Eduardo Fernández Guerrero
@ApocalypsisNova
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early modern historian working on prophecies, belief and reading practices | EUI/CSIC PhD | «Tὸ ‘χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά’ δοκῶ μοι εἰδέναι».
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Oh but they are. Much more than what you call hordes in a perfect display of racism. Jog on mate.
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Spending my last days in Florence before defending my thesis in a Dominican convent where the WiFi password is Savonarola.
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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is offering two 6-month fellowships for graduate students based at Asian, African or Lat-Am institutions to prepare & publish their first single-authored research paper in English.
Deadline: February 15
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Elated to say I successfully defended my PhD on the Apocalypsis Nova (🎉) and the early modern entanglements of prophecy, theology and sacred history!
A truly wonderful discussion between disciplines and academic traditions: so many divides to bridge, so much to do!
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Drawings from the Inquisition prison cells of Palermo signed by 23 yo Cornish sailor John Andrews from Padstow ("Ioan Andres of Pasta"), captured by a Northern African galley, forced to convert to Islam only to return to Christianity and be sentenced by the Inq. as Protestant.
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A small list of yearly fellowships & postdocs (focus on early modern hist.) that I put together a while ago. After sharing it around I thought some here could find it useful too.
Disclaimer: at this point it's a bit old, so take it cum grano salis.
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Historians, what do you wish you had known before your first trip to an archive or library?
I've been asked to participate in a small departmental workshop on the matter for 1st year PhDs and I am really curious about other perspectives on working with sources, libraries, etc.
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I'm compiling a guide titled "How to find a manuscript in Italy", focusing on inventories & databases: so far I have mentioned Manus, NBM, Cataloghi Storici, CODEX, Mazzatinti's inventories, Kristeller's Iter, BAV & a handful of private archives. What should I add? Thanks a lot!
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🎉Delighted to announce that I have received a major grant from
@BibSoc
to work on the book history of the Apocalypsis Nova through a codicological/material description of all surviving copies.
📷rare illuminated copy by Willem van Lieshout, a Dutch scribe working in Rome...
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Today a new chapter begins, as I arrive to
@IEG_Mainz
to finish(!) my dissertation (and learn German along the way, hoffentlich!). Very excited for the library, so rich in religious history, and the exchange with my fellow early modernists here! 📚
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This is an appreciation tweet for the "Italian Administrative Hands 1550-1700"
@Transkribus
model developed by
@rcmidura
@JakeDyble
Antonio Iodice and
@SaraMansutti
. Used as the base model with a bit of training (just four pages!) from my own ms. the result is astonishing!
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I have never been at a more beautiful, more underfunded and frustratingly poorly catalogued archive than this.
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Great news from Florence! The Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento will receive the library of Cesare Vasoli, key figure in the study of Italian Renaissance. A presentation will take place in autumn to celebrate Vasoli's scholarship and welcome the arrival of his books.
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Here is the first draft! "How to find a manuscript in Italy" (n.b. in Latin script). More than happy to have your feedback and add some more resources!
I'm compiling a guide titled "How to find a manuscript in Italy", focusing on inventories & databases: so far I have mentioned Manus, NBM, Cataloghi Storici, CODEX, Mazzatinti's inventories, Kristeller's Iter, BAV & a handful of private archives. What should I add? Thanks a lot!
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Hello world! I'll be tweeting of all things manuscript, prophetic or otherwise related to my PhD project on the Apocalypsis Nova, an amazing blend of theology and revelation that became a key text for the intellectual and religious history of early modern Europe. See you around!
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An arguably unrivalled bibliography of Medieval religious texts from Iberia is finally online!
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First time teaching a whole masters course, and couldn't have been any luckier with the location or the students.
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Went up a mountain, finished my dissertation.
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Diagram of magic and divination practices in vaguely human shape, from a copy of Lope de Barrientos' "Tratado de la adivinanza"
📷BNE, MSS/8113,
@PPhiloBiblon
BETA manid 3339
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If you charge PhD students €145 to attend a conference and also have no available online option for those who cannot travel to the conference venue, are you really "connecting academics"?
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🎉It's confirmed! Next October I'll be teaching my first course, a whole MA module at
@unipv
on "Churches and theologies in the (early) modern period"! In Italian! Instead of a descriptive listing, I'll be focusing on time, teleologies, reform and renewal. So excited!
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I will never understand the archives that keep their catalogues and finding aids offline. Hours and hours of archivists' work so that 12 people a day can check them in old computers with the most unpractical search engines...
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Often we talk about the known copies of a text (either print or manuscript) to discuss its social and intellectual life, from its circulation to its use by readers. But I often think that there is almost a survivor bias in this: what about the lost ones? (1/-)
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I have used ChatGPT to (re)write a script that downloads digitized manuscripts/books when provided with a list of URLs to each of the pages. Useful for libraries that do not provide download options for entire mss/books. I reccomend...
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I don't know who first told me of it but
@ornamentobooks
is a remarkable tool. Despite the low quality and the different orientation of the picture, it still did a phenomenal job locating it in Barcelonese books from the 1630's. Amazing!
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Spring has come and the digital library of the Royal Library of El Escorial is in full bloom, loaded with freshly digitised mss like this one: perhaps the earliest witness of the Apocalypsis Nova (Northern Italy, ca. 1505) and perhaps Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's own copy.
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First time speaking in French («De quoi est-ce qu'on parle quand on parle des prophéties?». Autour du discours prophétique") for this workshop, my first in the covid era. Send prayers, prophecies or resources for learning French pronunciation properly.
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Turns out the Archivio di Stato in Milan is more fun than I expected
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Turns out that inquisitorial trials from the Florentine tribunal are accessible online (in a delightfully vintage website, by the way)*
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* i.e. some of them, 1578-1620; some others are here in Brussels, Arch. Gén. Royaume, Arch. Ecclés. 19283ter. Absurd.
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Deeply mesmerized by the alluvione photographs by Balthazar Korab, including thousands of pages set to dry in Santa Maria Novella.
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I did it! I installed 1995 CD version of Kristeller's Iter Italicum on my Windows 10 laptop! Ubi est, mors, victoria tua?
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Un poco loco esto de estudiar una iglesia en Historia del Arte durante bachillerato y que unos (!) años después tu traducción del testamento de doña Mayor esté allí expuesta junto al taqueado jaqués de San Martín de Frómista.
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For an island of its size, Madeira is really pulling its weight in terms of art collections. From Mughal cabinets and nanban crafts to Flemish paintings, Italian cabinets and Andalusian tiles. Museology wasn't good (except MASF) and many museums don't allow pictures but still!
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Some research library buy this so I can *finally* finish my piece on bottled spirits, Venitian inghistere, and relics, please.
Would you like to learn how to conjure a spirit into a crystal? How about prepare a dead man's head for incantation? We have the perfect book for you in our London sale:
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Just found out that Modena's Inquisitorial archive, sequestrated by the civil authorities at the time of its supression, survived fairly well. Plenty of processi and materials on its Jewish community. Plus, there's a newly digitised inv. (+250 pp) with interesting descriptions.
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People (esp. from Anglophone countries) complaining about having to know Latin to do things in their scholarly practice (because it's "elitist") remind me of those empoverished workers who complain about fellow workers striking, getting a better pay, etc... 1/2
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Next Tuesday Nov 16th I'll be in London presenting (among other colleagues) some of the work I have carried out with the generous support of the
@BibSoc
. Genuinely excited/nervous, particularly so because it will be streamed and recorded! More info & link:
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Things you gotta love about Italian research libraries:
- the "schedone", i.e. a list of every scholar who has ever requested a given manuscript.
- the penmanship
- their disregard for GDPR
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Am I comparing Mayan prophecies and calendrical concerns from Chilam Balaam books with Joachim of Fiore's biblical exegesis? Yes.
Do I need to go to sleep? Also yes.
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Seemingly a rejected neologism and a hapax : calvinilogorum > calvinistarum
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Fresh off the press, the book by Giovanna Murano on Pico's library!
La biblioteca arabo-ebraica di Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2022 (Studi e Testi, 550).
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@EmmKaGaertner
@JPeterBurger
Without digging too far, I'd say *heavily* influenced by Anne Balogh's and Silvia Molinari's work (esp. the signature and overall style?). Or the other way around, and these famous artists are copying the work of Lev?
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Trying to find one single name in here because a scholar hinted at something important (Rudolf II being obsessed with one book and searching for it in Milan) without transcribing anything or providing any further reference. Again, please cite/transcribe your sources.
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I've got to admit that the Palazzo del Santo Uffizio is a beautiful place to work at. Especially since I found out there is a coffee machine available for researchers. ☕
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A peak into the workflow of Anastasio da Brescia, a Cassinese Benedictine monk working for the Congregation of the Index as a consultant. Because I just realised this Roman ms. was actually his copy of the Apocalypsis Nova.
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First time running into Malakhim script, first time at the Laurenziana and first time eating at Gozzi. ✅✅✅
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As exquisitely painful as it may be to come back to Florence after living here three years, it still is as gorgeous of a city as it was when I left.
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Hard to say what's prettier, the narrow streets leading to the Martinus-Bibliothek in Mainz, the views from the reading room to the Dom and the Augustinerkirche or the reading room itself.
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Really happy to be back in Madrid with a grant from the
@casadevelazquez
, but even happier to have their library just below my room!
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Really looking forward to this book coming out next month!
Just received this 👇 important new book in the mail – congratulations to Samantha Kelly! It is a ground-breaking study of Ethiopian pilgrims in Rome, especially at Santo Stefano, during the sixteenth century.
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Hot off the press, the book by D. Scotto on Juan de Segovia, his translation of the Qur'an, and the conversion of Muslims in 15th c. Europe, inaugurating the new series of interreligious studies by
@Villa_Vigoni
.
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The (double) edition of Leo Africanus' Africa by Andrea Donnini is finally out in 3 volumes, editing the text of both Ramusio's printed version and the ms. V.E. 953 from the BNVE in Rome. Just a pity that RR are not releasing an ebook version!
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@Marphurius
@RareBookLibAntw
@mssprovenance
@snsf_ch
@true_mxp
N.b.: the funding scheme is "Open Access Books". You, a scholar, create your publishing house, then you get grants for open access publishing, and then you pay your publishing house an exorbitant fee for the open access publication. Pretty solid, if you ask me.
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Randomly running into the Biblioteca Rilliana today and already making plans to come back to it.
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Historians of art, I'm looking for tips! Where could I read about the potential textual source for this type of Annunciation (i.e. with three angels)? I have tried Réau's Iconographie, but I know little else. Thank you!
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The logic behind it seems to be the same "if I couldn't do it and others could, it wasn't my fault, it's just them".
1) Latin isn't just a private school lang., the world doesn't revolve around your particular education system.
2) You can self-teach yourself languages.
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Waiting for news on a fellowship I applied for that requires fellows to move to Naples.
It's Oct 29 and new fellows are supposed to be there on Nov 21.
I called. Applications continue to be, like Schrödinger's cat, both rejected & accepted until further notice (further when?!)
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Printed book experts, would you say that these are the same? And bonus question: being from Paris ca. 1522, how reliable are initials like these in the identification of a printer? As always, thanks a lot!
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New Year's eve in Seville. Pestiños, oranges, and sun.
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Just spent (virtual) hours with this annotated incunable of Georgius de Hungaria's Tractatus, containing (among other accounts of Ottoman life & institutions) perhaps the first printed example of Ottoman Turkish in Latin alphabet, two poems by sufi poet Yunus Emre.
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Time to say goodbye to
@IEG_Mainz
, my academic home for the last seven months, and to the academic family of mentors and friends here! I'll miss too many things and people to list - including my wall for comparing manuscripts and the baking marathons, vere utile dulci miscuimus.
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Somewhere in here there is a book I need and all the information I have is I don't need to look in one shelf.
17 to go.
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One for the fragmentologists out there! Flyleaves of Rome, Archivium Generale Ordinis Fratrum Minorum, ms. A18, containing (seemingly) a fragment of Matthew 3 in Greek (the ms. is, of course, a copy of the Apocalypsis Nova)
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Working at the archive while you hear children playing outside makes work weirdly, rewarding. Considering this and the coffee, the Archivio di Stato di Napoli might be my new favourite Archivio di Stato.
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Magliabecchian jokes:
'Un tedesco confessandosi (aiunt) dicesse "Florentinavi". Rispose il confessoro: "Tedescasti, Bestia"'
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So this came out this January:
John Gagné, Milan Undone: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021)
A fresh cultural history of Sforza/French Milan , with a strong social focus.
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Unassuming doors to great libraries: Toledo's Biblioteca Capitular.
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Another day without a full and searchable PDF version of the 114 volumes of the "Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia" and one more to the list of Humanity's collective failures.
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It was great to take part in
#CLSinfraTraining
school this week. Looking forward to the next one in Vienna!
Eduardo Fernández- @ApocalypsisNova -talks to us about how the
#ClsInfraTraining
School Madrid 🇪🇸 helps explore and reveal layers of intervention in the circulation of prophecies. 🙏📚
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Why do people say "first-gen academic" when they mean "working class"?
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Currently considering heading back to the monastery where this ms. is in Padova and staying there for a while until I can read this. When lucky, I get 3-4 words per line. Exceptionally, even 5. Sometimes just 2.
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Illustrations for pseudo-Gioacchino's Vaticinia de Pontificibus (Brit. Lib., ms. Harley 1340 (Florence ca. 1420-1450). Note the hands floating above the city (Florence?) symbolising peace.
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Loving this conversation in the margins of Florence, BNCF, ms. Magl. XXXV 177:
"See here on Scoto"
"You don't like this, but what's your problem with Scoto being a saint?"
"It doesn't bother me if Scoto is a saint, but..."
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Filippo Neri's funerary mask and books got me thinking: is it common to find a saint's personally used books as relics? It's definitely the first time I see that.
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Since we are talking Napoleon, a napoleonic marginal note of the Ap. N.
An anonymous reader of Bologna, Bib. Archiginnasio ms. A 155 read the Renaissance post-factum prophecy regarding the French descent into Italy led by Charles VIII & interpreted it as forecasting Napoleon.
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So turns out that Santorini has a rich Catholic Diocesan Archive with docs in Ottoman Turkish, Italian, Latin and Greek spanning from the late 16th c., many of which are exhibited at the Megaro Gyzi museum, a 17th c. former Venitian aristocrat manor in Fira.
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Last summer I wrote a piece on an early modern translation, between manuscript and print, which involves (to some extent) Suleiman I, Hadrian VI, and a Venetian priest claiming to be the descendant of a Byzantine emperor. But it won’t appear until late 2021 so here is a summary.
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A Florentine hotel manager just replied to my concerns about massive tourism in the city this week with a nonchalant "you know how we are, still guelfi e ghibellini, what's good for half of us [ie. tourist industry] is bad for the other half".
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Yesterday, the Archivio Apostolico (formerly Archivio Segreto) started accepting reservations for 2022!
Book responsibly!
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Friendly reminder that if searching inside a book from google books drives you crazy because of the terrible ocr, you can download the books as epub & search them using an indexer that allows for fuzzy searches like DTSearch (shoutout to
@DaniSandu7
who converted me to indexers)
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Some new, good stuff for medieval heresy people. Super rich.
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Palermo being Palermo.
#Divulgo
la « Camera delle meraviglie » di Palermo, scoperta casualmente nel 2003 sotto quattro strati di intonaco in un appartamento privato del centro storico.
Interamente dipinta di blu a metà Ottocento, è arricchita da decori e scritte argentate dal sapore arabeggiante.
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A couple of months ago, one of my favourite poets, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, died. I often talked about him to friends but many didn't speak Spanish and I never found translations of his poems. When he passed I started trying to translate one and now I finally did it.
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I keep forgetting how amazing of a museum Villa Borghese is, how much I like Saint Jerome and how crazy good Raphael can be.
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Printing blocks wrapped in printing waste, “an archive within the archive"
Exciting!
@WilsonLibUNC
just acquired its 9 millionth volume: a collection of approximately 900 woodcut printing blocks from the Propaganda Fide press
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Transcribing a letter from fervent reader of the Ap. N., and seeing a research rabbit hole open before me: here he discusses a prophetic painting as a source for the beliefs he was imprisoned for:
"Molte et forti congetture ho allegato [...] che quella pittura sia da Dio"
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Another paper I have really liked, Nancy Farriss and Yucatec Mayan ideas about time. For cultures with a cyclical conception of time, the past is a prophecy. For those with a linear one, it's a prologue. Never was so much about prophecy and time said in so few words.
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Magliabecchi's bust always shocks me, aptly placed as it is, whenever I go use some of those manuscripts that were once his. Brutto ma buono, like the Prato sweets; "ipse museum inambulans et viva quaedam bibliotheca".
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Italian academia is to European academia what Italian politics are to European politics.
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A wish for
@internetarchive
(although maybe it doesn't make sense with the lawsuit going on): it would be cool to have a centralised donation service so patrons could collectively acquire a book and donate it to you for scanning so that it would be available for digital lending.
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My first dip into DH! Really looking forward to learn from the people at
@UNEDMadrid
and explore what distant, diachronic reading of Christian prophecies reveals. (Also, send me all early modern prophecies you have ever laid eyes on! 👀)
Another
#ClsInfraTraining
School graduate, 🎓⚡️
@ApocalypsisNova
⚡️And another interview here:
@EUI_EU
@UNEDMadrid
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Browsing Granada's capitular archive catalogue: on the offense commited by the archbishopric of Granada in executing a black person in 1532; royal provisions on gitanos, same year; the exchange of 100 Christian prisoners for 500 Muslim prisoners and 1000 Arabic books in 1690...
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Cornish countryside is beautiful. That's the tweet.
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Serious question: why doesn't
@bibliovaticana
digitize existing microfilms of manuscripts that are unavailable due to poor condition? Wouldn't it make more sense to prioritize those over digitizations of available mss?
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