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Back to basics: the plough, the grape, the farm, and the beehive
#SaturdayThoughts
BL Burney 272; Various including Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis; c. 1473 CE; Germany or Austria (Melk?); ff.18r, 26r, 34v, 43v @BLMedieval
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"'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
#DayOfSelene
O Benaco che gonfi le tue onde e fremi come il mare
Virgilio "Georgiche ll° "
#MareCoiVersi
@PaolaToogoodxme
Van Rusdiael
"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
#IntornoAiMiti
#SalaLettura
@SalaLettura
🎨Catherine Adelaide Sparkes
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'
✒️ Virgilio, Georgiche - Orfeo ed Euridice
Peter Paul Rubens - Orfeo libera Euridice dall’Ade
We're getting spoiled by @ChCh_Oxford 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
@p_historians For #AugustanAugust!
#Suetonius tells us that #Augustus purportedly led an abstemious life.
Had #Bacchus been "reinvented" to fit Caesar's conservatism thru works like Virgil's Georgics in response to Mark Antony's patron god #Dionysus?
https://t.co/gCoTDyp6YP
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:
#18thcentury #johndryden #georgic