Questa settimana Eletta Senso (qui) ha presentato un nuovo gioco linguistico, cioè un testo che giochi sulla ripetizione del suono SCI/ SCE oppure un altro a vostra scelta.Ecco la mia proposta : Priscilla scese velocemente dallo scivolo affascinata da questa scenetta: con un ramoscello una scimmia sciamannata trascinava un vascello nel ruscello accanto a pesciolini… Read More Suoni đ
The letters exchanged between Emma and Nelson while he was at sea betray the constant fear that they would fall into strange hands, therefore they used to mask any communications relating to her pregnancy by pretending that Nelson’s letters were dictated to him by a sailor under his command named Thompson, whose pregnant wife was… Read More Lady Hamilton & Horatio Nelson: Horatia (part 27)
Nelson and Emma exchanged a lot of letters, in one of which he told her that she was his wife âin my eyes and in the face of heavenâ. However they were always very careful not to write anything compromising, since they feared that their correspondence, if intercepted, might harm them. They were fully aware… Read More Lady Hamilton & Horatio Nelson: Horatia (part 26)
Arriving in England, Nelson received a hero’s welcome from the people, while Emma had a cooler reception, also because she could barely conceal her pregnancy. She had never been unfaithful to Sir William since she had become his mistress in 1787, and then his wife four years later. Nelson too, in his own way, had… Read More Lady Hamilton – Horatio Nelson: In England (part 25)Â
Un inglese italianato è un diavolo incarnato. (Old Italian saying)The Englishman who acts like an Italian is the devil personified. Nelson‘s reward for his despicable actions of which he was guilty in the Bay of Naples against the surrendered patriots came in October 1799: the king made him Duke of Bronte and assigned him an… Read More Lady Hamilton – Horatio Nelson: Back to England (part 24)Â
King Ferdinand IV, described as both âtimid and bigotedâ and âcruel and vengefulâ, who had promptly fled away, now, when victory was assured, reappeared, condemning Ruffoâs âshameful capitulationâ.The betrayal of the surrenders resulted in savage reprisals against anyone suspected of having supported the Republic or dishonoured the monarch. The harshness of the Bourbon reaction, with… Read More Lady Hamilton – Horatio Nelson and Naples (part 23)Â
Eletta Senso (qui) questa settimana ha proposto un nuovo gioco linguistico: un testo che contenga almeno tre anagrammi della stessa parola. Nel mio caso: RESTO, SORTE, ESTRO, SERTO, TERSO, che compaiono nella frase: âDel resto, quale miglior sorte per il nostro estro ? Un serto in capo o un cielo terso?â Chi vuol giocare dovrĂ … Read More Anagrams âď¸Ars Magna
Queen Maria Carolina, who had declared a few years earlier that “she would like to be Robespierre”, made use of Nelson’s lover, Lady Hamilton, to induce him to carry out her revenge. Nelson therefore imprisoned the Republicans on the ship at anchor in the bay of Naples, pending further developments.At first it seemed that Eleonora… Read More Lady Hamilton, Nelson and Neapolitan Patriots: Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca/V (part 22)
Accused of possessing and reading forbidden books and of holding sedition meetings at her house, Eleonora Pimentel was arrested and taken to the Vicaria prison. During her imprisonment, she wrote two poems: âInno alla LibertĂ /Hymn to Freedomâ, which she later recited at the proclamation of the Neapolitan Republic, and the famous sonnet âRediviva Poppea,… Read More Lady Hamilton, Nelson and Neapolitan Patriots: Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca/IV (part 21)
“Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâtĂŠ.â (epigram tacked to the office bulletin board of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, born on 18 November 1939) âAll writers are double, for the simple reason that you can never actually meet the author of… Read More Authors đď¸
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