesco Guicciardini

Tommaso Landolfi

Giacomo Leopardi

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Carla Lonzi

Niccolò Machiavelli

Alessandro Manzoni

Giovanbattista Marino

Giovanni Meli

Pietro Metastasio

Eugenio Montale

Elsa Morante

Alberto Moravia

Anna Maria Ortese

Giuseppe Parini

Goffredo Parise

Giovanni Pascoli

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cesare Pavese

Francesco Petrarca

Luigi Pirandello

Angelo Poliziano

Luigi Pulci

Salvator Quasimodo

Gianni Rodari

Lalla Romano

Amelia Rosselli

Umberto Saba

Emilio Salgari

Jacopo Sannazaro

Goliarda Sapienza

Leonardo Sciascia

Matilde Serao

Gaspara Stampa

Mario Rigoni Stern

Italo Svevo

Antonio Tabucchi

Torquato Tasso

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Giovanni Verga

Giambattista Vico

Renata Viganò

Elio Vittorini

Giuseppe Ungaretti

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Look who I found on the ceiling of the Uffizi today! I am very charmed by this portrait of him. Look at him scribbling away at his Plato. Bless his little philosophic heart 💜

Also, unfortunately for him, sharing space with Luigi Pulci. Ficino would be annoyed, Pulci would be amused, Lorenzo would want them to stop bothering him with their rivalry.

[enionline]

Col senno, col tesoro e colla lancia.

  Col senno, col tesoro e colla lancia. Riti e giochi cavallereschi nella Firenze del Magnifico Lorenzo Autore: Lucia Ricciardi Prefazione: Franco Cardini Editore: Le Lettere, Collana “Le vie della storia” Anno di pubblicazione: 1992 In questo libro, il cui titolo è ripreso da un passo del “Morgante” di Luigi Pulci, l’autrice Lucia Ricciardi esplora i riti e i giochi cavallereschi nella Firenze…

[giornalepop]

GLI ANTENATI DI ASTERIX E OBELIX SONO ITALIANI

GLI ANTENATI DI ASTERIX E OBELIX SONO ITALIANI

Il fiorentino Luigi Pulci (1435-1484), cortigiano di casa Medici, è stato ambasciatore a Milano, Napoli e Venezia per il condottiero Roberto Sanseverino. I suoi resti sono stati sepolti in terra sconsacrata perché ateo convinto. Per divertire Lorenzo il Magnifico e la madre di lui Lucrezia Tornabuoni ha scritto un poema che faceva la parodia dei romanzi cavallereschi, come le gesta di Orlando, re…

[divinamscientiam]

Unlike many of those born to privilege, Lorenzo did not surround himself with mediocrities whose dim light would allow him to shine more brightly, but preferred the company of those who could stimulate his appetite for knowledge and against whom he could test his own intellect. Topics were varied, ranging from the typically adolescent subjects of women and sport to religion and the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. Trading barbs with the likes of Luigi Pulci or Angelo Poliziano was not a pastime for the intellectually bashful, but in such elevated company, Lorenzo more than held his own.

Magnifico: The brilliant life and violent times of Lorenzo de’ Medici, by Miles J. Unger

[liviaserpieri]

Non si può dir quel ch’un amante faccia     Per ritrovar della dama ogni traccia.

Morgante maggiore, Canto sesto

[mayolfederico]

quindici agosto

Marcia Hafif

  Destino

Se non sono radice e solo questo, ahi, quando si vedranno il mio stelo e i miei fiori, e quando nasceranno i frutti? Quale giorno attende il tempo, quale l’aria, e perché Dio mi vuole lancia oscura nella sua dura terra?

Non è che non voglio più essere radice quando già posso esser tronco, foglie, rami, dei miei fiori più belli. Frutto fra i denti degli…