#zanni edit

[ammomancer]

pn character name post...TWO! last name edition and also the random psychonauts around the motherlobe who i didn't feel like including in the first one

including ones that aren't real surnames but are real words/clearly plays on real words. if one is missing assume either it doesn't mean anything/I couldn't find a meaning or I didn't think it needed explaining (e.g. Sweetwind, Doom)

Aquato - clearly a play on "aqua"

Nein - "no" in German

Zanotto - from a diminuitive of Zane or Zani/Zanni, the Venetian form of Gianni, which is short for Giovanni, which is the Italian form of "John" (God is gracious, Hebrew). unrelated but "Zanni" is also where we get the English word "zany"

Oleander - a flowering shrub that is grown as an ornamental or landscape plant despite being poisonous

Cruller - a kind of twisty donut :)

Boole - possibly from a Middle English word for bull

Canola - genericized trademark of a brand of cooking oil. the "can" is short for "Canada"

Zilch - German surname of uncertain etymology, slang for 'nothing'

Athens - after the Greek city, which Athena was probably named after, not the other way around

Lutefisk - Norwegian word for a traditional Nordic fish dish. it's soaked in lye.

Bulgakov - son of Bulgak (Bulgak being a surname in its own right that means "restless" or "troublesome"). Mikhail is probably named after the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, best known for The Master and Margarita

Fir - as in a fir tree

Phage - short for bacteriophage; a Greek suffix meaning "eater"

Bubai - Mandarin word meaning "invincible"

Tripe - animal stomach lining prepared for food; figuratively used to mean nonsense or valueless ideas/writing

Fideleo - possibly from Latin "fidelis", faithful/loyal

Cooper - barrel maker (English)

Soleil - "sun" in French

Houndstooth - a fabric pattern (that Becky does not wear)

Rolls - likely alluding to fat rolls

Bonaparte - French-ified version of Buonaparte, an Italian surname meaning "good match" or "good solution"

Teglee - derived from famed black velvet painter Edgar Leeteg; "Leeteg" was originally "Lütig", which I can't find a straight answer on what that means

Inflagrante - from "in flagrante", a shortened version of "in flagrante delicto", a Latin term that literally translates to "while the crime is blazing" and basically means "in the act"; it can refer to being in the act of doing something bad but particularly when shortened also means. well. in the act of Doing A Sex

DeLucca - alternate spelling of Italian De Luca, "[child] of Luca"; Luca ultimately meaning "from Lucania"

Pokeylope - pokey (slow) + lope (to walk slowly). good turtle name

Loboto - clearly a play on "lobotomy"

Forsythe - man of peace (Scottish Gaelic)

Natividad - Spanish for "nativity", meaning birth but particularly referring to the births of Mary or Jesus. a common name in the Philippines in addition to Spanish-speaking countries

Martinez - son of Martin (Spanish). "Martin" is derived from "Mars", Roman god of war and root of the word "martial"

Joseph - "he [God] will add" (Hebrew)

Gette - variation of Goethe, derived from "Gott" (God in Middle High German as well as modern German)

Neriman (also spelled Nariman) - a name of Persian origin, possibly meaning "brave mind"

Potts - topographical name. if you lived near holes in the ground you might have gotten called Potts

Malik - "king" in Arabic and various other Semitic languages; as a surname, is most common in India and Pakistan

OKAY now for the miscellaneous motherlobe NPCs

Brianne - "hill" or "power" (Celtic)

Chet - short for Chester, "fortress" (Latin)

Colin - young dog (Scottish)

Crenshaw - possibly "twisted wood" (Old English)

Dustin - from Thorsteinn, "Thor's stone" (Old Norse)

Evan - from the Welsh form of John

Forrest - take a guess.

