Back to basics: the plough, the grape, the farm, and the beehive

BL Burney 272; Various including Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis; c. 1473 CE; Germany or Austria (Melk?); ff.18r, 26r, 34v, 43v

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day /

"'Twas with gift of such snowy wool, if we may trust the tale, that Pan, Arkadia's god, charmed and beguiled you, O Luna [#Selene], calling you to the depths of the woods; nor did you scorn his call."
Virgil, Georgics

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O Benaco che gonfi le tue onde e fremi come il mare
Virgilio "Georgiche ll° "




Van Rusdiael

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"Addio ormai: mi sento trascinare via, circondata da una smisurata
notte, non più tua, mentre tendo a te le mani prive di forza."

Virgilio

Orfeo ed Euridice
Georgiche, IV






🎨Catherine Adelaide Sparkes

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a strange project i've been working on... LOVE LETTERS, experimental illustrations based on excerpts of poetry, books, plays...
(all are available on my portfolio site)
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1 - cover
2 - Silas Denver Melvin, 'love as an act of merciful conquer'
3 - Virgil, 'Georgics: Book IV'

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Homo georgicus. Possibly the first member of the genus Homo in Europe!

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✒️ Virgilio, Georgiche - Orfeo ed Euridice

Peter Paul Rubens - Orfeo libera Euridice dall’Ade

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We're getting spoiled by lately. Another recent addition to Digital Bodleian from their collections is this 1456 manuscript copy of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, produced in Ferrara by Matteo Contugi of Volterra: https://t.co/ZbnihsUVyR

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For
tells us that purportedly led an abstemious life.

Had been "reinvented" to fit Caesar's conservatism thru works like Virgil's Georgics in response to Mark Antony's patron god

https://t.co/gCoTDyp6YP

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In the new ECF issue, 30.3:
Dryden's Georgic Fictionality, by Katarina O'Briain, Johns Hopkins U.
https://t.co/LMcShHNa27
See abstract in the picture:

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