#veronese legend

[briefbestiary]

The baleful bisso galeto may be slain through mirror, a rooster's crow, and through mortal combat with a weasel. A weasel, in particular, is capable of killing the creature, however the valiant creature will also perish in kind.

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[hzaidan]

11 Works, Artists' Interpretations of Hellenic legends, The Rape of Deianira, with footnotes #188

Deianira, Deïanira was a Calydonian princess in Greek mythology whose name translated as "man-destroyer" or "destroyer of her husband". She was the wife of Heracles and, in late Classical accounts, his unwitting murderer, killing him with the poisoned Shirt of Nessus. She is the main character in Sophocles' play Women of Trachis…

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[rageprufrock]

What’s your favorite scene from Ravenous? Give us the DVD commentary for that scene!

This is actually a fun one to answer because it's not so much a scene but a realization I was hoping that everybody would get to have!

This story is older, but just in case you don't want to have the narrative trick spoiled:

So the whole deal with the story is that we're looking at the truth distorted through so many different lenses: from the distance of time, through the eyes of Clarice, from the writing of Freddie Lounds, through the legend of Will Graham, in the context of the mythos of Hannibal in post-revelation society.

There's fundamentally no way to ever know the truth of the thing, and so all of Ravenous is just a dissertation on what we can imagine and what we can divine from what remains.

The pivot in the story is that in addition to all of that, we're not in the timeline the Freddie Lounds excerpts imply we are, and it's not until we're deep into the narrative that we get this moment:

Morning Edition is a blur in the background. Clarice listens to them talk about the Republican primary, gets an update on the Rio Olympics, she loses some time to the drumming of the asphalt under the car wheels, and when she comes back, it's because Freddie Lounds is on the radio.

"Generally speaking, there are two types of serial killers: organized and disorganized," she's saying. "The designations explain themselves, mostly. And in the case of Buffalo Bill, we're definitely seeing an organized criminal. Catherine Martin is his sixth abduction, and may become his sixth victim, so we know he's planning this carefully, meticulously, or else the BAU would have him."

"That's the Behavioral Analysis Unit for the FBI, correct?" the host asks.

"Exactly. They specialize in this type of crime, and you know — despite my occasionally rocky history of them — they are the very best at what they do," Freddie says.

Clarice passes under a green sign, I-495 / BALTIMORE.

"You write about some of it," the host prompts, "your work with the FBI and the BAU on the case of Hannibal the Cannibal in your book, Craving."

"There's a lot to write about when it comes to Hannibal Lecter," Freddie laughs. "Um, but even beyond him, you know, Craving's really about an extraordinary string of crimes that occurred during Lecter's late, active period — I'm actually in the process of outlining a sequel, Ravenous, that will focus more on his particular relationship with law enforcement."

And this is the moment when the narrative clarifies finally that the book we have been reading in between snatches of narrative with Clarice is not, in fact, published yet, which means that we are earlier in the timeline than we think and that shit is about to get real.

"When you say law enforcement, you mean Special Agent Will Graham?"

"He's widely believed to be Lecter's last known victim before he escaped the country," Freddie agrees. "And you know, if Lecter hadn't retained his taste for extraordinarily elaborate crimes, he'd still be at large. The only reason the Florentine police even knew how or to look for him was that he'd arranged a body like a recreation of Paolo Veronese's Scorn — it's part of a group of works called Four Allegories on Love."

The host shoots back, "Bad breakup?"

"Not an entirely inappropriate guess, given how Lecter handled splitting with Graham," Freddie quips. "But the victim may just as likely have taken the last bottle of truffle oil."

This was really fun to write but also a tightwire act, to give away enough but not too much the whole way until we hit this scene, and I could pull the ripcord on the plot.

#ask meme

[miniaturemoonheart]

THE WITCH STONES

If you find a stone with a hole in it, know that it is a "witch stone".

The pierced stones are not simple stones...

In many traditions they have an esoteric and magical meaning.

Even in Italy there are many popular beliefs about the so-called “ witch stones. According to some Nordic cultures, pierced stones are a gift that nature wishes to give to those who find them.

In Europe this cult dates back to the Celts, who considered the Circle a sacred symbol within which the human spiritual evolution capable of giving harmony with the Universe took place. For this, the small hole found on the witch stones is a very special feature.