Frank - Frenchman, more or less

Hawkins - diminuitive of Hawk or of Hal (from Henry, "home ruler", Germanic)

Jared - descent (Hebrew)

Kim - diminuitive of various names

Kramer - shopkeeper, merchant (German)

Lance - land (German/Old Saxon)

Larry - short for Laurence, "from Laurentum" (Latin)

Lori - short for Laura (laurel) or Lorraine (kingdom of Lothar, a Frankish king)

Sherri - from "cherie", French for darling

Susan - lily (Hebrew)

Thad - short for Thaddeus, Greek name of unclear origin

Whitlatch - "white path" or "white stream" (Old English)

[caseyspronounshop]

Theme Day #3 |:| Kidcore Theme!

This ones REAL silly :3 Todays theme is Kidcore! "Kidcore is an aesthetic that centers around bright colors, nostalgia for icons from the 90s, and kid themes." Colors, playgrounds, stuffed animals, Kandi, Balloons, robot pets, and the such! It was really fun to find these! ^-^ As per usual, we're gonna be starting off with the Neopronouns! Remember that you're free to change up and edit these however you'd like! For example: Primary/Primaryself! This could be used as "Pri/Primars/Primaryself" or maybe "Pri/Prys/Primarys/Primaryself"! Whatever forms you wanna use! Experiment with them! (Tip: Pronouns replace names in sentences, so Neopronouns are also a fun way to find names to go by! Try em out!) And remember; if you have a question on how to use any specific neos, or just questions in general, gimme an ask and I can help! I'd love to answer any question! Neopronouns: Col/Colorself Pri/mar/primaryself Play/Playself Spark/Sparkleself Cray/Crayonself Stick/Sticks/Stickerself Kan/Kandis/Kandiself Splat/Splatself Hyp/Hyperself Candi/Candies/Candyself Tri/Trick/Trickself Zan/Zanni/Zanniself Star/Starself Bub/Bubbleself Fi/Fizz/Fuzzyself Plush/Plushie/PLushieself Toi/Toyself Doll/Dollself Trinket/Trinketself Fuz/Fuzzie/Fuzzyself Sil/Sillyself Pai/Paintself Re/Reds/Redself, Blu/Blueself, etc Bri/Brights/Brightself Rai/Rainbo/Rainbowself Bea/Beads/Beadself Cart/Catroonself Button/Buttonself Neo/Neos/Neon/Neonself Xenogenders:

Kidcoric/ Kidcoric- related to the aesthetic of kidcore. Sellaplasticic - related to small, brightly or pastel colored plastic chairs. Colorgender - umbrella term for genders associated with one or more colors and the feelings, emotions, or objects associated with it. Palettegender - has a select amount of colorgenders that they are fluid between Brightgender - bright, colorful, and chaotic Playgroundgender - related to, connected to, or influenced by playgrounds. Sillygender - related to clowns/circuscore, horror, dreamcore, nostalgiacore, neurodivergence, and/or kidcore Kandigender -  colorful but organized, or simply related to scenecore and kandi accessories. Media To Satisfy Your Kidcoric Needs! 6dokidoki (clothes store) Kidcore.shop (clothes store) Max's Kidcore Theme (Pinterest board) Kidcore by Aesthetics Wiki Official (Playlist) Clowns and Silly Little Guys by CaseyTheGhost (playlist by me!) ULTIMATE KIDCORE PLAYLIST by Amethyst

[zanniscaramouche]

ZANNI - FIRST LINES (WIP edition)

❄️ If My Heart Were Mine (posting in April) Ice circled Liam's ankles like a dead man clawing for the life source in his lungs.

❄️ The Devil's Backbone (posting in May) “It ‘ain’t right.” The old maid shakes her head like a nervous tick, the loose flesh in her neck wobbling as she vigorously wiped the dulled lacquer.

❄️ If I Could Fly (posting in July) The first big talk went something like this:

Louis, textbooks piled in front of him and half a coherent thesis scribbled across a million wrinkled and tea stained pages.

❄️ Ride or Die, Sweetheart (posting in August) Floorboards gone soft with age groan under Harry’s boots, the faded paint more gone than present turning the wood a brittle sun-bleached grey.

