Marco

Giotto, The Arrest of Christ, c. 1305 Scrovegni Chapel, Padua

«Di', chi è colui a cui si riferisce?»

The Seven Sisters Mountain Range by Peder Balke

@venturetwins sad story

All the smartest people I know have LLM psychosis now

The Claude code situation feels surreal

fuggite dalla mediocrità.

Today is Dantedì: Italy celebrates Dante Alighieri, the Father of the Italian language. wantedinrome.com/news/dantedi-i…

Avevo sempre snobbato con presunzione questa prima opera di Tolkien. Un grave errore.

«Con le sue parole fa male a se stesso e agli altri; chi parla è un uomo che soffre. Non uno scrittore impegnato. Un poeta» — Milan Kundera Curzio Malaparte, "La pelle".

Solidarietà alla dottoressa Imparato.

Mark Antony and Caesar's Body

Ultimo appuntamento stagionale. Domenica

15 marzo 44 a.C. - Idi di Marzo

@_VVSVS Thank you

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A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

Presentation of the Pandects to the Emperor Justinian - Joseph Wilhelm Knackfuss, 1891

«Sebbene nulla potesse ormai meravigliare, la realtà evidente ha sempre in sé qualcosa che scuote». Fedor Dostoevskij, I demoni

@bmontxna Amazing Amalfi. Try the dish scialatielli ai frutti di mare 💯💯

just pay the amalfi coast tourist taxes bro

John Martin - "Macbeth" (1820)

@bmontxna Go to the Uffizi. They're worth it

chatgpt really cooked when it helped me with my travel itinerary and told me I needed to go here once I arrived in florence at 11pm no matter how tired I am.