Witch stones, drilled from side to side, are a symbol to be worshipped, a gift of nature, or of the gods.

The stones are pierced in a completely natural way, thanks to the effect of the air, water, animals, and for this reason they represent nature and can bring luck.

Also, according to tradition, they have real magical powers: healing powers, protection from curses, witches and diseases. It was said that they could induce sleep and ward off nightmares.

Another ability associated with witch stones is to open windows on the world of invisible spirits like the little people.

Legend has it that if you look through the hole in the stone, you can see fairies, gnomes, elves and goblins.

They have a particular bond with female deities, as they are auspicious for fertility and therefore favor births.

In Italy witch stones are considered very powerful talismans. In the Veronese countryside they indicate protection of the house and livestock, in the Treviso countryside they indicate personal protection. In Rocca Pietore (province of Belluno) they are used to ward off unevolved spirits; in Mantova they are said to bring benefits for fertility. In Friuli they are used to meet the fairies.

So, when you walk in the woods, in the countryside or in the rivers, take a good look at what nature has to offer you and always remember that witch stones can bring you so much luck.

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[ellyllonselegantemporium]

THE WITCH STONES

If you find a stone with a hole in it, know that it is a "witch stone".

The pierced stones are not simple stones...

In many traditions they have an esoteric and magical meaning.

Even in Italy there are many popular beliefs about the so-called “ witch stones. According to some Nordic cultures, pierced stones are a gift that nature wishes to give to those who find them.

In Europe this cult dates back to the Celts, who considered the Circle a sacred symbol within which the human spiritual evolution capable of giving harmony with the Universe took place. For this, the small hole found on the witch stones is a very special feature.

Witch stones, drilled from side to side, are a symbol to be worshipped, a gift of nature, or of the gods.

The stones are pierced in a completely natural way, thanks to the effect of the air, water, animals, and for this reason they represent nature and can bring luck.

Also, according to tradition, they have real magical powers: healing powers, protection from curses, witches and diseases. It was said that they could induce sleep and ward off nightmares.

Another ability associated with witch stones is to open windows on the world of invisible spirits like the little people.

Legend has it that if you look through the hole in the stone, you can see fairies, gnomes, elves and goblins.

They have a particular bond with female deities, as they are auspicious for fertility and therefore favor births.

In Italy witch stones are considered very powerful talismans. In the Veronese countryside they indicate protection of the house and livestock, in the Treviso countryside they indicate personal protection. In Rocca Pietore (province of Belluno) they are used to ward off unevolved spirits; in Mantova they are said to bring benefits for fertility. In Friuli they are used to meet the fairies.

So, when you walk in the woods, in the countryside or in the rivers, take a good look at what nature has to offer you and always remember that witch stones can bring you so much luck.

Credit To The Owner: Pietre: Bosco e Magia

[sayitaliano]

Sayitaliano Random Italian Answering - Question n.3, part 2:  “Tell us about some Italian spooky urban legends” 

(These are all hotels located in former castles, if you hear me call them castles and not hotels, that’s why)

Sapevate che in Italia ci sono almeno tre alberghi infestati dai fantasmi? Ce n’è uno, per esempio, a Roma, che ospita la tomba di Nerone. È un hotel che ha ospitato anche Papa Pio VII e questi, durante importanti festeggiamenti, fece costruire una mongolfiera che si ruppe e andò a cadere sulla tomba di Nerone. Da allora sembra che l’imperatore Nerone sia molto arrabbiato e spesso giri per le stanze insieme al fantasma di un alchimista che morì nella torre del castello colpito da un fulmine. Un altro albergo infestato invece si trova a Firenze. Pochi anni fa è stato immortalato un fantasma con una macchina fotografica. Si dice che spesso ci siano dei bambini che corrono e saltano da una sala all’altra, ma anche una donna seduta sulla sedia che lavora a maglia. Ed anche lo spettro di una donna delle pulizie. A Verona c’è un terzo castello dove sembra ci siano tanti fantasmi. È si trova nel cuore della pianura veronese, ed è un castello costruito nel XIV secolo da Guglielmo Bevilacqua. Nel 1848 fu messo a ferro e fuoco, liberando così le ceneri del Bevilacqua che erano sepolte qui (lì!). Da quel giorno il padrone di casa, o meglio, lo spirito del padrone di casa, si aggira tra le mura della fortezza per difenderla dagli estranei, e sembra che la sua voce sia udibile tra gli alberi nel giardino pensile. (Avete) Paura? O avete voglia di venire a visitare queste zone?

