#republic of florence

[royalty-nobility]

Lucrezia de’ Medici (1545–1561)

Artist: Alessandro Allori (Italian, 1535-1607)

Date: 1560

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

Biography

Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1558 to 1561.

Married to the intended husband of her elder sister Maria, who died young, her marriage was short and unhappy. The Duchess died of pulmonary tuberculosis, but almost immediately after her death there were rumors that she had been poisoned on the orders of her husband. That suspicion inspired the English poet Robert Browning to create a dramatic monologue in verse "My Last Duchess" (1842).

[grapecola]

It’s my new Munich double briefcase in green from Republic of Florence.

[ammapola]

female rage ft. Fang Runin

The personification of female rage

[emaadsidiki]

Florentine Sunset 🌇

[replicayouth]

december doodle diary // glad to be done with this one. featuring la dispute, brand new, florence & the machine, the republic of wolves, and a quote from the book "meet us by the roaring sea" by akil kuramasamy, which was recommended to me by my therapist nearly a year and a half ago but has been haunting me since.

[sforzesco]

HAIL TO THE KING, BABY

it's like. the horror of war and bodies and the gore of power that demands people be brought violently under the heel. something else about renaissance discourses on tyranny, too. everything repeats itself. everything repeats itself. everything---

Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar, Lionel Noel Royer, The siege of Florence, Stefano Ussi

Caesar and Genocide: Confronting the Dark Side of Caesar's Gallic Wars, K. Raaflaub, The Medici, Mary Hollingsworth

[grand-army-radio]

This song is for Rex.

[imy2]

Cupid's got a needle. It'll find a vein. Careful, 'cause you'll bleed a little. But pretty soon romance will marinate your brain. (Lovesick - Women on the Urge of a Nervous Breakdown) 

Smoke - Pvris, Life-size dissected woman (detail) - Jacques Fabien Gautier Dagoty, Strangeness & Charm - Florence + the Machine, In My Veins - Andrew Belle, To have and to hold - Giulia Quaresima, Picking Up Pieces - Blue October, Let’s Hurt Tonight - OneRepublic 

[rose-of-the-grave]

For Wrapped: 66, 93 and 7 please!

Thank you for the ask!!!

7:

I started listening to it because it was used in a lot of reels, then I listened to the full song and fell in love with it. Now it's on my playlist that I listen to while I write.

66:

When ttpd came out I listened to it on repeat and one of my friends had moved to Florida so for some reason it stuck. I also just really like Florence and the machine so 🤷‍♀️. NGL as a choir kid I love singing along to songs, it's my therapy basically. And for this one there's just something about the way it's sung that has me hooked.

93:

I started listening to it because it was on the tgm soundtrack on repeat. I love how it gives off summer and beach vibes. Plus it's fun to sing. Every time I hear this song I think of Rooster's iconic (idk what to call it) on the beach. Even years after thinking miles teller was cute in divergent he still has a hold on me as rooster.

[em-cosplay42]

Traveling somewhere with heavy bags and helping with parts of artist stand after sleepless night (fuck the girlies having party whole night next door at hotel)....

I am drenched, tired and hungry qwq

Con was at last fun.

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Ficino: so. I've had an idea.

Church: put it back! PUT IT RIGHT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT!

Ficino: but. it's about love!!

Church:

Church: alright. speak.

Ficino: so there are daemons, right? Everyone has one. And there are also bad daemons and good daemons and the best are the ones that belong to Venus, goddess of love--

Church: excuse me what

Church:

Church: you know you're a priest right?

Ficino: I've some finicky theology worked out to make all of this okie dokie. Trust me. Don't worry about it.

Church: what

Ficino: what?

[onceuponamako]

Bruno Mars, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, and Marina & the Diamonds

mine would probs be: one direction, taylor swift, ed sheeran, the script and coldplay 

[dwagom]

any project is a disco elysium successor project if you've set it in a politically brittle city-state

[t4ckie-j4ckie]

does anyone else ever get that feeling where its like.

you're fine and you're okay and you're fine and you're okay and everything's neutral and normal and neutral and below-average and okay, when you're suddenly assaulted by the bare and basic and horrifically made ingenuity of humanity. The never-ending cycle and motor of change, but it doesn't change, does it? The monolith and its ideals stand tall and ever-lasting for thousands of thousands of years and you lay there in its shadow and watch as history swirls and coils around it, century-long projects rising from marshy and swampy earth to curl in circles and domes and spires, a dizzying red white and green that lasts far, far, far, far, beyond what anyone can ever pray- because that's what they do, pray- to remember or know, the dazzling endlessness of the human want for pretty things, and all the architects and well-known magicians of the past cry and holler and yell in victory and wonder as they fireworks crack above the watery town full of alleys- we did it, we made it, we did it, it still stands after hundreds of years-

and you just sit there and look up and watch and marvel and when they ask you isn't it wonderful? Isn't our world, our work, our life, our belief in something we never see wonderful? Isn't the human life a marvellous thing? and you have to sit there and watch as pyramids are built before you yet still stand thousands of years later, and you just have to go yes, yes it is, but why do you still celebrate? there is nothing more to build, nothing more to do, all the wonder in the world has already been made.

and the ancestors of the world's people and buildings and history look down and say oh.

oh, oh. oh. oh, OH.

The world is still full of wonder-

but how do i make it? how to i push it forth when every speck of immortality has already been taken into the wonderful domes and spires and palaces of the old? How can i create wonder, when there is no more space to build?

and. and they just reply-

you have to be willing to dig.

[emaadsidiki]

Coolness that flows through the old city streets. 😎

[elbiotipo]

I'm always criticizing eurocentric fantasy worldbuilding, but one thing I think it's underused are city-states and trade republics and leagues. Not that they don't exist, but they're often in the background, the fantasy genre is so focused on monarchies and dynasties and noble drama, while those systems have so much room for intrigue and stuff without getting into "who's the TRUE heir of the super magical monarch" (yes, I know they had aristocratic families that ruled almost as monarchs, but trust me, Medici drama is another beast from regular feudal stuff)

Venice with its stupidly complex election system and their eternal rivals in Genoa, Florence home of the Rennaissance, the Hanseatic League, and lesser known examples like Novgorod, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Taifa of Córdoba, the Consolat de Mar (technically not a republic but kind of an Iberian Hansa) and if we go farther back, the leagues of city states of antiquity... you know what, I'm bored of feudalism. Next time I do a fantasy setting, it will all be city states and republics. Fuck feudalism.