Tag Archives: Books

1965: Struggling from Darkness

Posted on July 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

If we approach the novel with one eye on the natural sciences today, we may say that it assembles its structure from…models of existence or reality in a manner that will hopefully be more true and more real than the … Continue reading →

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15th Century: The Ideal City

Posted on June 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Ideal City is the title given to three different paintings. The are generally referred to as The Ideal City of Urbino, The Ideal City of Baltimore, and The Ideal City of Berlin, according to where they are located—although all … Continue reading →

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1655: One Hundred Inventions

Posted on June 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

In 1655, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester composed his Century of Inventions — a listing of 100 things that needed to be invented. The full title is A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions As at … Continue reading →

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1789: Gifts from the Ebb Tide

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Kitagawa Utamaro: Pages from Gifts of the Ebb Tide (probably 1789) (source)

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1916: The King of the Cats

Posted on June 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

In Padraic Colum’s children’s classic The King of Ireland’s Son, this tale is told to the son by the king’s steward: The King of the Cats stood up. He was a grand creature. His body was brown and striped across … Continue reading →

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1830: What Color is Your Face Type?

Posted on June 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Joannes Bemme, after David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville: Drie gezichtstypen met bijbehorende kleuren [Three Face Types with Corresponding Colors], an illustration from Essai sur les signes inconditionnels dans l’art [Essay on Universal Symbols in Art] (1827-1830) (source)

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1874: Night Rushed Down from Heaven

Posted on June 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

Henry Moore: Rough Weather in the Mediterranean (1874) ὣς εἰπὼν σύναγεν νεφέλας, ἐτάραξε δὲ πόντον χερσὶ τρίαιναν ἑλών: πάσας δ᾽ ὀρόθυνεν ἀέλλας παντοίων ἀνέμων, σὺν δὲ νεφέεσσι κάλυψε γαῖαν ὁμοῦ καὶ πόντον: ὀρώρει δ᾽ οὐρανόθεν νύξ. —Odyssey V, 291-294 So … Continue reading →

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1900: Would Christ Belong to a Labor Union?

Posted on June 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

At the end of Cortland Meyer’s 1900 novel Would Christ Belong to a Labor Union? or Henry Fielding’s Dream (here), the title character—a working man and staunch trade unionist—has a dream of what it would be like to own and … Continue reading →

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1845: The Returned Clerk

Posted on June 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

THE RETURNED CLERK (1845) A person writing with authority said, “In 1845, I dreamt that on going to my office in the morning, I found seated at his usual desk a clerk, who had left me a twelve-month or more … Continue reading →

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1573: A Hundred Sundry Flowers

Posted on June 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

The full title of George Gascoigne’s 1573 collection of courtly poetry is A Hundredth Sundry Flowres bound up in one small Posie. Gathered partly (by translation) in the fyne outlandish Gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarch, Ariosto and others; and partly … Continue reading →

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