"From thy fair face I learn, O my loved lord,
that which no mortal tongue can rightly say;
the soul, imprisoned in her house of clay,
helpen by thee to God hath often soared"

- Michelangelo, translated by J A Symonds
(Bronzino: Portrait of Cosimo de Medici as Orpheus)
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"Now look, your grace" said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't... (windmills)..."
"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, you don't know much about adventures."

📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Pablo Picasso, Don Quixote

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"Awake, I think, I burn, I weep; and she who is my undoing
Is ever before me to my sweet pain...
A thousand times a day I die and a thousand I am born;
So far away am I from my salvation."
Sonnet 164
Francesco Petrarca
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BOSOLA: Do you not weep?
Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

FERDINAND: Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

– John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi (1623) #BookWormSat

"For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand."

📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ H. Daumier, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness..."

📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Salvador Dalí, Don Quixote

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'Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.'
-Petrarch

@signemaene.com welcomes you to the Renaissance edition of #BookWormSat.

"How little you understand matters of chivalry, Sancho, replied Don Quixote. Be silent and patient, for the day will come when you will see with your own eyes how honourable it is to follow this profession." ~ Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes.
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Saturday

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#CastleSaturday
#Caturday
#ChessSaturday
#NonFictionSaturday
#PostboxSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
#SarcophagusSaturday
#SaturdayMono
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#SaturdayStripes
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"Not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is
the arbiter of one-half of our
actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half." -Machiavelli The Prince. #BookWormSat

📷. Trastevere, Rome

"It is by virtue of love that everything is produced, and love is in everything: it manifests itself as force and life in living beings... and is the very vigour of living things."

Giordano Bruno (1585)
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I find no peace, and all my war is done.
I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.
I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise;
And nought I have, and all the world I seize on.
That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison…

I find no peace
Wyatt
Translation from Petrarch
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