ENG: Did you know that in Italy there are at least three hotels haunted by ghosts? There’s one, for example, in Rome, that hosts Nero’s grave. It’s an hotel that hosted also the Pope Pio VII and he, during some important celebrations, had someone building a hot-air balloon that broke and fell on Nero’s grave. Since then, it seems that the emperor Nero has been really angry and often takes walks in the hotel’s rooms with the gost of an alchemist that died in the castle’s tower hit by a lightning. Another infested hotel is in Florence, instead. A few years ago a ghost has been photographed with a camera. Some say that usually there are (ghosts of) kids running and jumping from a room to another, but also a woman sitting on a chair knitting. And also the ghost of a maid.  In Verona there’s a third castle where it seems there are lots of ghosts. It’s located in the center of the veronese’s plain, and it’s a castle built in the XIV century by Guglielmo Bevilacqua. In the 1848 has been devastated, freeing Bevilacqua’s ashes that were buried there. Since that day the host, or better, the spirit of the host, roams among the walls of his fortress to defend it from the strangers, and it seems that his voice can be heard among the trees in the roof garden. Are you scared? Or would you like to come visit these places?

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[storiesofanitaliangirl]

Watch this video to see the wonders of my country. It is a video of Italy for Italy itself and for all those who are fond of this country.

The sentences are taken from the book "Viaggio in Italia" by Guido Piovene. The voice is by Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino.

I'll translate as best I can what's said in the video:

Some beauties reach outside Italy to a more extreme degree. Immense rivers, immense lakes, forests, glaciers, plains, luxurious blooms, dramatic cliffs. The specialty of Italy is that all these different and contrasting beauties that unfold one by one on the earth's surface are represented in a compendium that like a prism, reflects in short space in its many faces all the rest of the world. It would seem that a capricious divinity, after having shattered the world, has gathered here, choosing from all sides, shiny fragments. In Italy, however, many heterogeneous elements are dosed, balanced, harmonized together with the same care with which an artist harmonizes the different influences and notes from the real world. Nature itself was born as a work of art and seems to obey a rule of artistic composition, it is already composed in landscape. The long work of man has made this association of art and nature even closer, and here I mean by art everything that man has done, from a cathedral to a cultivation. A nature that is already art itself and the art combined with the human work do not stand out in Italy. Art is also landscape, everywhere. The Italian landscape has been reproduced by so many artists that it is now impossible for us to separate what we see with our eyes and theirs. The Venetian countryside is filled with many paintings by Titian or Veronese. The Tuscan countryside is made up of many Paolo Uccello or Piero della Francesca. There is no space in Italy that man has not already acquired and introduced into his memories before he has even seen it. There is no anonymous high ground, everything is humanized, everything has a name, and the name is linked to a historical event, to a legend, to a myth, to this is due if the Italian people are soaked in art even more than the other European peoples all soaked in art. The street and the Italian square are theaters and all actors of themselves.

#travellerlovesitaly

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[micro961]

Sparami  è il nuovo singolo di Adriana Ft. Inoki

Adriana torna con un nuovo brano

Dopo l’uscita di “Baby Please” prodotta da Shocca, “Niente di me” prodotta da Low Kidd, “Dentro” con Yazee e Miryam Ayaba e altre svariate collaborazioni, Adriana torna con un nuovo singolo in feat con l’intramontabile Inoki, prodotta da Jenny e Plagio.

Adriana e Inoki si incontrano a metà strada in un viaggio dalle atmosfere sospese, due personalità, all'apparenza distanti, si inseguono tra domande e decisioni. "Sparami" è la sicurezza dietro la provocazione, è l'affrontare le proprie sfide senza mai abbassare lo sguardo.

ADRIANA Adriana è un artista Veronese, cantautrice, coreografa, ballerina. Gravita nel mondo dello spettacolo da quando ha 18 anni, lavorando per grossi brand quali Adidas, Diadora, Puma, Waves Audio... e lavorando come ballerina a diverse produzioni televisive.

