"Me dijeron: / O te subes al carro / o tendrás que empujarlo. / Ni me subí ni lo empujé./ Me senté en la cuneta / y alrededor de mí, / a su debido tiempo, / brotaron las amapolas” #TalDiaComoHoy nació #GloriaFuertes. Un buen día para leerla, enamorarse de ella y leerla siempre

Today I learnt that there is a 1968 series of Charlie Brown books in Latin.

Journée du chat avec ce bois gravé lyonnais du XVIe siècle si réaliste 🤗

Marcar las distancias para no ser herido equivale a marcar las distancias para no ser amado. Y al final, ¿de qué sirve morir ileso? 🎨 Malcolm Liepke

#Happybirthday #Borges !! meow meow "Mirrors are not more silent nor the creeping dawn more secretive; in the moonlight, you are that panther we catch sight of from afar."

Alchemical miscellany. France, [ca. 1750] complete work digitized; more: bit.ly/34HTUMJ

Fantastic!!

«Piedra soy en sufrir pena y cuidado, y cera en el querer enternecido, sabio en amar dolor tan bien nacido, necio en ser en mi daño porfiado». El 14 de septiembre de 1580 nació Francisco de Quevedo, al que recordamos con estos versos. ¿Conoce el soneto al que pertenecen?

" y el sueño mudo rueda por los lechos donde las sombras comen el alimento de los peces y a través de las flores, emergen hacia el cielo." Dylan Thomas Reino Unido, 1914 - Estados Unidos, 1953

Academic friends and #twitterstorians, can you let me know if you're using my book on execution ballads in your teaching? Publisher is considering an affordable paperback if I can show it's being used in classrooms. Please get in touch if so! Pls RT x

We’re very excited to announce La Piccioletta Barca’s The Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2023: Nataliya Deleva Claudia Piñeiro 💚 🧡/Fiona J. Mackintosh AlaniRosa lagnajita Jessica Mendoza picciolettabarca.com/posts/pushcart… #pushcartprizenominee #pushcartprizenominees #pushcartprize

Stability, Prosthesis and Collapse in Montaigne’s Experience of Landscape 1 Feb 5pm UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social UCL CFFR @ucl-cffr.bsky.social is delighted to welcome Dr Alani Hicks-Bartlett (Brown University) to present a paper on Montaigne ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

New Book Alert, out next month: Early Modern Women's Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire Anne Cruz, Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez (eds)

I wrote about my book, Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds, available for pre-order and out at the end of February. ambereendadabhoy.com/2024/02/10/sha… #ShakeRace

sooo excited to read this!! cannot wait!! thanks for your wonderful work Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬

Uncommon Bodies Symposium: Premodern Disability and Race in a Global Context Thanks Jennie Row and Penny Geng!! I'm so grateful for this conversation and exchange <3 cla.umn.edu/premodern/news…

Yay for Early Modern Literature and Epic Poetry! So happy to work on Ariosto these days… 🙏🙏 “ Quel ch’io vi debbo, posso di parole/ pagare in parte e d’opera d’inchiostro;/ né che poco io vi dia da imputar sono,/ che quanto io posso dar, tutto vi dono” (OF 3.5-8)

Katherine Johnson, one of the first African-American NASA scientists who helped calculate the precise trajectories that allowed Apollo 11 to land on the moon in 1969, has passed away at the age of 101. May she Rest In Peace.

In early 2024 Throughlines hosted a workshop where book artist, Suzanne Coley, spoke on interpreting Shakespeare’s sonnets through a contemporary lens of bookmaking, embroidery, and printmaking. Be on the lookout for new Throughlines resources each month throughlines.org/suite-content/…