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great Danish poet, Jens Peter Jacobsen.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet



The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c. 1330). Though the geographer has long been renowned for the accuracy of his nautical maps of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this long-lost portolan chart is particu... See more
M. E. Rothwell on Substack
Lowell captured Dante’s appeal to readers—Belle included—with his dictum that the poet was “part of the soul’s resources in time of trouble.”
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
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