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#OTD 1536 Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, 6th Governor of Ottoman Egypt and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire who oversaw the formation of the formal Franco-Ottoman alliance in 1536, was executed at the orders of Sultan Suleiman. #History #Ottoman #OnThisDay

Beatrice is a crucial female figure in Dante's Divine Comedy & a fundamental written female character in Middle Ages Italian literature, representing guidance, faith & revelation in Paradiso.

Beatrice appears to Virgil at the start of Inferno, by Gustave Doré #FolkloreThursday

Close one, but the Medici win. Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany (rule between 1569 – 1574) is well pleased.

#History #poll

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, early Enlightenment & rationalist thinker, critic of religion who passed away #OTD 1677 in the Hague

#quotes #quote #History

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

Nicolaus Copernicus- Renaissance-era mathematician& astronomer born #Onthisday 1473 in Toruń. Painting by Jan Matejko (1873)

#quotes #quote #quoteoftheday #History

There has always been a symbolic link between the sky and those at sea. A red sky would have different meanings based on time of day. The moon & stars would be crucial for navigating especially on the open sea

Painting by J. M. Turner, Fishermen at Sea, 1796

#FolkloreThursday

The 1560's saw some peculiar celestial events occur in Europe. In 1561 in Nuremberg (L) people had multiple interpretations (many religious) about the strange lights (most likely they were sun dogs). In 1566 in Basel (R) similar sightings were reported.

#FolkloreThursday

Dante and Beatrice meet twelve wise men (including Thomas Aquinas, King Solomon, Boethius, Bede) in the Sphere of the Sun (miniature by illustrator Giovanni di Paolo), Canto 10, in what is an important episode in Paradiso and the whole Divine Comedy. 1/2 #FolkloreThursday

Greuceanu is one of the oldest tales of written Romanian folklore, the protagonist having to set the sun and moon free from Zmei (archetypical devil/dragon like villains). #FolkloreThursday

Old stamp of Greuceanu (from the collection of folk tales compiled by Petre Ispirescu)

#OTD 1457 Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, important Italian historian and author of some of the first accounts of explorations in Central & South America was born in Arona. De Orbe Novo (On the New World, 1530) is considered one of his most important writings. #History #Geography