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ill-advised: BOOK: Marco Girolamo Vida, "Christiad"

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. BOOK: Marco Girolamo Vida, "Christiad". Translated by James Gardner. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol 39. Harvard University Press, 2009. 9780674034082. For example, in book 1 Jesus visits the temple in Jerusalem and admires the sculptures there; they depict the creation of the world and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise, so we get a long description of these events (1.591–673). Book 4 consists mostly of a flashback by John...

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ill-advised: Spam of the month

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ill-advised: On Elven life-expectancy

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Saturday, January 24, 2015. I've been thinking about that memorable passage from the Curse of the Noldor in Tolkien's. Ldquo;For though Eru appointed to you to die not in Eä, and no sickness may assail you, yet slain ye may be, and slain ye shall be: by weapon and by torment and by grief; and your houseless spirits shall come then to Mandos.”. Step on a banana peel. Deaths per 100,000. That's a total of 67.9 deaths per 100,000 people. Thus your chance of dy...679 /...

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ill-advised: April 2005

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Friday, April 29, 2005. The ugly decorative clown on the left was included with a package of easter egg chocolate candies. Who the * * got the crazy idea that people would be happy to see that ugly-ass monstrosity included with their candy? It is, of course, made in China. Now just picture this: a bunch of poor, exploited, underpaid Chinese workers are slaving their days away in some hideous underground den excuse for a factory - why? Or they figured that the consu...

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ill-advised: May 2005

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Sunday, May 29, 2005. BOOK: George G. Napier, "The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott". George G. Napier:. The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1897. xvi 216 pp. I haven’t read very much Scott so far; only. I was particularly touched by the story of John Leyden, who worked together with Scott on the. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Are still waiting unread on one of my shelves. In short...

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ill-advised: Contents

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Sunday, February 12, 2006. NB Although this post is originally from February 2006, it isn't out of date — I always update it when I add new posts to the blog.]. History — Ancient. L Sprague de Camp and Catherine C. de Camp,. Lives of the Popes. History — Medieval. History of the Florentine People. Maps, Myths, and Men. R A Skelton et al.,. The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. History — WW1. James W. Gerard,. Face to Face with Kaiserism. Robert K. Massie,. J R R...

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ill-advised: BOOK: Aurelio Lippo Brandolini, "Republics and Kingdoms Compared"

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Monday, December 08, 2014. BOOK: Aurelio Lippo Brandolini, "Republics and Kingdoms Compared". Republics and Kingdoms Compared. Edited and translated by James Hankins. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol 40. Harvard University Press, 2009. 9700674033986. This book was an interesting but very frustrating read. It's structured as a dialogue between king Matthias Corvinus. Towards the end of the discussion, even Matthias admits that. Critical of the republic. There's ...

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ill-advised: BOOK: Grund (ed.), "Humanist Comedies"

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Saturday, July 28, 2007. BOOK: Grund (ed.), "Humanist Comedies". Edited and translated by Gary R. Grund. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol 19. Harvard University Press, 2005. 0674017447. This book contains five 15th-century comedies (well, actually one is from the late 14th century). Are the same as the word for ‘to have an orgasm’ ” (translator's note, p. 442). Fortunately these puns also translate quite well (“ ‘I'm coming! On comedy, and also this web page.

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ill-advised: BOOK: Antonio Beccadelli, "The Hermaphrodite"

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Saturday, December 27, 2014. BOOK: Antonio Beccadelli, "The Hermaphrodite". Edited and translated by Holt Parker. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol 42. Harvard University Press, 2010. 9780674047570. After all this hype, it was almost inevitable that I got a little disappointed by the actual contents of the book. Beccadelli. Was a 15th-century Italian author from Palermo and the. Several of the poems are short invectives against characters both imaginary and real...

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ill-advised: BOOK: Florentius de Faxolis, "Book on Music"

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Where Dulness doses on a couch of lead. Friday, January 23, 2015. BOOK: Florentius de Faxolis, "Book on Music". Edited and translated by Bonnie J. Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol 43. Harvard University Press, 2010. 9780674049437. This book contains a treatise on music written in the late 15th century for cardinal Ascanio Sforza. Brother of the better-known Ludovico. I don't remember when was the last time that I felt so completely out of my depth while readin...