Nel 2019 entra a far parte del roster di “Coca-Cola Future Legend”, da lì inizia un susseguirsi di esperienze vincendo concorsi come Amnesty International (Voci per la Libertà), Honiro Ent Audition, Ama Music Festival, Is Me di Aw Lab, dando inizio ad una serie di collaborazioni. Tra i nomi di spicco abbiamo Dj Shocca aka RocBeats, uno dei producer pionieri dell’Hip Hop italiano che produrrà il singolo “Baby Please” uscito su Real Talk; a seguire con Low Kidd, collettivo Machete, per la produzione di “Niente di Me”; con Yazee e Miriam Ayaba per il singolo “Dentro”.
Queste collaborazioni la portano ad avere credibilità in tutta la penisola, collaborando con altri artisti, per progetti personali e non.

Nata nel 1995 da papà della Guinea- Bissau e mamma italiana vive sin da piccola una realtà multietnica, dove il diverso non è un  qualcosa da temere, bensì da scoprire.
Proprio questa sua visione del mondo l’ha spinta a collaborare fin da subito con artisti differenti. Tutte le uscite sono curate da Adriana, a partire dalla scelta della direzione musicale fino alla parte visual con foto e video. Nell’estate 2021 ha la possibilità di realizzare un tour per il nord Italia con la formazione voce, dj e chitarra.
I progetti aperti sono di diversa natura, Adriana è una stacanovista e non ha paura di nulla.

INOKI Quante volte puoi tornare prima che smettano di crederti? Quante volte puoi dire di aver cominciato un nuovo  viaggio mentre la strada resta la stessa? Qualcuno, nel caso di Inoki, potrebbe rispondere: una di troppo. Ecco perché Fabiano Ballarin, classe 1979, non è ripartito dalle parole se non da quelle che si incastrano sul beat. Da qui ha ricominciato, per un risultato inatteso che - per una volta, forse la prima - apre a uno scenario diverso da quanto visto finora, a una strada mai intrapresa.

A gennaio 2021 pubblica l’album “MEDIOEGO”, che segna il suo ingresso nel roster di Asian Fake, e che vede la collaborazione di grandi artisti e produttori, mettendo diverse generazioni a confronto. A questo segue il suo repack, “NUOVO  MEDIOEGO”, uscito a novembre dello stesso anno e arricchito da nuove partecipazioni del panorama musicale italiano e internazionale.

[bronzioni]

Bronze Marble Sculpture Moses Michelangelo Signed Figure Art Statue This Bronze Sculpture Depicts The Biblical Figure Moses, Part Of The Tomb Of Pope Julius Ii Originally Created By Michelangelo. This Sculpture Has Great Detail And Shows Moses With A Muscular Body, Holding The Ten Commandments. This Sculpture Was Cast Using The Lost Wax Method It Has A Brown Patina And Is Mounted On A Marble Base. Originally This Sculpture Of Moses Was Intended For St. Peter'S Basilica, "Moses" And The Tomb Were Instead Placed In The Minor Church Of San Pietro In Vincoli On The Esquiline In Rome After The Pope'S Death. This Church Was Patronized By The Della Rovere Family From Which Julius Came, And He Had Been Titular Cardinal There. The Statue Depicts Moses With Horns On His Head. This Is Believed To Be Because Of A Mistranslation Of Exodus 34:29-35 By St Jerome. Moses Is Actually Described As Having "Rays Of The Skin Of His Face", Which Jerome In The Vulgate Had Translated As "Horns. The Mistake In Translation Is Possible Because The Wordage Can Mean Either "Radiated (Light)" Or "Grew Horns". Michelangelo Felt That This Was His Most Life-Like Creation. Legend Has It That Upon Its Completion He Struck The Right Knee Commanding, "Now Speak!" As He Felt That Life Was The Only Thing Left Inside The Marble. There Is A Scar On The Knee Thought To Be The Mark Of Michelangelo'S Hammer. This Is A Reproduction Of MichelangeloS Moses And Is Signed By The Artist Veronese....Condition:This Sculpture Is In A Very Good Condition. Bronze Dimensions With Marble Base:Height 12" X Width 7" Marble Dimensions: 7" X 7 " . Height Without Base: 11 " Weight : 10 Lbs Inventory 63Y0103736 http://nemb.it/p/EFUvDLFuHh/tumblr

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[hzaidan]

11 Work, Artists' Interpretations of Hellenic legends, The Rape of Deianira, with footnotes #188

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[sixpenceee]

Philadelphia Experiment

via i09 | Keith Veronese

Popularized by the 1984 film, a bizarre low-budget sequel, and a 2012 Syfy channel movie, tales of the Philadelphia Experiment involves covert U.S. Navy operations that led to time travel, teleportation, and mangled flesh.

