Wait, what?!! John Milton visited Galileo in Florence in 1638!? And this is referenced in Paradise Lost! I can't believe I'm only just finding out! 🤯🤦🏻♀️
https://www.theflorentine.net/2017/12/04/john-milton-florence-italy/
Wait, what?!! John Milton visited Galileo in Florence in 1638!? And this is referenced in Paradise Lost! I can't believe I'm only just finding out! 🤯🤦🏻♀️
https://www.theflorentine.net/2017/12/04/john-milton-florence-italy/
#OnThisDay #Nov23
I am grateful this Thanksgiving 2023, for John Milton's denouncement of censorship all the way back in 1644. His powerful advocacy for freedom of speech resonates as a cornerstone in the foundations of numerous justice systems worldwide. History repeats itself, and it behooves us to be ready to fight for principles that continue to be threatened throughout the history of man.
Another #bucketlist item ticked off for #scarathlon 🥰 this is me doing some grad school reading in a cute aesthetic cafe today. I had a pot of peppermint tea and finished paradise lost for my class on medieval and renaissance women that meets on Monday nights for my masters degree
#skeletoncrew
I truly love charity shops!
I found very interesting books and I can't wait to read them all! 🤩❤️
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.“ Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.
I write about Satanic literature, culture, history and more in my new book coming out with Simon & Schuster... about the history and culture of Satanism 🙂
It's called The Little Book of Satanism, and drops 10/2022. #author #book #books #satanic #luciengreaves #lucifer
What incredible imagery. And what a thrill to read the lines that serve as the epigraph to Northern Lights.Clearly Milton was using the advances in astronomy when he thought of this?God creating multiple worlds from the Chaos of space-beautiful.
I'm reading Joe Moshenka's sublime biography of Milton,and decided to make an attempt at Paradise Lost. I did not know that these really famous lines are said by Satan!
#OnThisDay in 1667 John Milton sold the copyright for Paradise Lost for £10. By that time the once wealthy Milton had fallen into poverty. A supporter of Cromwell, he was to be imprisoned in 1660 but was saved by powerful friends. Stripped of property and prestige, and having lost his sight years earlier, Milton began dictating his epic in 1663 to his family. Despite inauspicious beginnings, it was hailed as a masterpiece. #HistoryGetsLIT
Pulled out one of my old college books from my British Literature class for this prompt ☺️📚 I even had an old makeshift bookmark left in it 🤪
#BeginsWith 🥳📚 #Lost 😇 😈 #ParadiseLost
#BookNerd 🤓💙📚
