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James D'Emilio

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Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity Photos (my own)/threads on Christian art and devotion, Greek/Roman antiquity and its afterlife, European monuments/memorials. Like to read, see, repost interesting things. Bronx born

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Jakob Seisenegger (1534), Ferdinand of Habsburg’s daughters

@BuonconsiglioTn Castle, #Trento

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the cycle of the months of Torre Aquila in the Buonconsiglio Castle #Trento with the first depiction of a snowball battle (late 14th century)!

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The volume "Ripensare la crisi" edited by PhD students from the Department of Civiltà e Forme del Sapere at the @Unipisa has finally been published! There is also an essay in which I try to answer a question: why did Arechis of Benevento choose to call himself princeps?

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Francisco de Goya, so-called "Half-Drowned Dog" (Perro Semihundido), c 1819–1823, Oil mural on plaster transferred to canvas, 131.5 cm × 79.3 cm (51 3⁄4 in × 31 1⁄4 in) (Museo del Prado, Madrid). Originally painted for Goya’s own home, La Quinta del Sordo #c18th

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Tabula Clesiana (46 AD): amnesty by Emperor Claudius for Alpine peoples who had taken advantage of Roman citizenship without being entitled to it.

Buonconsiglio Castle, #Trento

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Master of Sommacampagna (second half of the 14th century), Saint George and the Princess - from the Church of San Giorgio in Terres

Buonconsiglio Castle, #Trento

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detached frescoes from the medieval period /1

Buonconsiglio Castle, #Trento

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Sure, T*p lied, deflected, exaggerated, ranted, and was often incoherent, but his base has bought into that, whether we like it or not. Democrats and wavering voters had a right to expect better from a sitting president who chose to run even when he knew the stakes. No excuses, this is serious.

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Most common writing advice (kill your darlings, no adverbs, show don't tell, etc) is intended to push back on the failures of freshmen in Creative Writing 101, not be applicable in all situations.

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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It sounds very much like the blurb is itself the product of AI, and it's not very promising...

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Soon there won't be journals, just a program you upload your paper to that adds to the knowledge of Gorgtron the Omniscient whom supplicants may offer sacrifices to for shitty summarizations of the literature

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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"

2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."

latenighter.com/news/paramou...

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60 indicators to find potentially related sites

informationlaundromat.com analyses the html code of a website and extracts 60+ indicators from it to help find other related sites (using IP search engines like Shodan, Netlas, Censys or source code search engines like PublicWWW).

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If you want to contact your politicians about mask ban bills, here's a template. Necessary change points like titles & name of addressees are highlighted yellow, but feel free to adjust as needed. If bills are already introduced in your area, consider including their exact legislative ID if you can.

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If he loses (let's hope so), we should retire no. 47. Move right on to 48 when Biden's done.

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I was fascinated by the Botanical Gardens too, the big greenhouses with desert rooms and tropical rooms full of what looked to me like monster plants.

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZ
Z is for … Zodiac
This Greco Deco theatre was restored to its past glory. On the ceiling, you can see a a panoramic view of the Zodiac. We never miss going to a movie when we're in town!
Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro, Vermont

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Z is for zig zagging—sometimes pronounced,sometimes subtle,as the design repeatedly appears in the intricate masonry design of the Basilica Santo Stefano- Il Cortile Di Pilato, Bologna,Italy. ( St Stephen’s Basilica,The Courtyard of Pilate) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZ #Architecture #Travel #Italia 📷

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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of

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The GOP is quickly becoming a party defined by issues on which 70% of the population disagrees with them. Dobbs and gun regulation has exposed this, and now same goes for GOPs increasing embrace of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies. And yet this race is 50/50. Gift link. wapo.st/3VvKTju

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The stunning Holy Trinity church, Middleton-in-Chirbury, is filled with ornate carvings by Reverend W. Brewster. These carvings depict creatures from myths and local legends, such as the folktale associated with Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle.

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The stuff that appears in their Op-Ed section has become totally wild. Just off the charts.

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Z is for Zoo.
Some of my first photographs with a Kodak Instamatic were at the Bronx Zoo. And, that kid with glasses on the camel? No, that couldn't be...
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZ

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Potenza (65%), Bari (70%), Perugia (52%), Florenz (60%): So klar gewinnt die Linke die Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Regionalhauptstädten - und Senatspräsident Ignazio La Russa, Mitbegründer von Fratelli d'Italia fordert ernsthaft, das Wahlrecht zu ändern.

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This article explains how to change the settings in Chrome (or other browsers), so that your Google searches are web searches by default, and don't turn up those AI summaries.
You're welcome.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...

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Migrant*innen in #Frankreich leiden schon jetzt unter verstärktem #Rassismus. Mit den Erfolgen des #RN wächst die Besorgnis. Über die Situation von Tunesier*innen in Frankreich berichtet die Journalistin Teycir Ben Naser

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1/ June 24: Birth of John the Baptist. Two scenes from a Sienese altarpiece (1270s):
1) Mary, visiting her cousin Elizabeth, holds the newborn John
2) after Jesus’ birth, Elizabeth, kneeling, presents John to his cousin Jesus.
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena #MedievalSky #Painting #SaintsInArt

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"This year's pilgrimage took place during a heatwave, with temperatures at times exceeding 50C...[KSA] has been criticised for not doing more to make the Hajj safer, especially for unregistered pilgrims who have no access to facilities such as air conditioned tents"

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A visit this morning to the Punic settlement of Motya (Mozia), destroyed in 398 BCE by Dionysius I of Syracuse, and never significantly resettled in antiquity.

🏺 AncientBlueSky #Sicily #Italy

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“Each request can cover days or weeks of mail sent to or from a person or address, and 97 percent of the requests were approved…Postal inspectors recorded more than 312,000 letters and packages between 2015 and 2023, the records show.”

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2/ Here’s a detail of Mary holding the baby John the Baptist

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James D'Emilio's avatar James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social
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1/ June 24: Birth of John the Baptist. Two scenes from a Sienese altarpiece (1270s):
1) Mary, visiting her cousin Elizabeth, holds the newborn John
2) after Jesus’ birth, Elizabeth, kneeling, presents John to his cousin Jesus.
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena #MedievalSky #Painting #SaintsInArt

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Working on the syllabus for my new "Medieval Italy" class for the fall. Does anyone have any recommendations for an easily accessible article/book chapter for undergrads on Christianity and the end of Rome?

#MedievalSky #HistorySky #Medieval #History

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A correction: Pietro Porcinai was the landscape architect responsible for the gardens surrounding the shrine; the architect who designed the building itself was Pietro Frenguelli.

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