World Building and Woolgathering

Orlando Furioso As referenced previously , I have been reading  Orlando Furioso , the work of Ariosto. In some ways, actually saying comment...

I've been reading Orlando Furioso , the epic poem of Ludovico Ariosto.   Lacking or ignoring the many heroic poems of the early Middles ...

The press is one of the great movers of the new age. If you are going to spread ideas or report on a new discovery or promulgate a new law,...

I acquired a book called North Russian Architecture in a give-away a few months back. A small item, pages of heavy high-quality paper, a wo...

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian , 1951 (trans. into English 1954 by the author and Grace Frick) Historical fiction. Read in light o...

You must never call it a necropolis, for it is no such thing. It is merely the city where the dead dwell. No memorials, no tombs, no graveya...