According to urban legends, two separate and completely different Philadelphia Experiments took place. Both, however, involved the same vessel, the USS Eldridge. What happened in each of these alleged experiments, and what evidence is there to support the rumors?

Two separate sets of bizarre events make up the "Philadelphia Experiment." Both revolve around a Navy Destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, with the events taking place on two separate days in the summer and fall of 1943.

In the first experiment, an alleged method of electrical field manipulation allowed the USS Eldridge to be rendered invisible on July 22, 1943 in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The second rumored experiment was the teleportation and small-scale time travel (with the ship sent a few seconds in the past) of the USS Eldridge from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to Norfolk, Virginia, on October 28, 1943.

Horrible tales of mangled seamen and sailors stuck within the metal of the USS Eldridge often accompany this experiment, with the USS Eldrige reappearing seconds later in the waters around Philadelphia. Recitation of the events surrounding the second Philadelphia Experiment often include a cargo and troop transport vessel, the SS Andrew Furuseth. The lore of the second experiment claims those on board the Andew Furuseth viewed the USS Eldridge and it's crew as they teleported into Norforlk momentarily before the ship returned to the waters of Philadelphia. 

Prior to the mid-1950s, no rumors of bizarre activity surrounded any teleportation or invisibility experiments in North America during the 1940s, let alone in the area surrounding Philadelphia.

Carl Meredith Allen, using the alias Carlos Miguel Allende, sent a series of letters to astronomer and writer Morris K. Jessup. Jessup authored several early UFO books including the mildly successful The Case For The UFO. Allen claimed to be on the SS Andrew Furuseth during the second experiment, witnessing the USS Eldridge emerge in the waters of Norfolk and quickly disappear into thin air.

Carl Allen supplied no proof to verify what he claimed to witness on October 28, 1943. He did win the mind of Morris Jessup, who began to champion Allen's view of the Philadelphia Experiment. Jessup, however, died four years after his first contact with Allen from an apparent suicide.

Moving a ship weighing several thousands tons leaves an inevitable paper trail. On the date of the Philadelphia "Invisibility" Experiment, July 22, 1943, the USS Eldridge had yet to be commissioned. The USS Eldridge spent the day of the alleged teleportation experiments, October 28, 1943, safely within a New York harbor, waiting to escort a naval convoy to Casablanca. The SS Andrew Norfolk spent October 28, 1943, sailing across the Atlantic Ocean en route to the Mediterranean port city of Oran, further discrediting Carl Allen's comments. 

And in the early 1940s, the Navy did conduct experiments to make naval vessels "invisible" in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyards, but in a different manner and with a completely different set of desired results.

In these experiments, researchers ran an electric current through hundreds of meters of electrical cable around the hull of a ship to see if they could make the ships "invisible" to underwater and surface mines. Germany deployed magnetic mines in naval theatres — mines that would latch on to the metal hull of ships as they came near. In theory, this system would make the ships invisible to the magnetic properties of the mines.

Sixty years later, we are left without a shred of credible evidence for the Philadelphia Experiment(s), yet rumors persist. If you are still unconvinced, think of the situation from a different viewpoint. No incident, regardless of the horrific nature, would stall development of teleportation technology if the military believed it feasible. Such a resource would be an invaluable front line weapon in war and the backbone of many commercial industries, yet decades later, teleportation is still caged within the realm of science fiction.

In 1951, the United States transferred the Eldrige to the country of Greece. Greece christened the ship the HS Leon, using the vessel for joint U.S. operations during the Cold War. The USS Eldridge met an unceremonious end, with the decommissioned ship sold to a Grecian firm as scrap after five decades of service.

In 1999, fifteen members of the USS Eldridge crew held a reunion in Atlantic City, with the veterans bemoaning the decades of questioning surrounding the vessel they served on.

