Tuesday, March 22, 2022
The Sack of Rome
Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (1847–1926), Le sac de Rome en 410 par les barbares, in Sète, France,
Musée Paul Valéry (inv. no. 891-3-1):
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"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
Michael Gilleland is an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.