❄️ Broken Wishbones (posting in September) Louis snarls. “I don’t need you treating Harry like some princess in distress, he can handle himself.”

❄️ Black Silk (posting in October) He sits down against the wall with a thud. Fuck. Fucking fuck.

❄️ Who Hung the Moon ((posting in November) The first sign that today is going to be different is waking seven seconds before the alarm.

❄️ Hope You Get This Message (posting tbd) The overweight and overcompensating detective holds his notepad self-importantly; like he’s posing for a starring role in rerun telly, talking down his nose with an air of someone who’s definitely practised lines in front of a mirror.  “When was the last time you spoke to him?”  He holds back the eye roll but can’t contain his snort. Talk? Louis didn’t even know him.

❄️ in the dying of the light (posting tbd - star trek fandom) Let’s say it like it is: the first few months they work together they can hardly stand in the same room.

@zjofierose nudged me to do the first lines thing going around, but I'm not a huge fan of my current posted first lines and thought it'd be more fun to do the first lines of my current WIPs! Has anything caught your eye? Let me know what you're most curious about!

@jacaranda-bloom @ladyaj-13 @kingsofeverything @lululawrence @disgruntledkittenface @allwaswell16 @alwaysxlarrie @larry-hiatus @fallinglikethis @imogenleefic @haztobegood @louandhazaf @cyantific @paranormalbabydoll @hellolovers13 @panye @larrysballetslippers @wabadabadaba

[nora-theteawriter]

Heads Up, Seven Up!

Tagged by @magic-is-something-we-create, thanks!

This is from The Witch University, Chapter 23: The Solstice Festival

Zanni greeted her in the kitchen, a sense of relief washing over Sam. Even in the smallest of distressful times, Zanni brought her solace without the need to explain anything. She sat on the cold floor and her familiar curled up in her lap. Sam pet her for an extended pause, staring off into space.

Maybe you should eat something, Zanni suggested after a time. It is morning, and morning is when you have breakfast.  

“I’ve skipped breakfast before,” Sam said, though her stomach was starting to feel obnoxiously empty at the thought of food. Did she really deserve to take care of herself when she was keeping up this lie to Hestia? A lie she would have to admit to before she left this house.

Currently editing the following chapter, but that is absolutely chockful of spoilers so I went back a bit to find an excerpt (almost done with draft 6!)

Tagging, if interested, @the-writing-rat, @tundra-tiger, @stormbeyondreality, @chayscribbles, and anyone else interested (I need to follow more writeblrs lol)!

[haztobegood]

13 17 40

Thank you Zanni! 💙

13. talk about a writing experience that has pleasantly surprised you.

One of toughest periods of writer's blocks I've had was in the middle of 2020. I wrote a lot in the first half of the year and then after June I struggled to write anything. The Fine Line fest was going on and didn't have a minimum word count. So I signed up and wrote to be so... It was so different than anything else I'd tried and it helped me get back into my writing.

17. what is your favorite line you’ve ever written?

This part from Close Our Eyes (Pretend We're Miles Away). It's more than a line, but I love how it establishes the difference between Harry and Louis while also giving a bit of backstory to Louis.

Harry fidgets beside her, unable to sit still for long. She bends down to rummage through her purse, long curls falling around her face. When she pops back up, she’s got a black tube of lipstick in her hand. She leans over and tilts the rear view mirror her way.

It’s only as she puckers her lips and spreads on the bright red pigment that Louis realizes it must be her own tube of lipstick. She probably dropped it in the frantic commotion after Harry came barreling out of the gas station. It’s Louis’ color. She always wears the daring red during her shifts at the diner. Her flirty pout brings in more tips from the grimy truck drivers and sleazy old men.

Louis doesn’t remember the last time she’d seen Harry wear anything more than a subtle dusting of rouge or her pink strawberry-flavored lip gloss. The bright red stands out on her porcelain skin. While it tends to look alluring or even a bit whorish on Louis, it looks elegant on Harry.

