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infrequent capriccios, vignettes on literature & history.

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Escapism and Absolutism

There are a few conflicts which we could consider the “closing conflicts” of the middle ages: the Hussite Wars, the Wars of the Roses, the Venetian Wars against the Turks, the Burgundian Wars, at the latest the Italian Wars. But no conflict...

9 months ago
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Leftovers, Petals V

Whosoever is truly individual will soon transcend mere individuality—which is the idiosyncatic—in favour of super-individuality: archetypicality, ideal-typicality. Goethe puts it simply in his botanical writings: Everything that is perfect...

a year ago
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The Peak as the Pedastal

In 1804, on a grand tour through Italy, a Bildungsreise, Friedrich Schinkel, the Prussian architect, writes about his ascent to Mount Etna: “It was as if I could see the entire world with a single gaze… Everything below was so easy to grasp...

2 years ago
24

Notes on Horace's Satires

In the first circle of hell, the circle reserved for virtuous pagans, Dante, the great poet, meets the “bella scola”, the greatest poets of antiquity, in Dante's view, which we may take to be the view of the middle ages at large. Among thos...

3 years ago
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Notes taken while viewing the Old Masters in Dresden

Rosalba Carriera, portraits: pastel on paper. As always with pastel: incredible softness of texture. The hair of her portraits is cloudlike, powdered.

The white of the skin—mark of beauty in the 18th century; pale was aristocratic—shines...

3 years ago
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