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Dora Abodi.

Read a lot of great Renaissance books today but my FAVE is this 1480s first edition divine comedy with extensive academic commentary with painted gold leaf illuminations and engravings from drawings by Botticelli! He didn't illustrate the entire thing but it is the first recorded attempt of a master painter moving into printed books as a media. I've never read it in the original Italian and was SO delighted to hear the flow....

lesb0

+ this gorgeous book is also HUGE ft. my friends hand lol. Fine rag paper can be so much larger than vellum can be stretched, and it was a little cheaper even though it still looks good centuries later. With no budget to a handwriter or a vellum producer, every other page could have paintings and inlaid engraving prints like these. unfortunately, this one is incomplete. This book is mostly just hundreds of pages of text and analysis of the comedy by a very early scholar. The patron either died, lost interest, or ran out of money.

11thfempachi

Girls just wanna have fun

#hiii claricia 🩷🩷#the dick near her hand heh

mrsfurley

valtsv

i love the part of making art where you feel like you need to go missing

rockabillywife

I’m starting a gofundme to get a mojito

papayajuan2019

Translator's Note: I love you.

hateusandseeifwemind

I self administered black tea to the point of madness.

flopstat

i think abt anne rice’s answer to “what are your work habits for a novel?” probably every single day

flopstat

#im. realising things about myself

asnowyplover

bro it sounds like maybe you need a reminder of the glorious interconnectedness of all things?

karvaiset-sankareidet

Minä kiirastulessa piinattavana:

"Subjektiivisesti en nauti tästä esityksestä – mutta eittämättä se saavuttaa itselleen asettamansa tavoitteet – piina itsessään on huolellisesti toteutettua. Onkin ennemmin kyseenalaista onko kärsimysnäytelmän lähtökohta ollut väärä – mutta onko meillä oikeutta kyseenalaistaa teoksen premissejä näin, vai pitääkö meidän arvioida se sen omilla ehdoilla?"

#teoksella ei voi olla väärää lähtökohtaa sano minun sanoneen #< minä kiirastulessa