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📖🏔 #OnThisDay in the #History of #Literature 26 April 1336, the Italian Renaissance poet #Petrarch famously climbed Mount Ventoux in Provence. At the peak he gazed out over the land, contemplated his life, his love for Laura, and read passages from Saint Augustine. #Poetry
🦅 #JohnJamesAudubon, American ornithologist and painter (The Birds of America), was #BOTD 26 April 1785. #Art #Painting
“It is never too late to be wise.”
📖🌴#OTD in the #History of #Literature 25 April 1719, #DanielDefoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE, one of the first English novels, was published by William Taylor. The first edition was mistaken as a travelogue, as it was attributed to the protagonist.
🎨 #PaulDeVree, Flemish artist and poet, #DOTD 25 April 1982. #Art #Poetry
🌟"PAF!"🌟
✒️🎨 #AlbertUderzo, French cartoonist and script writer (#Asterix #comicbooks), was #BOTD 25 April 1927. The Gaul was a major part of my childhood.