40. best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten.

I once had a beta read through a fic and almost all of their comments were something along the lines of "Show emotion here". They taught me that I was just explaining how a character felt instead of describing it in a more interesting way. Once they pointed it out, I started to watch for it in my own editing.

more fic writer asks

[ranchacienda]

Anastasia Zannis Tango to Evora Floran Ohniguian edit

[gazeta24br]

Aprovado pela 7ª Edital de Fomento ao Circo da Cidade de São Paulo, o espetáculo é uma obra circense que busca refletir a própria condição da arte na metáfora de um palhaço que percorre a cidade com um circo na mão em busca de um lugar para o circo e sua poesia Onde cabe o circo? Onde está a poesia na cidade e dentro da gente? Com atuação de Ronaldo Aguiar e direção e dramaturgia de Jhoão Junnior, o espetáculo Circo de Mão faz novas apresentações gratuitas em São Paulo, começando pelo dia 24 de novembro, às 15h na Academia Carolinas (Cidade Tiradentes). Completam a ficha técnica a produtora executiva Damaris Santos, o diretor musical Alexandre Maldonado, a assistente de direção Luciana Viacava, a orientadora histórico-pedagógica Ermínia Silva, o cenógrafo e figurinista Kleber Montanheiro, o iluminador Thiago Zanotta e a preparadora corporal Bruna Longo. A circulação do espetáculo busca dialogar com os espaços que vivem em estado de luta por território, tais como, ocupações de moradia tecendo relação entre essas disputas pela cidade e a jornada do Palhaço Charlito. Sobre o espetáculo Em cena, acompanhamos o palhaço Charlito em sua busca de um lugar para o circo e sua poesia diante de uma cidade cheia de gente, obras e prédios, mas com cada vez mais pessoas sem casa. Um palhaço em busca do seu circo, uma procura pelos os lugares onde a arte se adapta e vai encontrar o público. O palhaço segue pelo tecido urbano dialogando com o território e nos perguntando: onde cabe o circo? Onde está a poesia na cidade e dentro da gente? Onde estão as memórias de quem fomos e de quem veio antes de nós? Sobre Ronaldo Aguiar Ronaldo Aguiar é bailarino, coreógrafo, ator, palhaço, artista circense e diretor. Formado em licenciatura em Dança pela FPA - Faculdade Paulista de Artes. Estudou técnicas circenses na EPC - Escola Pernambucana de Circo. Participou em diversos espetáculos de circo, dança e teatro. Integrou a Cia. de Artes Movimento, a Trupe da Escola Pernambucana de Circo, o Grupo de Teatro Popular Vem Cá, Vem Vê e Jorge Garcia Companhia de Dança. Está nos Doutores da Alegria desde 2002 e, atualmente, é Diretor Artístico da Instituição. Participou das companhias de Circo mais conhecidas no Brasil como Circo Roda, Circo Marcos Frota, Circo Zanni, Academia Brasileira de Circo, Circo Mínimo e Universoul Circus nos EUA. Sobre Jhoão Junnior Jhoão Junnior é ator, dramaturgo e diretor Teatral. Formado pelo curso de Artes Cênicas da UFRN, desenvolveu diversos projetos voltados para o território e suas territorialidades numa prática artístico-pedagógica que articula a memória social, histórica e geografia urbana. Dirigiu espetáculos nos trens da cidade de São Paulo destacando-se ‘A cidade dos rios invisíveis’ e ‘Nos trilhos abertos de um leste migrante’, do Coletivo Estopô Balaio do qual é fundador e ex-membro. É idealizador e coordenador artístico-pedagógico do projeto Margem-Memória. Atualmente é articulador de equipe e processos do Programa de Iniciação Artística (Piá), da Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de SP e orientador artístico do Programa de Qualificação em Artes, da Poiesis e Governo Estadual de SP. Desenvolve diversas atividades no campo da formação e fruição de uma prática Teatral dentro do campo da arte comunitária e participativa. Ficha técnica Atuação e Pesquisa: Ronaldo Aguiar Pesquisa, Direção e Dramaturgia: Jhoão Junnior Assistente de Direção: Luciana Viacava Produção Executiva: Damaris Santos Direção Musical: Alexandre Maldonado Orientação Histórico-Pedagógica: Ermínia Silva Cenografia e Figurino: Kleber Montanheiro Iluminação: Thiago Zanotta Preparação Corporal: Bruna Longo Operador de Som: Ivan Alves e Juliana Eva Costureiras: Lili e Ray Lopes Serviço 50 minutos Livre Todas as apresentações são gratuitas: basta chegar Próximas apresentações: 24/11 - sexta - Academia Carolinas (Cidade Tiradentes) - 15h Av. Souza Ramos, 430 - Guaianases, São Paulo - SP 25/11 - sábado - Centro de Acolhida Nova Vida (Barra Funda) - 10h R. Dr. Ribeiro de Almeida - Barra Funda, São Paulo - SP