#history

[romeo-and-juliet-sims]

House of Montecchi

Legend goes, that the Montecchi’s ancestors were simple weavers. Well, such rumours (even if spread by the Capuletti) were never disputed by members of the family. But money and clever investment founded their power position within Verona’s finest circles. The Bank of Montecchi is counted among the most renowned of Italy. Some of the most illustrious Veronese citizens owe money to them and the Montecchi know how to make use of that. Jewish conversos from Spain, Capuletti call them but their humble origins lay in the city of Verona. Rinaldo Montecchi often travelled to Rome and always came back with letters of high importance. The Pope made him his private banker and all the armies marching against the Emperor were paid with Montecchi gold. Only one reason for their feud with the Capuletti. But now Rinaldo Montecchi is gone and family’s business is managed by his wife Angiola (with assistance of his brother who also died recently).

Angiola Montecchi learned to never give up. Life wasn’t pleasant to this strong and independent woman. Parents died early, she grew up at a nunnery and her relatives never cared much for her. But then at a feast, she caught Rinaldo Montecchi’s attraction. He married her for love and she had his son Romeo before he died only months later. Since that that day Angiola managed the Bank on her own. Ludovico, her brother-in-law accepted her dominance and only acted if necessary. Her son Romeo is Angiola’s great hope for the future. But he doesn’t possess his mother’ strength andpassion for wealth and power.

Romeo would rather be a poet than a banker. As a young boy, a certain Pater Lorenzo awoke his interest for classical literature and art. But Lorenzo was dismissed from Montercchi’s service when Angiola decided her son should be trained in the art of the sword. Romeo never liked but he never objected. He is deeply melancholic character who’d rather read a book than court a lady. Nevertheless, he is desired by many and his mother is considering several matches. What Romeo seeks is true love but he’s sure he’ll always end up disappointed.

Benvolio, a cousin of Romeo, is close to him like a brother. In contrast to his cousin, Benvolio is joyful and outgoing. He loves extravagant festivities where he is wooed by several ladies. He never accepted an offer for uncertain reasons. Enjoying the company of other lads, Benvolio became a talented swordsman. The feud appears like a game to him.

Mercutio, born into a lesser branch of Verona’s ruling Della Scala family, came to the Montecchi household as a ward. He has been heard saying that the Montecchi were more like parents to him than his actual sires. A fierce and valiant knight, he is seen as the Montecchi’s equivalent to Tebaldo though he is more courteous. Mercutio and Benvolio are sworn brothers. They are very close. Too close, someone could say.

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[pamphletstoinspire]

Patron Saint of Physicians, headaches, and helper for crying children.

Saint Pantaleon

Saint Pantaleon (Greek: meaning "all-compassionate"), counted in the West among the late-medieval fourteen Holy Helpers and in the East as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletian persecution of 202 ad. Though there is evidence to suggest that a martyr named Pantaleon existed, the various stories told of his life and death are considered by some to be purely legendary.

Legends

According to the martyrologies, Pantaleon was the son of a rich pagan, Eustorgius of Nicomedia, and had been instructed in Christianity by his Christian mother, Saint Eubula; however, after her death he fell away from the Christian Church, while he studied medicine with a renowned physician Euphrosinos; under the patronage of Euphrosinos he became physician to the Emperor Maximian or Galerius.

He was won back to Christianity by Saint Hermolaus (characterized as a bishop of the church at Nicomedia in the later literature), who convinced him that Christ was the better physician, signaling the significance of the exemplum of Pantaleon that faith is to be trusted over medical advice, marking the direction European medicine was to take until the 16th century.

St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote regarding this incident: He studied medicine with such success, that the Emperor Maximillian appointed him his physician. One day as our saint was discoursing with a holy priest named Hermolaus, the latter, after praising the study of medicine, concluded thus: "But, my friend, of what use are all thy acquirements in this art, since thou art ignorant of the science of salvation?"

By miraculously healing a blind man by invoking the name of Jesus over him, Pantaleon converted his father, upon whose death he came into possession of a large fortune, but freed his slaves and, distributing his wealth among the poor, developed a great reputation in Nicomedia. Envious colleagues denounced him to the emperor during the Diocletian persecution. The emperor wished to save him and sought to persuade him to apostasy. Pantaleon, however, openly confessed his faith, and as proof that Christ is the true God, he healed a paralytic. Notwithstanding this he was condemned to death by the emperor, who regarded the miracle as an exhibition of magic.

