#therepublicofletters

[lazy--dumpling]

shout out to @allaegoriest for being the sole person to keep @classicist-society alive and running

[brother-emperors]

he asks you to stay and in that moment you realize that you are in a very real danger of no longer being your own person, that right now is the before and after of whatever you will become.

@therepublicofletters said: Francesco had to kill lorenzo because he knew he couldn’t resist the MAGNETIC POWER that drew literally every other person in Florence. He entirely had to run away to Rome. Guglielmo meanwhile …….

thinking about this THINKING ABOUT THIS

[emmathompsonegot]

Tagged by @woman-respecter :)

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

Last song: Harlem Roulette by the Mountain Goats, or, if you want the literal last song I listened to, Ring Out, Wild Bells by Johnathan Dove

Currently watching: too many things. Supernatural, Riverdale, wwdits, Harley Quinn

Last movie: D.E.B.S. Ok I’d heard about this, but had no idea what it was about, and it ROCKS. SO good

Currently reading: last two books I failed to finish in my ongoing quest to finally finish a goddamn book were It and Milk Fed. Both very good

Sweet, spicy, or savory: Savory

Relationship status: to borrow woman-respecter’s answer, single and afraid to go on the Apps

Current obsession: supernatural. It’s got that intoxicating combo of great potential and bad everything else. Also shout out to Harley Quinn, a show so tailor made for this website that it baffles me that no one ever talks about it

Last google search: how to shut off audio filtering on zoom lol

Currently working on: just got out of zoom choir. Now it’s #bedtime

Tagging: @boundingfeather @carbomcoco @uncahier @shieldsmaiden @anyxnka @therepublicofletters and the person reading this <3

[girlpetrarca]

@therepublicofletters @girlguidrigildo @hercorrupterofwords @transaeneas @jaquemate1916mp3 @moi-ennepe and @larmegliamori have all tagged me in similar games in the span of these few weeks

I'm a bit embarrassed by the quantity of people who tagged me and whom I didn't answer, but life (university) got in the way .. so now I'm trying to make up for this delay by answering with a single post

Last song: The Far Side of The World (Master and Commander soundtrack)

Currently watching: nothing really

Last movie: Becket 1964

Currently reading: Louis XIII The Just by A. Lloyd Moote

Sweet, spicy or savoury: spicyy

Relationship status: single

Current obsession: early 17th century French history & early Christian hagiography

Last Google search: a pizza place nearby because grandma wants pizza for lunch

Currently working on: my thesis 🙃

[markantonys]

Hey there! I just wanted to share, I'm writing my undergrad thesis on the Pazzi and I've been in the archives all summer working on it – and I remembered that you and some other people had been debating some relationships in the family? but in my research I found this amazing family tree that I should I'd share with you. It's been inordinately helpful for me, and the book it's from also has other families bit (.) ly (/) 3g2qlLz (sorry link is super long)

(link) oh this is insanely comprehensive, thank you so much for sending it along!! and good luck with your thesis!

[castudies]

In celebration of getting to a new k of followers, here are (only a portion of the) blogs that I love quite a bit and think y’all would like (assuming u guys like what content I choose to reblog/like/post!). Check them out when u can!!!

@justanotherstudyblrinthecrowd @vaguely-surreal @studyambitiouss @sabrutus @cruelests @tendergazing @morallyambiguous @snapesfortelodin @lattestudies @rothko @therepublicofletters @uiucstudying @coffeegurl @essayisms @studentofthecosmos @a-study-in-letters @nulkvoid

I keep a running list under “updates” on my blog​ so if u ever wanna mass queue! Also if u happen to be one of these ^ amazing blogs do not feel obligated to engage w me/this post. This is purely admiration and I hope you’re doing well and taking care <3 <3 <3

[kafkasdiariies]

are you ok?

Oh heeyyyy

I'm ok I'm kinda down because I was supposed to land a career last year (from recruiting events for students with mental and physical disabilities) and with this pandemic I feel like it's never going to happen. Thanks for asking Emma 😘

[kxowledge]

What books did you order?!

Douze Leçons Sur L'Histoire (Antoine Prost) & Histoire du Christianisme (éd. Alain Corbin)

I actually wrote the post about a month ago, but published it only now (I have around 150 drafts, I’m trying to clear them out) and I’ve actually read some chapters of both. Prost’s first two chapters are not relevant at all for me, but from the third onwards it gets interesting. And HC! it’s so good! Each chapter is written by a scholar who has done groundbreaking research on topic they’re presenting, so it’s not a watered-down history, but something of interest for both those who don’t have prior knowledge and those who do. And it’s so well-written that it’s a pleasure to read as well. It’s rather comprehensive and it came at an affordable price. Currently enjoying it a lot!

[teastainedjournal]

What kind of pens do you use?

I usually use Faber Castell Finepen 1511 because it’s comfortable and flowy, and if i’m feeling fancy, I use a vintage fountain pen that a friend gave me when I was a teenager, and that I hold dear to my heart 

[nocturnalpoets]

Rosehip and Darjeeling !

thank you for asking!

Rosehip tea: Which book did you love when you were younger?

the mediator by meg cabot! it‘s not a book, but rather a series that i was completely obsessed with. omg the nights i’ve spent reading those books and daydreaming about them...

Darjeeling: What languages do you speak?

portuguese and english, and i’m currently learning spanish during quarantine!

from the “you are in a café with me, what tea do you order?” asks!