25/11 - sábado - Casa Florescer (Bom Retiro) - 15h Rua Prates, 1101 - Bom Retiro, São Paulo - SP 28/11 - terça - Ocupação Rio Branco (Centro) - 17h Av. Rio Branco, 53 - República, São Paulo - SP 30/11 - quinta - Pombas Urbanas (Cidade Tiradentes) - 10h e 14h Av. dos Metalúrgicos, 2100 - Cidade Tiradentes - São Paulo - SP

[gloryridereview]

Review: GLORY RIDE, Charing Cross Theatre

New musical portrays the life of Gino Bartali, who proved himself a hero of Italian cycling in the 30s and 40s and of the Italian Resistance in wartime

When he died in 2000, Italy grieved for one of its most beloved sporting heroes, the cyclist who had won his home race, the Giro d’Italia three times and the biggest of them all, the Tour de France twice, both either side of World War II. But stories soon emerged of a double life, one that the religious and unassuming native of Tuscany had kept quiet for so long. During the war, Gino Bartali had repeatedly risked his life to save Jews from the Nazis.

That extraordinary tale forms the backbone of the new musical, Glory Ride, which recounts a life of quiet bravery and public acclaim, each feeding off the other. Were not Bartali courageous, his resolve stiffened by deeply held religious belief and the support of the Florentine church, he would not have been able to use his celebrity to broker a deal that allowed him free movement to train and a nod-and-a-wink from starstruck checkpoint guards unwilling to stand in the way of a genuine national hero. It was a perfect storm of opportunity, but it took real guts to pull it off. You have to admit, that’s more promising material for a show than the life of Silvio Berlusconi, whose musical has just completed a long uphill climb south of the river.

PJ McEvoy creates a lovely look for the show, capturing a little of the vibe recently evoked in Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar-winning movie, Pinocchio (though it’s worth mentioning that every racing cyclist shaves their legs, so step to it!) Kelly Devine keeps things busy on stage, the musical theatre trap of having two people simply singing avoided, the bustle of life during wartime, the darting in and out of the shadows, always in play.

Victoria and Todd Buchholz share the credit for the book which always has its heart in the right place. It’s good on portraying life in an occupied country (always something that takes a bit of explanation in Anglo-American theatre) and is clear about the stakes in play, though the ruthlessness of Mussolini’s apparatchiks is, perhaps, shown a little too graphically in a generally feelgood show.

We never really get to the crux of the relationships that bind the emotional centre of the production together. Josh St Clair as Bartali and Amy Di Bartolomeo as his girlfriend, Adriana, look handsome and sing well, but their courtship seems perfunctory with no sense that it will lead to 60 years of marriage. Fred Zanni, as Adriana’s childhood sweetheart who joins the Blackshirts to defend Italians otherwise defenceless before the Nazis, can’t do much with an underwritten part that never gets to grips with his two reasons to feel antipathy towards his other childhood friend and now hero, rival and enemy Bartali. The love triangle melts away and the different responses of the two men to war is resolved too glibly.

