Aquarium of Vulcan

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

'Galant and Festive' - Mozart Serenades and Violin Concertos

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A recent  Harmonia Mundi  recording (January '25) by the Munich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Enrico Onofri of the  Haffner  and  Posth...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Jupiter’s brain in a piece of Cytheridian cheese

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The English philosopher-physician Thomas Browne (1605-82) possessed refined senses. Along with his sharp eyesight and acute olfactory sense ...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Why the goddesses sit commonly cross-legged in ancient draughts ?

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In the concluding chapter of Thomas Browne's hermetic discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) the physician-philosopher fires a rapid voll...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

'A paradise of books' - Dr. Browne's library

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In 1671 King Charles II visited Norwich. Accompanying him was the Courtier John Evelyn who wrote in his diary- 'My Lord Henry Howard com...
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