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Map published by the Bureau of Longitudes depicting the path of the Moon's shadow during the total solar eclipse of August 17, 1868.

Believe it or not, two major Italian publishing houses rejected the manuscript of one of Italy’s literary masterpieces — Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), written by the 11th Prince of Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi (1896–1957). #Literature #Italy #Writers #novels

Dante Alighieri is the best illustration of the fundamental principle stated by John Henry Cardinal Newman, that a great author “is one who has something to say and knows how to say it.” #Dante #poetrycommunity #Literature #art

The shallow misreading of Plato on the artists in the Republic fails to recognize a huge point: Art, poetry, drama, literature, etc. does - in fact - teach morality. And not all art is morally the same in what it signifies. Plato actually has a "high" view of art in this regard.

I've just read a synopsis of a study of a few dozen college freshmen, intending to major in English, and their attempts to read the first several paragraphs of Dickens' Bleak House. Bleak's the word for it. Something puzzled me about how the investigators framed their question.

Published in 1911, The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in English literature. The central metaphor of the poem is the image of the White Horse of Berkshire, above the valley where King Alfred the Great fought the Danes. #poetry #Literature #England

Drawing of the Labyrinth of the Minotaur from the manuscript "Liber Floridus" by Lambert of Saint-Omer, created in 1121 AD. Currently housed at Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, Hs. 92, fol. 20r.

Did Plato believe Atlantis was real? In Timaeus, Socrates says the story of Atlantis is NOT just a myth but “a true history.” #Atlantis #Plato #Philosophy

"For many novelists, I am sure, the accumulation of immemorial memories is what makes them write. They speak for hundreds of dead, their dead; they express, finally, everything their ancestors have kept deep in their souls." - Julien Green (1900–1998)