According to the later hagiography, Pantaleon’s flesh was first burned with torches, whereupon Christ appeared to all in the form of Hermolous to strengthen and heal Pantaleon. The torches were extinguished. Then a bath of molten lead was prepared; when the apparition of Christ stepped into the cauldron with him, the fire went out and the lead became cold. Pantaleon was now thrown into the sea, loaded with a great stone, which floated. He was thrown to wild beasts, but these fawned upon him and could not be forced away until he had blessed them. He was bound on the wheel, but the ropes snapped, and the wheel broke. An attempt was made to behead him, but the sword bent, and the executioners were converted to Christianity. Pantaleon implored heaven to forgive them, for which reason he also received the name of Panteleimon ("Mercy for everyone" or "all-compassionate"). It was not until he himself desired it that it was possible to behead him, upon which there issued forth blood and a white liquid like milk.

Saint Alphonsus wrote:

"At Ravello, a city in the kingdom of Naples, there is a vial of his blood, which becomes blood every year [on his feast day], and may be seen in this state interspersed with the milk, and I, the author of this work, have seen it."

Veneration in the East

The Eastern tradition concerning Pantaleon follows more or less the medieval Western hagiography, but lacks any mention of a visible apparition of Christ. It states instead that Hermolaus was still alive while Pantaleon’s torture was underway, but was martyred himself only shortly before Pantaleon’s beheading along with two companions, Hermippas and Thermocrates. The saint is canonically depicted as a beardless young man with a full head of curly hair.

Pantaleon’s relics, venerated at Nicomedia, were transferred to Constantinople. Numerous churches, shrines, and monasteries have been name for him.

Veneration in Western Europe

At the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen near Staffelstein in Franconia, Germany, St. Pantaleon is venerated with his hands nailed to his head, reflecting another legend about his death.

After the Black Death of the mid-14th century in Western Europe, as a patron saint of physicians and midwives, he came to be regarded as one of the fourteen guardian martyrs, the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Relics of the saint are to be found at Saint Denis at Paris; his head is venerated at Lyon.

Italy

A phial containing some of his blood was long preserved at Ravello. On the feast day of the saint, the blood was said to become fluid and to bubble (compare Saint Januarius). Paolo Veronese’s painting of Pantaleon can be found in the church of San Pantalon in Venice; it shows the saint healing a child. In Calabria, there is a small town named Papanice, after Pantaleon. Each year on his feast day, a statue of the saint is carried through the town to give a blessing for all those who seek it.

France

In France, he was depicted in a window in Chartres Cathedral. In southern France there are six communes under the protective name of Saint-Pantaléon. Though there are individual churches consecrated to him elsewhere, there are no communes named for him in the north or northwest of France.

#st. pantaleon

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“Still Star-Crossed” hot take, 3 episodes in

I’m a little reluctant to write a review of a show I’ve only barely started watching, but given that I’ve already talked a little about it here and who knows how long it will last given its low ratings, I want to put down in writing why I’ve enjoyed it so far. To do that, let me address the two concerns that have dominated the discourse on this series from the outset.

The first is a complaint about the lack of “realism” - by which it’s generally meant “why are there so many black people in mumblemumble century Italy?” That this is what many people are upset by rather than the anachronistic costuming or the cathedral that they completely made up for the show says something about the priorities of at least certain American viewers.

But for me this as well as other complaints about “realism” seem to be entirely missing the point. This is an adaptation of a book that is a fanfic sequel of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which was itself adapted from Arthur Brooke’s prose book Romeo and Juliet, which was an adaptation of the narrative poem The Tragical History of Romeo and Juliet (which Shakespeare also took inspiration from), which was supposedly translated from a novella by Matteo Bondello called Giuletta e Romeo, which was adapted from a slew of earlier Italian works going back to the mid-fifteenth century, all of which were loosely inspired by actual Veronese feuds as well as Hellenistic legends like Pyramus and Thisbe. Trying to look for “realism” in this situation is absurd.

