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‘The Oath of the Horatii’, by Armand Caraffe (1762-1822) (Moscow, Pushkin Museum)

Poetry and Livy’s Preface

It is interesting to me that Livy’s preface begins with the first four feet of a dactylic hexameter:Facturusne operae pretium sim…In other words, he

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Dante’s new nose

Can you picture Dante, or his famous profile? His iconography is pretty static, yet now new research has concluded that his famous straight aquiline n

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