"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, March 06, 2025
Rural Life
Horace, Epistles 1.10.14 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
Do you know any place to be preferred to the blissful country?
novistine locum potiorem rure beato?
Telemaco Signorini (1835-1901), Buoi a Pietramala (Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano, Collezione Grassi, n. 119):
