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@valenti94931878 Perhaps she is removing her helmet in anticipation of a dip in the fountain along the wall. Such a magnificent room at Castello Della Manta.

On landing at Belhaven Sands (Dunbar), the Aeneas made good on an oath he'd sworn during the storm to make a bare foot pilgrimage to a shrine to the Virgin Mary. Unfortunately the nearest was 5 miles away through snow. His Wenceslas impression almost lost him toe to frostbite.

Interestingly, before Bellini made his portraits of Mehmed in 1480, when European artists wanted to depict 'El Gran Turco' in the 1470s they seem to have used John's bust as the starting point & we get a Sultan who looks more like Blackbeard or Jack Sparrow.

10th December: Not a person but a building today. At the highest point of the picture, the 'Jerusalem' from which the procession of eastern wise men has come closely resembles the Medici family seat at Cafaggiolo. The villa was redesigned by Michaelozzo in 1452.

9th December: Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. Fifteen at the time of the painting. He was a nasty piece of work even by the low standards of the day & was assassinated on Boxing Day 1476. #MerryByzmas

He was right. A bitter war over the crown of Naples had southern Italy in disarray. That year (1460) one of the protagonists, Ferdinand, hired the great Turkish nemesis Skanderbeg to cross from Albania & fight for him. Meanwhile southern Greece (the Morea) fell to Mehmed.

The better the rank, the bigger the 'feather in your cap' (not sure if this is the origin of that phrase. The çorbacı was a regimental (orta) commander & some of them had seriously impressive plumage.

Can't let the 25th October pass without a little Shakespeare.😁

"Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

25th Oct 1415, Agincourt...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#FolkloreThursday Procopius on 'Brittia' a ghostly isle off the Euro coast:"the souls of the dead are transported to that island. On the coast of the continent there dwell under Frankish sovereignty, but exempt from all tax, fishers & farmers, duty-bound to ferry the souls over."

Two frescoes – the Assumption & scenes of the Martyrdom & removal of the body of St Christopher – which were suffering from damp, had been detached from the walls & taken to Venice in the late C19th. The other frescoes were completely destroyed in the bombing.