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Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur

Swany — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:37:27 +0000

Uni Mannheim: Cartari, Vincenzo (1531 – nach 1571), Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur: In quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaq[ue] ex parte veterum religio explicatur…

Smoking hush-hush pipe of love

Swany — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:45:39 +0000

Russian Times: “‘The heart is the language of the lover.’ That’s according to the inscription on the mouthpiece of a pipe probably used for smoking hashish and dating back to the Ottoman period which has been discovered in an archaeological excavation in Israel.

“‘Clay pipes of this kind were very common in the Ottoman period (16th-19th centuries CE), were mostly used for smoking tobacco, and some were even used to smoke hashish,’ Shahar Puni of the Israel Antiquities Authority explained. ]The Ottoman authorities tried to combat this practice but failed when it became clear that smoking was firmly entrenched in all levels of society,” he said.’”

Manichean avoidance of arboricide

Swany — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:13:05 +0000

Laudator Temporis Acti:: “The Cologne Mani Codex (P. Colon. inv. nr. 4780) “Concerning the Origin of His Body”, tr. Ron Cameron and Arthur J. Dewey (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1979)

“If you keep the [pain] away from us (trees), you will [not perish] with the murderer.” (p. 11, translating 7.2-4)

“[It] wasted away, [wailing] like human beings, and, as it were, like children. Alas! Alas! The blood was streaming down from the place cut by the pruning hook he held in his hands. And they were crying out in a human voice on account of their blows.” (Id., p. 13, translating 10.1-11)

Cf. also Augustine, Confessions 3.10.18 (tr. Henry Chadwick): “Gradually and unconsciously I was led to the absurd trivialities of believing that a fig weeps when it is picked, and that the fig tree its mother sheds milky tears.”

Portraits of humanist and reformation characters

Swany — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:10:51 +0000

Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim: “Boissard, Jean-Jacques; Bry, Theodor de: Bibliotheca chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagines. Heidelberg: Clemens Ammon, 1669.

“Diese Sammlung von 438 Gelehrtenbildnissen repräsentiert eine Gattung, die das Selbstverständnis von Humanisten und Reformatoren in charakteristischer Weise ausdrückt.”

Trees Are Like People

Swany — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:06:45 +0000

Laudator Temporis Acti: “Trees are like people. They have a head (vertex), a trunk (truncus), arms (bracchia). They stand tall like a soldier, or look as slender as a bridegroom (Sappho, 115 L-P). Their life moves in human rhythms, which in their case may be repeated: sap rises and falls, hair (coma) luxuriates, withers, drops off.”

On the life-saving effects of marijuana (laws)

Swany — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:31:03 +0000

Evolutionary Psychology Blog: “[L]egalization [for medical purposes] is associated with a nearly 9 percent decrease in traffic fatalities, most likely to due to its impact on alcohol consumption.”

Fabrizio Riccardi – Pantagruel

Swany — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:36:08 +0000

Works by Fabrizio Riccardi based on Les Songes Drolatiques.

Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel

Swany — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:58:51 +0000

Poemas del río Wang: The unbearable mask: “The 120 woodcuts that make up the volume of Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel appeared without almost any text in 1565. But the short and somewhat babbling preface by the printer, Richard Breton even so reveals everything that can be told about this curious collection of prints.”

Tiers livre des faictz et dictz Heroïques du noble Pantagruel

Swany — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:52:05 +0000

Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes:
Auteur : Rabelais, François
Titre : Tiers livre des faictz et dictz heroïques du noble Pantagruel
Imprimeur : Wechel, Chrétien
Libraire : Wechel, Chrétien
Date : 1546
Format : 4°
Collation : 184 f. ; italique, romain

Titre long: Tiers livre des faictz et dictz Heroïques du noble Pantagruel. Composez par M. Franç. Rabelais docteur en Medicine, & Calloïer des Isles Hieres. L’aucteur susdict supplie les Lecteurs benevoles, soy reserver a rire au soixante & dixhuytiesme livre.

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Langue : Français
Notes : La première édition du Tiers livre. Ce livre est condamné dès l’année suivante par la faculté de Théologie de Paris (voir Index de l’université de Paris, Sherbrooke et Genève, 1985, p. 382-383, n° 465 et p. 489).

François Desprez – The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

Swany — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:39:36 +0000

Monser Brains: “Included here are 100 of the 120 woodcuts of various bizarre characters from “Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel” translated into English as “The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel” published in 1565. A detailed article on the woodcuts can be found at Poemas del rio Wang. Additional information regarding the artworks can be found at BibliOdyssey. The Pantagruel woodcuts were previously mentioned on Monster Brains five years ago.”