Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924).
Francis Picabia, like his close friend and collaborator Marcel Duchamp, was a man of many names. While Duchamp famously went by his feminine alter ego Rrose Sélavy and signed his 1917 Fountain with the pseudonym R. Mutt, Picabia adopted numerous aliases across his literary and artistic practice.
Italian architect Guarino Guarini was born #OTD in 1624.
Trained in Rome by the example of Francesco Borromini, after several trips, Guarini was particularly active in the city of Turin, where he became one of the leading exponents of Piedmontese Baroque; his major achievements include the Chapel of the Holy Shroud in the Duomo, the Carignano Palace and the Church of San Lorenzo.
"Quero ser a pintora do meu país." (I want to be the painter of my country)
Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator Tarsila do Amaral died #OTD in 1973.
As a member of the Grupo dos Cinco, Tarsila is also considered a major influence in the modern art movement in Brazil, alongside Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Picchia, Mário de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade. She was instrumental in the formation of the aesthetic movement, Antropofagia (1928–1929).
The Anglo-Irish writers and cousins Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, writing under the name Martin Ross) first meet, at Castletownshend, County Cork, Ireland.
They are most famous for their series of books that were made into the TV series The Irish R.M.. They also wrote other work together, including the novel The Real Charlotte, considered their masterpiece.
Lo scorso ottobre è uscita la terza raccolta di racconti dedicati al ciclo di Spaghetti fantasy pubblicato da Acheron Books: Zappa e Spada 3. La vendemmia. La novità l’ho recuperata – fresca fresca…
Fra le nebbie del passato. Saggio pubblicato nel 1920 da Arturo Issel, scienziato poliedrico che qui si occupa degli antichi Liguri. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da: liberliber.it/autori/autori-i/…
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Nel fitto di una densa foresta una famiglia di selvaggi nudi ed inermi fugge atterrita dinanzi alla bufera che imperversa colla massima violenza: le nubi occultano la luce del giorno, il vento sibila, schiantando le piante e t…
L'immagine mostra uno scheletro umano parzialmente decomposto, giacente nel terreno. Il cranio è visibile e sembra indossare una sorta di copricapo o ornamento composto da molti piccoli oggetti. Le ossa sono disposte in modo irregolare, come se fossero state disturbate. Il contesto sembra essere un sito archeologico.
Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan writes his first letter to G. H. Hardy at Cambridge (whom he knew from studying Orders of Infinity), stating without proof various formulae involving integrals, infinite series, and continued fractions, beginning a long correspondence between the two as well as widespread recognition of Ramanujan's results.
The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615.
The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615.
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by "Northamptonshire peasant poet" John Clare is published in England by John Taylor. The book was highly praised and the next year his Village Minstrel and Other Poems appeared.
Henry James Byron's comedy Our Boys opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play until the 1890s, with 1,362 performances up to April 1879. It also opens this year in New York, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre.
Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.
As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: "the smertest boat in the coastin' tred". The stories sparked considerable interest in the puffers, and many books explore their now vanished world.
The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's ashes are interred in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, London. Meanwhile, Hardy's heart is interred where he wished to be buried, in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in the churchyard of his parish of birth, Stinsford in Dorset. Later in the year, his widow Florence publishes the first part of a biography, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1891, in fact largely dictated by Hardy.
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Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.
I misteri delle soffitte. Romanzo di appendice, opera di Carolina Invernizio, scrittrice del primo Novecento amatissima dal pubblico, ma dai critici detta "la casalinga di Voghera". Il testo, in pdf, si può scaricare gratis da: liberliber.it/autori/autori-i/…
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Era la notte del giovedì grasso. Nessuno si ricordava di un inverno mite come quello, e il carnevale aveva uno sfogo inusitato.
Ritratto in bianco e nero di una donna con capelli corti raccolti in un'acconciatura elegante. Indossa una camicia chiara con un colletto alto e una spilla al centro. L'espressione del suo viso è seria e composta.
Programme du séminaire 2025 "Littérature, vie familiale, vie politique, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles" de l'université de Rouen : fabula.org/actualites/125052/l…
Littérature, vie familiale et vie politique (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) Séminaire coordonné par Yohann Deguin et Laurence Macé, avec le Collège XVII-XVIII du CÉRÉdI (Centre d’études et de recherches Éditer/Interpréter), Université de Rouen Norm…
Norwegian folklorist, writer, and zoologist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was born #OTD in 1812.
He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. The most famous collection, "Norske Folkeeventyr" ("Norwegian Folktales"), was co-published with Moe starting in 1841. He worked as a zoologist and forestry expert, publishing writings on nature and the environment.
Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician Carlo Blasis died #OTD in 1878.
He published an analysis of the ballet techniques in 1820, in a work named Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse. He is most known for the pose "Attitude" derived from the famous statue Mercury by Giovanni da Bologna.
Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is completed. It was published later March 26 by Gosselin in Paris.
Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
These parlamentary experiences inspired Byron to write political poems such as Song for the Luddites (1816) and The Landlords' Interest, Canto XIV of The Age of Bronze. Examples of poems in which he attacked his political opponents include Wellington: The Best of the Cut-Throats (1819) and The Intellectual Eunuch Castlereagh (1818).
La présidente péruvienne Dina Boluarte a comparu devant la justice pour une affaire qui pourrait lui valoir plus qu'un nouveau profil : une opération du nez en juillet 2023 gardée secrète et qualifiée depuis sa révélation d'abandon de poste.
Le #colloque 2025 de la Société des Amis de Port-Royal, organisé par Olivier Andurand, Valérie Guittienne-Mürger, Philippe Luez et Pierre Wachenheim, se déroulera au lycée Louis le Grand les 16 et 17 octobre 2025. Il a pour intitulé "Au miroir de l'autre. Port-Royal et la Société de Jésus". Un appel à communications a été lancé : fabula.org/actualites/125056/a…
AU MIROIR DE L’AUTRE. PORT-ROYAL ET LA SOCIÉTÉ DE JÉSUS AMPHITHÉÂTRE CHÉREAU – LYCÉE LOUIS LE GRAND 123, RUE SAINT-JACQUES, 75005 PARIS 16, 17 OCTOBRE 2025 Qu’est-ce qu’un jésuite, demande Pierre-Antoine Fabre dans l’introduction de la...
Arrivato il Kickstarter di TOTEM, il nuovo GDR made in Officina Meningi di cui avevo raccontato di una sessione di prova con Atropo Kelevra qui: ossessionicontaminazioni.com/2…
Già ho scritto recensioni positive a due giochi di Officina Meningi: la serie di libri game dedicati a Lovecraft e la escape room da tavolo dedicata alla vedova di Matteotti, non poteva perciò non …
@Ilmaji al momento ho fatto solo una sessione di prova che ho raccontato sul post al link. In sintesi mi è piaciuto. È anche da dire che ha masterato l'autrice quindi occorre metterlo alla prova con un master "esterno"
Intorno al ceppo. Mario Borsa, letterato e traduttore, ha qui raccolto 15 novelle "da leggere intorno al ceppo", di vari autori italiani e stranieri. Si possono scaricare gratis, in pdf, da: liberliber.it/autori/autori-i/…
Nonostante il regime fascista avesse trovato il modo di arrestarlo comunque – anche se per un solo giorno, il 12 gennaio 1935, grazie al tempestivo intervento dell’ambasciata inglese – Mario Borsa si era almeno apparentemente defilato, nella prima me…
Certo, ecco una descrizione alternativa del testo per l'immagine:
L'immagine ritrae una scena d'interno in una casa rustica. Una donna anziana è seduta vicino ad una ruota da filatura, intenta a lavorare. Accanto al focolare, una giovane donna in abito tradizionale è seduta con un uomo, che sembra osservarla mentre lei manipola dei fili. Un gatto nero si trova in mezzo a loro, e un cane giace sul pavimento vicino. L'ambiente è caldo e familiare, con un'atmosfera tranquilla e domestica.
See Charles Dickens' Rare Manuscripts, Teenage Love Letters and a Copy of 'David Copperfield' That Traveled to Antarctica
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Charles Dickens Museum in London is staging an exhibition of historic objects that shed light on the writer’s life and legacy
"Here is a golden Rule to begin with. Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyed this Rule! A great deal of the bad writing in the world comes simply from writing too quickly."
Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (1890)
~Lewis Carroll (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898)
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome. The young Enrico Caruso had hoped to create the role of Cavaradossi, but was passed over in favour of the more experienced Emilio De Marchi. The performance was to be directed by Nino Vignuzzi, with stage designs by Adolfo Hohenstein.
Giovanni Verga's play Cavalleria rusticana, taken from his short story, is first performed, by Cesare Rossi's company at the Teatro Carignano in Turin, starring Eleonora Duse.
Kate Chopin's short stories "Désirée's Baby" and "A Visit to Avoyelles" appear in Vogue magazine in the United States. It first appeared under the title "The Father of Désirée's Baby" in a section called "Character Studies".
Era il 1989. Con un ritardo di 11 anni uscì per la casa editrice Leonardo il romanzo di Tim O’Brien Inseguendo Cacciato, la storia di un soldato americano in Vietnam che disertava per andare a Pari…
Compendiosa narratione dello Stato della Missione Cinese, cominciando dall’Anno 1581 fino al 1669. Prospero Intorcetta, missionario gesuita nella Cina del XVII secolo, fu il primo traduttore delle opere di Confucio in Europa. Qui racconta le vicende delle missioni in Cina precedenti e della sua, il saggio si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da: liberliber.it/autori/autori-i/…
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Vengo dalla Cina, ultima parte dell’Asia, mandato Procuratore da’ Padri della Compagnia di Giesù, acciò di presenza a nome di tutti loro prostrato a’ piedi dell’EE.VV.
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