Italian I I.2 Un Canzone Updated 06/26
Un Vecchio Frack by Domenico Modugno
Probably Modugno’s finest song, and that is saying a great deal. You will find it on Youtube but when I post the link it does not work so go to it yourself.
Category: Fleming
Darkness Visible: The Elizabethans, Part II
When the greatest magus of the age, Giordano Bruno, was burned at the stake at the Campo dei Fiori in Rome in 1600, Bruno’s English friends and followers were careful to distance themselves from their discredited master
Paper Moon White House
For days I have been haunted by the idea that Donald Trump, especially in his most recent incarnation as buffoon-in-chief, reminds me of someone.
Italian II.1
Continued study of Passato Rimoto and a lot of vocabulary on asking and giving directions.
Darkness Visible: Elizabethan Black Magic, Part I
The men of the English Renaissance prided themselves on their rationality and their freedom from the barbarous superstitions of the Middle Ages
Greek I.40 Irregular Adjectives with audio ΑΝD CORRECTIONS
One common type of irregular adjective and two oddballs.
Victorian Poems: Yeats
Here are three poems–I may add one or two more–of William Butler Yeats that show the influence of his lifelong interest in the occult.
If You Know, You Know
You know you are living in an ideological tyranny, when……Please fill in the blanks. I’ll start with a few.
Victorian Poems: Ernest Dowson
These are several poems of Ernest Dowson (1867-1902). Everyone who has any knowledge of English verse is familiar with his most famous poem, “Cynara,” which has suffered the indignity of being quoted in O’Neil’s play “Long Day’s Journey” and parodied by Cole Porter.
