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Castiglione says that in conversation, the ideal courtier must be a man who knows the Classical authors & Italian poets as he dons a social mask of natural gracefulness projecting the illusion of spontaneity.

Raphael-Portrait of Venetian poet & historian Andrea Navagero 1516

The pointing index-finger iconography used by Renaissance artists derived from the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition:

ex. da Vinci's John the Baptist pointing heavenwards as reminder of divine judgment. Raphael's School of Athens, Plato points up to the timeless/unchanging Forms.

The adlocutio (orator’s) pose also depicts a leader addressing troops with an outstretched pointing right hand symbolic of power and authority.

Leaders across history raise their right arms due to the right side of the body is symbolically linked to righteousness & divinity.

A painter from antiquity, Apollodoros of Athens aka "Skiagraphos" (5th c. BC) was the first to develop skiagraphia or "shading" technique by using hatched areas to give the lifelike illusion of both shadow & volume. Skiagraphia was the precursor of the Renaissance chiaroscuro.

Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes

"All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil"

-Ovid, Tristia II ("Sorrows")

Did you know the English word soldier derives from the Latin solidus (imperial Roman gold coin introduced by Diocletian in AD 301), later referring to the solidi w/ which soldiers were paid

*see Spanish word soldado (sueldo) & Italian soldato (soldare) literally "one having pay"

Praesente fortuna pejor est futuri metus

"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."

-Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

Thread # 6 on my recommendations of Classical music.

Six pieces: songs, serenatas & arias in the celestial voices of countertenors Andreas Scholl & Philippe Jaroussky.

Antonio Vivaldi: 'Stabat Mater dolorosa' sung by Andreas Scholl.

https://t.co/QSPMvAFe4A

"To accept it without pride, to let it go without attachment.”

-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.33

According to Strabo's Geographica (7 BC) there was a law on the city of Iulis, Keos where "those who were over sixty years of age (were obliged) to drink hemlock, in order that the food might be sufficient for the rest."