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Surprised by Time: Two for Cyriaco
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. Two documents for Cyriaco of Ancona, one new, one ignored, that contribute to his portrait. He was 63 and had been going to Venice since he was 10. This document is available on-line at. ASV Senato Privilegi 1425-October 1560. Francesco Filelfo to Cyriaco, greetings,. At the charm of your words would utter that Homeric phrase:. Who and from where are you, where is the city that bore you,. At being so utterly defeated by a mortal. Agios Alex...
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Surprised by Time: Bartolomeo Minio
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. This is not Bartolomeo Minio. Minio would never have given his attention to dressing this well, and he couldn't have afforded to. But he has Minio's resolution, isolation, and the deep marks of experience: he was Minio's contemporary, and represents him here. And bits that can be inferred from other records. The variety of his professional life reflects the expectations Venice had of its representatives in the stato da mar. To Flanders and ...
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Surprised by Time: Justice
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. In the Venetian “house of the. 8221; Halkis, during restoration. If it was the house of the bailo. Justice might have happened here. I have been looking for information about justice in the Morea. I have a number of examples where people, like Bartolomeo Minio, acted justly, but I have been trying to get an idea of the process. As usual, there is little information, and what there is is almost entirely about the Venetian system. On a horse ...
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Surprised by Time: Bessarion's missing manuscript
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. Bessarion's index to Marciana Gr Z 533 (coll 778). Five-thirty-three, as we call it here in this house (feeling that “Gr Z” and “coll. 778” are just plain pedantic in normal conversation), is a collection of Bessarion's writings that he put together himself and for which he wrote the index and an introduction. His introduction to 533 says, in part,. Monody for Manuel II. Discourse to the emperor Alexis of Trebizond. Another monody for her.
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Surprised by Time: Pierre Antony MacKay
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. Pierre MacKay, my partner and ξυνεργὸς,. Died quietly on Sunday morning, June 14. Typically for him on Sunday, he was doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, and he went so gently he didn't drop his pencil. Readers of. Will be intensely familiar with his work: he is responsible for the wonderful Mistra and Evliya. Elebi translations used here. I am putting a few photographs of him. Εἰπέ τις, Ἡράκλειτε, τεὸν μόρον ἐς δέ με δάκρυ. I tried ...
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Surprised by Time: Evliya's Manuscript
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. 25 March 2011, Google birthday homage to Evliya Çelebi. Pierre MacKay had the pleasure and privilege to be the scholar who identified Evliya. Çelebi's own manuscript. I have asked him to recount that remarkable experience. One painless way to acquire a smidgeon of academic notoriety is to attach oneself to someone whose 400th birthday is worth remembering. I had the good fortune of doing so in 1964, even before I knew who Evliya was. On col...
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Surprised by Time: The Complaint of the Anonymous Naupliote
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. The Complaint of the Anonymous Naupliote. On 22 March 1451, an anonymous Naupliote wrote a poem from a Venetian prison in one of those towers at the upper left. The poem is written in 72 lines of trochaic tetrameter, what the Greeks called "politicals" as it was a form much used for social complaint. This poem is all complaint and it appears to be a complaint written for the Venetian judicial system. He went to Mouchli. Anonymous complained...
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Surprised by Time: Cheilas' Cleofe
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. Mistra in shrouds. Photo by Stella Chrysochoou. The monody by Nikiforos Cheilas. Is the last of the four monodies delivered at the mnemosyne. For Cleofe in late May of 1433. I have used them frequently in entries here for information, and have looked individually at those by P lethon. This identification with the listeners carries throughout as he talks about Cleofe and their grief in ways that they would wish they could have thought of, mo...
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Surprised by Time: On first looking into Chapman's Homer
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. On first looking into Chapman's Homer. In recent weeks I have been sorting through Pierre MacKay. S boxes and drawers and shelves and desks. The last project so far was the heavy glass-fronted bookcase beside his bed full of, he said, his father's poetry books. Most of these were late 19. Century and early 20. Wikipedia has an excellent article about. A prolific playwright, and possible the rival poet mentioned in Shakespeare's. And given t...
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Surprised by Time: Plethon's Cleofe
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A little wine for remembrance . . . a little water for the dust. Angel, Ag. Nicholas, Mistra. I recently discussed Bessarion's monody,. One of four given at the. For Cleofe Malatesta Palaiologina. The memorial would likely have been held at Ag. Sophia, where she had been buried. This is an extraordinary emphasis on Cleofe's body, however beautiful, and it should be remembered that Plethon believed that physical desire was a divine gift, and that it was through the body that we become like the gods. Cleme...
