Slow or swift we speed to one abode. Hither we all make our way; this is our final home.From Bernardino Genga (1620-1690), Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno (Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1691), with the motto INGREDIMVR CVNCTI, DIVES CVM PAVPERE MIXTVS, i.e., WE ALL ENTER, RICH MIXED WITH POOR:
serius aut citius sedem properamus ad unam.
tendimus huc omnes, haec est domus ultima.
"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).
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Thursday, July 04, 2013
Tendimus Huc Omnes
Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.33-34 (tr. Frank Justus Miller):
