"My true love hath my hart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other giv'ne.
I hold his deare, and myne he cannot misse;
There never was a better bargaine driv'ne."

- Sir Philip Sidney, 16th Century
(🎨 An Elizabethan bit of ruff by Nicholas Hilliard)

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"Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."
-Paradise Lost, John Milton
🎨Gustave Dore
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What a piece of work is a man? How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable; in action, how like an angel; in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world; the paragon of animals…
Shakespeare, HAMLET, 2.2
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#Renaissance #Humanism

But he is worst, who (beggarly) doth chaw
Others' wits' fruits, and in his ravenous maw
Rankly digested, doth those things outspew,
As his own things; and they'are his own, 'tis
For if one eat my meat, though it be known
The meat was mine, th'excrement is his own

John Donne, Satire 2

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2/2 That in the channell strayes,
Whilst from off the waters fleet
Thus I set my printless feet
O're the Cowslips Velvet head,
That bends not as I tread,
Gentle swain at thy request
I am here.
-Sabrina Fair, John Milton
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1/2 Sabrina rises, attended by water-Nymphes, and sings.

By the rushy-fringed bank,
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank,
My sliding Chariot stayes,
Thick set with Agat, and the azurn sheen
Of Turkis blew, and Emrauld green
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‘The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde,
In this delightful land of Faery…
My tedious trauell doe forget thereby;
And when I gin to feele decay of might,
It strength to me supplies and chears my dulled spright.’ ~ Spenser #BookWormSat

"One man of our ship company, Brandenburg by birth, came home after town-curfew and knocked on the wrong door. At this the servant bade him go whereupon he slew him with his halberd."

Age of Discovery-era "An Icelanders Voyage to India"
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🖼️ Schilling the Younger (1515)

‘For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.’ ~
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene.
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🖼️ John Melhuish

"There sate dame Musike with all her minstralsy,
As taboures,trumpettes, with pipes melodious,
Sakbuttes, organs, and the recorder swetely,
Harpes, lutes, and crowddes right delicious,
[...] eche in their degre
Did sitte about their ladyes mageste."
- Stephen Hawes, approx 1500
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THE MEDICI SEAL, by @carnegiemedals.bsky.social -winning author Theresa Breslin, is a #YA #HistoricalFiction novel set amid the deadly intrigues of Renaissance Italy. Can Matteo survive the bloody feuds of the Borgias & Medicis?
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Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

– Thomas Nashe, 'A Litany in Time of Plague' (A song from Summer's Last Will and Testament, 1600)
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April, San Gimignano, Tuscany. Was delighted by this lovely man reciting Dante’s Divine Comedy in the early Tuscan dialect it was written in.

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...for although the figures are visible... (they) cannot be seen with the smoothness and colour of the right side."

So it's traduttore - traditore, according to Cervantes.
Well, Miguel, maybe true in 1615 but there have been developments, I'm glad to report. Although ...
:D

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"Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side...
1/

📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Flemish tapestry, Workshop of U.& D. Leyniers

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#BookWormSat is celebrating #RenaissanceLiterature today. Here are some lovely pages from a recent afternoon viewing celestial renaissance manuscripts in La Capitolare di Verona - 1,509 years old & the oldest library in the world still in operation today ✨

"Until death it is all life."

📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Octavio Ocampo, Visions of Quixote

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