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Florence: Duomo Additional views: Some details: Another view from the Palazzo Vecchio: Florence: Palazzo Vecchio A different vi...

Of a Toyokuni Color-Print by William Ernest Henley Was I a Samurai renowned, Two-sworded, fierce, immense of bow? A histrion angular an...

Except for the last one, all of these are inspired by other poems. The first is based on a passage in the Kalevala (Runo 21); the second on ...

An interesting passage by Aquinas: ...pueri in maternis uteris existentes nondum prodierunt in lucem, ut cum aliis hominibus vitam ducant....

obtuse: unintelligent, stupid; from Latin obtusus , dull, blunt, the state belonging to the edge of a blade that has been heavily beaten. ...

Today is the feast of St. Anselm of Canterbury. A bit of something from Anselm's philosophical fragments (I use Jasper Hopkins 's t...

The most famous sightseeing spot in Milan, of course, is at the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie , which we see here from inside its court...