Vanishing Youth
Petrarch is known as the father of Humanism and ushered in the era of the Italian Renaissance. This passage is from Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity. It kin...
Month: September 2013
The Knight of the Cart
I read my first medieval Arthurian romance. This one is by Chrétien de Troyes called The Knight of the Cart. It’s a poem (although, the translation I read...
The Two Parts of Wisdom
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But, while joined by many...
The Three Reichs
All of us know that Hitler’s Nazi Germany was called the Third Reich. But what were the first two Reichs? I was unclear about this, so I looked it up: The...