[antiquery]

10 & 14 + I miss u!

aw em i miss you too, we need to hang!

name a dog

this is my (my family’s) dog tabasco + my aeschylus prof’s response to him

what’s your coffee order?

at home, big old mug of that pecan-flavored stuff they sell at HEB + peppermint creamer, or hazelnut if i can’t get peppermint. at a coffee shop, usually either just a pot of whatever house roast (in which i put a ridiculous amount of cream/halfnhalf and zero cal sweetener, not because i care about calories but because actual sugar dissolves badly in coffee) or anything peppermint flavored, no matter the time of year

[cremedelacoeur]

🍓 You post lovely things.

Aww thank you! Let’s be friends! 😊😊

[brother-emperors]

tagged by @therepublicofletters!! thank you for the tag ❤

rules: answer the questions and then tag 9 people you want to get to know better (I never do this RIP)

last song: ONEUS' Biala Conmigo, but at this moment I'm in the middle of listening to IDKHOW's What Love

currently watching: I've been alternating between Beyond Evil, Cattleya Killer, Kamen Rider Build, and Showtime's The Borgias

last movie: straight up I forgot about every movie I ever watched for a minute, but last night I was re watching The Eagle (2011) for the twentieth time

currently reading: Rizal's El Filibusterismo, The Story of Jeon Unchi, Mo Du (默读) by Priest

sweet, spicy, or savory: savory!

relationship status: in a committed relationship with reading about the Sforzas

current obsession: fucked up brother dynamics. Mortal Kombat 1 got to me. but also all of that with Drusus and Germanicus. the twin-ification of them. the gens Julia side of the Julio Claudian tree is really intent on. eating itself.

last google search: uhhh. let's see. the most recent tabs I have up on my browser are about Im Kkeok-jeong, the Bonifacio trial documents, and literary analysis on Templar Grail Quest Narratives

currently working on: some illustration and comic layouts, doing some edits on the Trikaranos comic, staring at this Antony/Trebonius fic and begging it to stop unlocking themes I just want it to end

tagging: literally anyone who feels like answering some questions, go wild, consider yourselves tagged!

[emmathompsonegot]

Last song: new slang by the shins, a song which came up on my recommendeds, and which I think I vaguely remember from high school

Currently reading: nothing really :/ slash very very slowly making my way through Singing in Style: a guide to vocal performance practices by Martha Elliot, which is a history of vocal technique and style in Western Europe

Currently watching: 2023 is the Year of Starting Supernatural. Also, watched the Glee s2 finale for the first time tonight. I’m in a season of watching middle school hits I missed the first time around

Thanks for the tag :) @woman-respecter

I’m tagging @boundingfeather @carbomcoco @anyxnka @shieldsmaiden @therepublicofletters

[olivermarys]

I think I commented on one of your previous posts but personally I don't have a writeblr because I know I'd never get the same following, but also I don't have enough content to put out and make it consistent; also the aesthetics match - so maybe think on that if you want to make one? (also tell us about your writing please?!?!)

i feel u on the not having enough content cause that’s the main reason why i’m so hesitant to start a separate blog; like yeah, sure; i do have ideas, the odd paragraph written (hasn’t everyone?) but i definitely don’t have enough to keep a blog going? but also i don’t really have any solid ideas (probably only have one if i think abt it) but i’m always embarrassed to talk abt my writing??? which is def smth i’m working on so thank u for messaging me abt it; i appreciate it (✿◠‿◠)

[markantonys]

(not anon but) I have always been bothered by the way the show represented Giuliano, but the truth is that he and Lorenzo actually had a rather rocky relationship even when Piero was still alive. Lorenzo was groomed to be the Lord of Florence while Giuliano was rather left to his own devices without a clear path in life, which ultimately led him into long bouts of depression and anxiety through the 1470s 1/

(which may have caused the health problems that plagued him and kept him in bed on the proposed day of the conspiracy). Although he was of course portrayed as the “prince of youth” in works like Poliziano’s Stanze, he actually considered joining the church at one point for personal (ie. not political) reasons (Lorenzo then tried and failed to secure him a cardinal’s hat) 2/

He was rarely involved in politics and actually felt estranged from Lorenzo because his elder brother tried to keep him out of them. The relationship was not, in fact, a parallel of the Cosimo-Lorenzo or Piero-Giovanni relationship because of this (although Giovanni, like Giuliano, died rather early and wasn’t completely able to fulfill his role as co-ruler). 3/

Giuliano even approached Lorenzo multiple times to call attention to this as he sought a role in the government, but Lorenzo pushed him aside, an act that may actually have even directly led to the unfolding of the conspiracy. Notably, when Lorenzo proposed the law that would have prevented the Pazzi from accepting the Borromei inheritance, he said something along the lines of “if you focus so much on one trivial thing, you could make yourself lose everything” 4/

which is, in the end, exactly what happened. (Interestingly, Giuliano and Guglielmo dei Pazzi were apparently rather good friends). For anyone interested in sources, the most complete “biography” of Giuliano is in Le stirpe de Medici di Cafaggiolo (Perracini, 1924), and there’s a good bit about him and his involvement in politics in vol. 2 of the complete letters of Lorenzo (Giunti 1977). 5/5

ooh very interesting! i remember reading what giuliano said to lorenzo about the inheritance law and i’m still bummed out they didn’t include that plotline in the show bc a) the dramatic irony of it all and b) more concrete and reasonable motive for the pazzi. alas!!

edit: one more followup from @therepublicofletters!

I meant to say this in my ask but I forgot lol I'm getting my degree in Renaissance studies and the Medici/the Pazzi conspiracy is my main topic so if anyone ever needs historical stuff, you know where to find me