"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Amalasuintha was the daughter of Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, and she reigned from 526 to 535 first as regent and then, if only for just one year, as queen regnant. She was a prominent intellectual figure and is known to have spoken...
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish diplomat and one of the most important artists in the Dutch Golden Age. I'm sure you know him. He ran a very prolific workshop in Antwerp and he worked on several historical...
Panthea was a Persian Lieutenant Commander who served under Cyrus the Great, a thing far from being uncommon for Persian women. She played a crucial role in the Battle of Opis (539 b.C.) during the Persian invasion of Mesopotamia, in which the armies of Cyrus defeated...
Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice, was a member of the Herodian Dynasty and appointed Queen of Judaea under the Roman Empire. During the First Jewish-Roman War, she became the lover of the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus, and she supported her lover's father...
Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was a pioneer female artist in Bologna, Italy, where she worked and established an art academy for other women. She died in 1665, aged 27, and the mysterious circumstances of her death, alongside her young age,...
Pierre Mignard (Troyes, 17 November 1612 – Paris, 30 May 1695) was a French painter, brother of the equally renowned Nicholas who was also a painter. He was contemporary to Charles Le Brun, the favourite painter of King Louis XIV, and he carried on with...
Porcia, born on 70 b.C., was the daughter of Cato the Younger, a stoic roman senator of the late republic, and the wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, the infamous assassin of Julius Caesar. Brutus married her after divorcing Claudia, the daughter of his long-time ally Appius...
Le pillole che provengono dalla serie di norme UNI 11337 destano, chissà come mai, sempre scalpore. Mi aspetto che questa invece non scateni troppe polemiche, dato che ormai dovremmo aver compreso quali sono le competenze da richiedere a un BIM manager e qual è il...
Sisygambis was the daughter of king Artaxerxes II Mnemon and, following an ancient Achaemenid tradition, she was made to wed her own brother Arsames. Her first-born, Darius, became king of Persia in 336 b.C., following an obscure plot in which the court eunuch and chiliarch had...
I’m back from Billund, where I have attended the 2021 International LEGO Serious Play Conference, and I already published some of my notes in almost real-time, but I have more material and I’ll be publishing it, after some due polishing, between today and tomorrow. The first...
