Acrostico 🔤

🄼 🄰 🅁 🅉 🄾 Questa settimana Eletta Senso ha suggerito un acrostico doppio a specchio sulla parola MARZO⇔OZRAM (qui) Ecco la mia proposta: MeseAffollato diRinascite, i cuiZampilliiOdorosiOrnanoZelanti laRadiosaAriaMarzolina Se volete giocare, aggiungete i vostri acrostici (semplici o doppi) nei commenti: saranno riportati qui⤵️ Achille Schiavone Meravigliati occhiAddentano bramosiRaggi di soleZebrati riflessiOsservo nell’ariaOltrepassa la luceZompettando… Read More Acrostico 🔤

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The Nelson Family: Clergymen (part 72)

I have read that in the Church of England, in the 18th and 19th century, it was not easy to secure a place as a clergyman, which was not based solely on merit or faith.With enough money and connections a man could be ordained as a minister of the Church and settled into a desirable… Read More The Nelson Family: Clergymen (part 72)

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Horatia Nelson in England (part 71)

Horatia remained with the Matchams for two years, caring for their youngest children.She later moved to Burnham Market, a village near the north coast of Norfolk, England, to live with her widowed uncle Thomas Bolton and three of his daughters, as their housekeeper. Norfolk County had always been linked to the Nelson family.Her grandfather, the… Read More Horatia Nelson in England (part 71)

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Renoir🎨

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, peintre français (25 février 1841 – 1919) “Pour moi, un tableau doit être une chose aimable, joyeuse et jolie. Oui, jolie! Il y assez de choses embêtantes dans la vie pour que nous n’en fabriquions pas d’autres encore.”.“La douleur passe, la beauté reste” il dit à Matisse qu’il lui avait demandé pourquoi il… Read More Renoir🎨

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Samuel Lover aka Ben Trovato

Samuel Lover, born on 24 February 1797 in Dublin, was an Irish novelist, poet, songwriter, and a portrait painter, also known by the pseudonym “Ben Trovato”, meaning “well invented“.This derives from an aphorism by Giordano Bruno (Italian monk, philosopher, cosmologist who was burned at the stake in Rome, in 1600 for his opinions on astronomy… Read More Samuel Lover aka Ben Trovato

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Horatia Nelson: Back to England (part 70)

The situation of Horatia for the last few years had been terrible: she had had to overcome cruel trials, months spent in gaol, days in an open boat tossed by rough seas, forced to flee from England to France.“ I also leave to the beneficence of my Country my adopted daughter Horatia Nelson Thompson.” had… Read More Horatia Nelson: Back to England (part 70)

22 February 2023 luisa zambrotta63 Comments

Tautogramma in Ⓘ

Il gioco linguistico presentato da Eletta Senso questa settimana (qui) è un tautogramma in Ⓘ, Come sapete, si tratta comporre un testo in cui quasi tutte le parole iniziano con la stessa lettera, in questo caso la vocale Ⓘ. Ecco la mia proposta “Ignorando inezie e invisibili impedimenti Ignazio s’incamminò intrepido intonando inni irriverenti: intendeva… Read More Tautogramma in Ⓘ

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Lady Hamilton’s Ghost (part 69)

After being interred in an oak coffin in the public cemetery, just outside Calais, Emma Hamilton was moved somewhere else because that churchyard was converted into a timber-yard in 1816.She was probably relocated to a cemetery near a theatre in an area that was later devastated during World War I and World War II.People say… Read More Lady Hamilton’s Ghost (part 69)

20 February 2023 luisa zambrotta72 Comments

Lady Hamilton in Calais (part 68)

Emma was buried in Calais on January 21 in the graveyard of the Eglise de St Pierre, outside the town, without any sign.Some time later an unknown person planted a wooden cross bearing the inscription “Emma Hamilton, England’s Friend”. Another unknown hand removed it. This happened twice. A British visitor passing through Calais in September… Read More Lady Hamilton in Calais (part 68)

19 February 2023 luisa zambrotta54 Comments

Lady Hamilton & Horatia in Calais (part 67)

When the news of Emma Hamilton’s death reached Britain very few people were concerned, besides her creditors who were worried about their prospects of repayment.However, there were a couple of men who seemed really willing to know more. One of them was her nephew Colonel Fulke-Greville, the younger brother and heir of Charles Greville, to… Read More Lady Hamilton & Horatia in Calais (part 67)

17 February 2023 luisa zambrotta74 Comments

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