FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION
Quotes that will get your imagination going.
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
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GESUALDO CASTLE REDUX. The rebirth of Carlo Gesualdo’s princely residence. Last month I visited Gesualdo, the home of Carlo Gesualdo...
Thursday, 25 September 2014
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RAIDS ON PROTESTANTS, LEUVEN 1542 Franciso de Encinas' translation of the New Testament When Francisco de Encinas came to Leu...
Sunday, 7 September 2014
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TRICKING THE AUTHORITIES IN 1542 Antonius Schorus (b. 1525 in Hoogstraten) sympathized with the Protestant reformers. This did no...
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Thursday, 4 September 2014
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SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELY TO ANIMALS? NOT IN NAPLES, 1594 When Fynes Moryson arrived in Naples in 1594, it was the shape...
Monday, 1 September 2014
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AUSTRIA TOO CAUTIOUS TO RISK WAR?This man didn’t see WWI coming. From John Corson’s travelogue, 1848: The Austrian government wa...
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