"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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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Plato and Aristotle
Vincenzo Grandi (1493-1578), Plato and Aristotle, in Trent, Museo Diocesano Tridentino, inv. 19944 and 19945:
Hat tip: Eric Thomson, who notes that a very similar pair can be found in Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, inv. E000305 and E000314:
