Costume design for the allegorical figure of music, one of many figures from the 1585 Winter tournaments for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
(Pen, blue wash on white paper, Galleria degli Uffizi)
By Giuseppe Arcimboldo who died #onthisday in 1593.
#OnThisDay in #history - Eva de la Gardie was born in 1724 in #Sweden - born to a powerful noble family, Eva married a count at age 16. She was able to pursue her interest in agronomy to its fullest and through that interest helped to feed people during famine. She discovered an efficient way of making flour and alcohol from potatoes. She also made soaps and makeup from potatoes. Eva earned a spot in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the first female full member. #OTD#histodons@histodons
Here's sonnets 18 and 19 in a reconstruction of early 17th century London pronunciation. Note the rhyme of "blood"/"brood", and the preserved /æ:/ under secondary stress in "temperate".
I included readings in my normal accent for comparison.
Gramsch, Robert, Das Reich als Netzwerk der Fürsten: politische Strukturen unter dem Doppelkönigtum Friedrichs II. und Heinrichs (VII.) 1225 - 1235 (Mittelalter-Forschungen 40), Ostfildern 2013.
The list of exciting forthcoming books keeps growing! "Focusing on previously neglected cultural expressions of colonial-period Korean socialism such as Marxist philosophy, Marxist historiography, and travelogues by socialist writers, The Red Decades reveals Marxian socialism as a cultural phenomenon of colonial-age Korea...[]...this text offers a rich, nuanced description of the microcosm of Korean Communism..."
On this day in 1723, Isaac Meredith died aged 27. The Journals show a drawing of the coat of arms that was carved on his gravestone at Comber, Co. Down: https://bit.ly/mere1723