Daniel Robinson has a bit of fun with Bartali’s manager and expert document forger, Giorgio, especially winkling out some much needed funds from the banker-cardinals (“Green Eye Shades”) — who would have had that quartet earmarked for the comic relief? Ruairidh McDonald is very good in portraying the broken dreams of ordinary locals, just kids really, not quite under existential threat, but victims too.

Dave Rose’s band plays the score with gusto, perhaps a little over-amplified for the front seats, but this is a tricky space to get that balance right and there are plenty of fine songs, the ballad, “I Never Learned To Say Goodbye” and the defiant “800 Souls” the standouts with the rousing “Glory”, but the show could do with a full-blown 11 o’clock number to anchor its second half.

With cycling a sport that solemnly venerates its heroes, followed by a mass audience competitively and recreationally in the UK and with this year’s edition of The Giro starting next week, to say nothing of politics providing ever starker choices of the kind that Bartali faced — how to do good in an imperfect world — it’s timely that this production hits the London stage now.

Whether its sketchy romantic triangle and underwritten support characters will be enough to gather a peloton of punters at the box office remains to be seen, but it’s too easy to damn new musicals with faint praise. This one certainly deserves its day in front of the race and not just an anonymous position riding along in the gruppeto.

Glory Ride at Charing Cross Theatre until 29 July

[austerlitzborodinoleipzig]

Ranking the GPF programs - Junior RD edition

6 - Darya Grimm/Michail Savitskiy - Milonga Sentimentale/Tango Apasionada/ Codigo de Barra, choreo by Mariia Tumanovska-Chaika

While Darya and Michail are a lovely team, latin dances or tango are absolutely not their thing. They are a more retro team, which is surprising because they are so young, but anyway, blues, old rocks suit them a lot better.

This tango is there. It’s not bad by any means because they are very good skaters. And they did try hard to sell it, but it just doesn’t really fit.

If they were to skate to a waltz OTOH... (ISU do it please)

5 - Célina Fradji/Jean-Hans Fourneaux - Tango Gringo n°1, choreo by Karine Arribert

A yes nothing screams tango like a “Hall of the Mountain King remix”. But you know ? In a sea of questionable programs this season, amid all the Latin Wicked Games, Latin Imagine Dragons, Tango Pirates of the Caribbeans, that RD feels almost tame.

It’s fun and quirky which is very French Ice DanceTM. They seem into it. They’re happy. I’m happy.

4 - Hannah Lim/Ye Quan - Primavera Porteno, choreo by Romain Hagenauer

Defintely one of the best RDs of the season, and leaps and bounds over the rest of the junior field, including the french and germans at JGPF... And yet only fourth places here which says all you need to know about the quality of that junior field.

Hannah and Ye looked senior ready in that program. it’s mature, it’s classy, there’s breath and polish to it. Not my favorite tango music, but you can’t have everything.

3 - Nadiia Bashynska/Peter Beaumont - Spanish Waltz/Tango Grande from the Great Gatsby Suite, choreo by Carol Lane

Nadiia and Peter were iirc the only one doing a Waltz with the Tango, which was an A+++ choice. It made them stand out in the best way. It played to their strength as a lyrical team.

And I just love the opening of the program. The music for the Spanish Waltz is beautiful. Love the steps and the little waltz jump, and the sheer breath it gives to their skating.

The tango part doesn’t go that hard despite them selling it hard, but it’s still great.

2 - Phebbe Bakker/James Hernandez - Flamenco The Duel/Tango de Besame/ Concerto de Espana, choreo by Penny Coomes

Obsessed with their costumes, and with the choreo. Skating skills not as good as the Koreans, Czechs, or Canadians, but they make up with everything else. 

The most senior-looking team in this field. Their RD is fierce, intricate, and passionated.

