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Category Archives: Printing and Publishing
1687 and All That
If Francesco Morosini is remembered worldwide today, it is probably for the collateral damage caused when a stray Venetian cannon ball hit the gunpowder store which the Turks had so thoughtfully placed in the Parthenon during the siege of Athens. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biography, History, Italy, Museums and Galleries, Printing and Publishing, Venice
Tagged Athens, Candia, cat, Crete, Francesco Morosini, Parthenon
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A Secret Garden
Of course, a great many gardens in Venice are secret – that is, invisible to the normal passer-by in the calle. But the garden of Palazzo Soranzo Cappello is probably the most famous secret garden in the city (with the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Botany, Gardens, History, Italy, Literature, Natural history, Printing and Publishing, Venice
Tagged gardens, Henry James, Palazzo Soranzo Cappello, The Aspern Papers, Venice
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The Great Belzoni
… is today hung on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum – or, at any rate, a spectacular likeness produced after his death is. I mentioned this fascinating character several times in my previous blogging persona, but his arrival in Cambridge … Continue reading
The Loss of the ‘Royal George’
Was Proust the first or merely the best to describe the extraordinary moment when a completely forgotten incident in your life rises fully formed in your memory? In my most recent incident, it was a phone call at work about … Continue reading
A Life in Footnotes
I mentioned some time ago that I was going to investigate (at my usual superficial level, naturally) the life and career of the physician Francesco Travagino (sometimes Travagini), who appears to have taken advantage of a space on somebody else’s … Continue reading
Plant of the Month: April 2019
Which came first, fritillary as the name of a plant (Fritillaria meleagris, the snake’s-head fritillary, also known as chess-flower, Lazarus-bell, leper-lily, frog-cup, or drooping tulip), or fritillary as the name of a butterfly? It seems that the plant has priority, … Continue reading
Object of the Month: March 2019
May I strongly recommend the new exhibition in the Fan Gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum (it’s on until January 2020, so you have plenty of time)? It is a selection of the fan collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, given … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Botany, Cambridge, France, History, London, Museums and Galleries, Natural history, Printing and Publishing
Tagged botanical fan, Erasmus Darwin, Fan Museum, fans, Fitzwilliam Museum, Sarah Ashton
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