Aquarium of Vulcan

The opening sentence of Thomas Browne's  Urn-Burial  challenges the reader to look beyond mere surface appearances towards the ...

Giovan Pietro Birago (c.1450-1513 ) was born in Milan. In 1490 he entered the service of the leading Venetian family, the Sforza. Whil...

Music can draw the hearer in chains of gold to the consideration of holy things.    - Thomas Morley The 1711 Sales Catalogue of the l...

Enjoying the late return of Summer for several cloudless days now, with the temperature touching 27 degrees Celsius, I spotted a R...

Today (September 24th) is the anniversary of the death of the English composer William Lawes (1602-43). William Lawes was composer in...