👉🏻 Paolo and Francesca (1) ➡️ Byron👉🏻 Paolo e Francesca (2) ➡️ Boccaccio👉🏻 Paolo and Francesca (3) ➡️ Rossetti John Keats (English Romantic poet , 1795 – 1821 was inspired by the story of Paolo and Francesca in the fifth canto of the Inferno, and wrote a sonnet in the first volume of the miniature… Read More Paolo and Francesca (4) ➡️ Keats
👉🏻 Paolo and Francesca (1) ➡️ Byron 👉🏻 Paolo e Francesca (2) ➡️ Boccaccio The tragic story of Paolo and Francesca celebrated in the first section (Cantica) of The Divine Comedy, Inferno (Hell), by Dante inspired a watercolour, painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) in 1855 and now… Read More Paolo and Francesca (3) ➡️ Rossetti
👉 Paolo and Francesca (1) ➡️ Byron Nel giugno 1373 i cittadini di Firenze inviarono una petizione ai priori delle arti e al gonfaloniere di giustizia chiedendo la pubblica lettura del “libro che volgarmente si chiama el Dante“, per un anno tutti i giorni eccetto i festivi.L’incarico venne assegnato a Messer Giovanni Boccaccio che aveva… Read More Paolo e Francesca (2) ➡️ Boccaccio
Noi leggiavamo un giorno per diletto di Lancialotto come amor lo strinse; soli eravamo e sanza alcun sospetto. Per più fïate li occhi ci sospinse quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso; ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disïato riso esser basciato da cotanto amante, questi, che mai da me… Read More Paolo and Francesca (1) ➡️ Byron
8 aprile 1300: una data importante nella cultura italiana, il giorno in cui ha inizio il viaggio mistico cantato nella Divina Commedia.Infatti è proprio nella notte tra il 7 e l’8 aprile 1300 che Dante Alighieri si smarrisce nella selva oscura: «Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vitami ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta… Read More 8 aprile 1300: l’inizio del Viaggio
Billie Holiday, whose real name was Eleanora Fagan, was born on 7 April 1915. Nicknamed “Lady Day”, she was an American singer who rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s and is still considered to be one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.She succeeded in taking her pain and channeling it into… Read More Billie Holiday and Love
On 6 April 1968 Cliff Richard‘s song “Congratulations” finished second at the thirteenth Eurovision Song Contest which took place in the Royal Albert Hall in London and was the first to be broadcast in colour.The song, which was the favourite to win, lost by just one vote to Spain’s entry and some said that voting… Read More Congratulations 🎶
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic, who was born on 5 April 1837.He was famous for his innovative versification, and a central figure in the spread of ideas associated with Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and the Symbolist.Swinburne was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1903 to 1907 and… Read More At Parting
If in that Syrian garden, ages slain,You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain,Nor even in dreams behold how dark and brightAscends in smoke and fire by day and nightThe hate you died to quench and could but fan,Sleep well and see no morning, son of man. But if, the grave rent and… Read More Easter Hymn
George Herbert was an English poet and orator, born on 3 April 1593. He spent the last years of his life as an Anglican priest in a small country church in England. He died of consumption at the age of thirty-nine. “Easter Wings” is perhaps his most beloved poem. It is famous for the layout… Read More Easter Wings