Indeed, colorblind casting is fairly common in stage performances of Shakespeare by this point, save in certain works like Othello, and I think the choice to essentially ignore race and cast whoever is one that gives the series a staged quality, which I will return to in a moment.

The other concern is that this show is a landmark moment for representation of people of color, particularly for dark-skinned black people, with the major roles of Rosaline (the lead), Prince Escalus (one of her possible love interests), and Livia (Rosaline’s sister). As a white woman I can’t speak to how it feels to see this kind of representation on screen; I’ll leave that to the heartfelt gushing I’ve seen elsewhere on tumblr. But you can have good representation in an otherwise bad work. So the question has to be asked, is Still Star-Crossed actually a good show?

Well, yes and no. I do like it a lot, but it has some glaring objective flaws. I’m going to give some spoiler-filled examples here, so skip this paragraph if you want to avoid them, but there were two major cringeworthy moments for me in the last two episodes. By far the least forgivable were the two separate conversations that Benvolio has with his uncle Lord Montague which really should have been only one. It makes no sense at all for Montague to spend one spat of dialog talking only about how Benvolio has to fake being in love with Rosaline and leave out the much more important and recent revelation about Lord Capulet murdering someone until later. It’s incredibly disjointed and speaks to both poor writing and editing. And speaking of that murder, having the architect literally say “I won’t take the fall” while standing on scaffolding...I literally checked my watch to see how long it would take Capulet to say “You will take the fall,” and push him off the ledge - which he did, about a minute later. It’s incredibly narmy, and not helped by Capulet’s flashbacks to it over and over in the next episode.

So yes, it has quite a few problems that as a critic I have to recognize, but I want to explain why I still enjoy it, and here I have to come back to that sense of it being staged. It’s hard to mind the moments of melodrama and the obvious scriptedness when the show is invoking itself as fiction. This is why the choice of “unrealistic” casting (and yes, there were black people in Italy at the time, but in the show nobody seems even slightly aware of differences in appearance) makes perfect sense for this show - it highlights the artificiality of what we are watching. Add on the references to other of Shakespeare’s works, from the episode titles to a nod to Taming of the Shrew, there’s a clear message: this is a fictional story with fictional characters and you the audience are supposed to know this, to be aware of it, and among other things to notice immediately the many, many tropes that show up in it.

I haven’t read the book, but if it’s plot is at all similar to the show, then it was inevitable that it would have faced accusations of being horribly cliched if it had tried for a more “realistic,” serious approach. The contrived arranged marriage, the forbidden romance, the enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, the sudden plot twists, everyone being related to everyone else, etc. etc. are all rather soap operatic and yet because the show has advertised its own fictionality, its own fairy tale quality, these things don’t take me out of the story. Because I’m already outside of the story, aware that it’s a story, ready to watch them play around with the tropes they invoke (this is a reaction I’ve seen from other fans as well).

And that sense of “play,” both in the sense of staging and the sense of fun, is why I like the show for all its structural flaws. It’s very light in spite of some major violence and angst, and that makes it breezy summer viewing, a break from dramatic TV’s need to be Serious Drama About Serious Issues. Just let us enjoy a kind of silly Shakespeare fanfic every once in a while, please.

#still star crossed #like i may eat all these words as it continues on #but as of episode 3 this is me #mini-review

[anastpaul]

Thought for the Day – 23 April

The Christian hero is not the slayer of dragons or the knight who wields the sword. The Christian hero is the saint, although saints like St Joan of Arc, could and did wield the sword too. St George, whose Memorial it is today, got lost in legends and folklore but he was a real soldier who gave his life in witness to Christ.   He was a Martyr for Christ – the ultimate act of heroism.   If only we remembered him correctly and with honour, for this martyrdom for the One who saved us!

St George pray for us and we pray that your memory may be restored!

First image -  Martyrdom of Saint George, c.1564 – Paolo Veronese

(via AnaStpaul – Breathing Catholic)

#stgeorge #april23stgeorge

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4/17/20 O&A NYC SHALL WE DANCE FRIDAY: Judith Jamison- Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph)

Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph), Op. 63, is a ballet in one act for the Ballets Russes based on the story of Potiphar’s Wife, with a libretto by Hofmannsthal and Kessler and music by Richard Strauss. Composed in 1912–14, it premiered at the Paris Opera on 14 May 1914. (more…)

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