1 - Katerina Mrazkova/Daniel Mrazek - A Evaristo Carriego/Espana Cani, choreo by Matteo Zanni

Not to be annoying but it’s a very “you had to be there” team. Had to be there at JGP Ostrava, when the Mrazkovi were not on anyone’s radars, but everyone watching the ISU streams noticed Katarina’s red dress and were dreading the inevitable disaster that could come from skating with such a long garment.

And then the Mrazkovi proceeded to absolutely demolish the RD, and the junior world record to boot!

(The disaster happened at JGPF).

That RD is genius, because it’s mad. It’s always verging on catastrophe, but when they pull it off! The speed. The power. The dress-ography. The unisson those two have. The way the dress moves during the twizzles. The final pose were Daniel is ready to execute Katerina...

Hope the madlads demolish the senior ranks.

[maimoncat]

I've been looking into this novel, since it had some interesting influence on italian folklore.

It didn't have as much fortune as other chivalric literature of the Renaissance, like the Orlando Innamorato and Furioso, by Boiardo and Ariosto, and the Morgante by Pulci, however it lived on in oral tradition, particularly in puppet theatre. There, one of the main used dynamics was that Guerrino would go on his quest to find his family, acting really knight-like, with honour and stuff, while his squire, played by the local Zanni puppet (Girolamo, Bergnacle, Fagiolino, etc.) would follow him and joke around on his posh behaviour and adventures.

When the novel was republished in print, it had to be heavily edited, since certain sections (the Sybil's cave and st. Patrick's well) were deemed to go against the Church's canon during the age of the Counterreformation. While st. Patrick's well somehow was left in the text, the Sybil of Norcia was switched for Alcina, the wicked fairy from the Orlando Furioso, and this switch stuck in tradition. This book did have some last moments of popularity during the XX century, with a movie released in 1952, and various new editions, even a comic parody featuring Donald Duck!

When I finally got there it took a while for me to find the book, since it’s so old. When I got my hands on it I took the time to analyze it. It’s 394 pages long and there are 8 chapters. It’s written in prose form which means that it follows the patterns of ordinary everyday speech. At the beginning of each chapter, there’s an illustration that shows what’s going to happen within that chapter. The drawings are beautiful and look like they’re drawn with ink. The story itself is about Guerrin Meschino “Wretched Guerrino”, a slave born hero, and the adventures and dangers he faces in discovering his royal blood quantum. Within his journey he releases his parents from prison and even marries a Persian princess.  The book is very old and unpopular, so there aren’t any popular quotes that anyone would know but the first life of the book reads, “Questa è l'antichissima origine di Guerino detto il Meschino secondo la famosa genealogia dei Reali di Francia…” (Barberino 1). That translates to “This is a very ancient origin of Guerino known as the Meschino according to the famous genealogy of Royals of France”. I don’t speak fluent Italian so I couldn’t read the entire book, but the parts I could grasp were quite interesting. 

You don’t hear much about the literature that was written during the Renaissance, so I thought since I was already in the library that I should look up what was being written during this time. I found a book called The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy written by Peter Burke that told me everything I needed to know. The main genres written during this time were poetry and dramas, though satires and comedies were also around. Many Renaissance writers wrote in their everyday vernacular and very rarely wrote about God and religion (Burke 2023)

(13/19)

[zannithinks]

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January 01, 2021 - December 31, 2021 | Stats for 2010-2021

[miocortieni-blog]

feliciano spent at least 30 years with a commedia dell'arte group touring europe in the 16th century, holding the female romantic lead, isabella, for most of it until he was allowed to play zanni/harlequin and the male romantic lead, flavio, towards the end !

[tabbytabbytabby]

Greenberg and Danny Baywatch AU for @eclecticklutz

[ranchacienda]

Anastasia Zannis Tango to Evora Floran Ohniguian edit

[ilajue]

wow new defunctv can't wait for a zanny documentary of a specific piece of old media with beautiful editing and calming voicover, sure hope it doesn't destroy me emotionally forever