Hypnerotomachia
Poliphili (from Greek hýpnos,
‘sleep’, éros,
‘love’, and máchē,
‘fight’), called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a
romance said to be by Francesco Colonna and a famous example of early printing. First
published in Venice in 1499, in an elegant page layout, with refined woodcut illustrations in an Early Renaissance style, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents
a mysterious arcane allegory in which Poliphilo pursues his love Polia through a
dreamlike landscape, and is, seemingly, at last reconciled with her by the
Fountain of Venus. The book was printed
by Aldus Manutius in Venice in December 1499.
The book is anonymous, but an acrostic formed by the first, elaborately decorated letter in
each chapter in the original Italian reads POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCVS COLVMNA
PERAMAVIT, "Brother Francesco Colonna has dearly loved Polia." Despite this, scholars have also attributed
the book to Leon
Battista Alberti, and earlier, to Lorenzo de Medici. The latest
contribution in this respect was the attribution to Aldus Manutius, and a different Francesco Colonna, this one a
wealthy Roman Governor. The author of
the illustrations is even less certain.
Find history, plot summary and allusions/references in other works at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili
"The Hypnerotomachia is an encyclopedia
masquerading as a novel, a dissertation on everything from architecture to
zoology, written in a style that even a tortoise would find slow. It is the world’s longest book about a man
having a dream, and it makes Marcel Proust, who wrote the world’s longest book
about a man eating a piece of cake, look like Ernest Hemingway." http://www.any-read.com/read/The_Rule_of_Four/Pages_10.html
On Dec. 18, 2014, the Ohio Development Services Agency
awarded $41.8 million in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits to 31
applicants planning to rehabilitate 35 historic buildings. Together, the projects are expected to
leverage approximately $600 million in private investments in 12 communities. Find the Round 13 recipients including
Hensville in Toledo, Cincinnati Music Hall and Granville Inn, at http://development.ohio.gov/files/media/pressrelease/12.18.14%20-%20Release%20-%2035%20Historic%20Buildings%20Rehabilitated%20with%20Help%20from%20State.pdf
The Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program provides a tax credit in order to leverage the
private redevelopment of historic buildings.
The program is highly competitive and receives applications bi-annually
in March and September. The application
period for Round 14 of the Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit program is now
open. The application form can be
downloaded under ‘Application Information’. A total of $27.5 million in tax credit
allocation is currently available for Round 14 applicants. All applicants are required to schedule
pre-application meetings with both the Ohio Development Services Agency and the
State Historic Preservation Office prior to March 16, 2015. Please contact the Office of Strategic
Business Investments at historic@development.ohio.gov or 614-728-0995 and the State Historic
Preservation Office at lbrownell@ohiohistory.org or 614-298-2000. http://development.ohio.gov/cs/cs_ohptc.htm
The 11 eating clubs on Prospect Avenue are institutions unique to Princeton
University. They are private
organizations, independently owned and operated. The members of eating clubs are
second-semester sophomores, juniors and seniors at Princeton. While classes are in session, the clubs offer
breakfast, lunch and dinner. Each club
determines its own membership, five of them by lottery called
"sign-in," and six by way of "bicker," a selective
membership process. http://www.princeton.edu/odus/living/clubs/ To get into Ivy,
the oldest, most expensive and most patrician eating club at Princeton
University, candidates must sit for 10 one-on-one interviews with members,
whose attempts to plumb their souls touch on what their parents do, where they
spend summers and who their friends are.
Then the entire century-old club votes on prospects in all-night
sessions. Like an English men's club,
there is a blackball rule: if one of 130
members vetoes a candidate, he or she is rejected -- ''hosed'' in the tart
campus vernacular. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/style/at-ivy-club-a-trip-back-to-elitism.html
A league is
a unit of length (or, in various regions, area). It was long common in Europe and Latin
America, but it is no longer an official unit in any nation. The word originally meant the distance a
person could walk in an hour. In
the English-speaking world, on land, the league was most commonly
defined as three miles,
though the length of a mile could vary from place to place and depending on the
era. At sea, a league was three nautical miles (6,100
yards; 5.6 kilometres). English usage
also included any of the other leagues mentioned below (for example, in
discussing the Treaty of Tordesillas). The league was used in Ancient Rome, defined as 1.5 Roman miles (7,500 Roman feet,
2.2 km, 1.4 mi.). As used in Jules Verne's Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a
league is four kilometres. In Yucatán and other parts of rural Mexico, the league is still
commonly used in the original sense of the distance that can be covered on foot
in an hour, so that a league along a good road on level ground is a greater
distance than a league on a difficult path over rough terrain. Find a
comparison table of the different lengths for a "league", in
different countries and at different times in history at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_%28unit%29
The phrase on tenterhooks comes
from one of the processes of making woollen cloth. After it had been woven, the cloth still
contained oil from the fleece, mixed with dirt.
It was cleaned in a fulling mill, but then it had to be dried carefully
or it would shrink and crease. So the
lengths of wet cloth were stretched on wooden frames, and left out in the open
for some time. This allowed them to dry
and straightened their weave. These
frames were the tenters, and the tenter
hooks were
the metal hooks used to fix the cloth to the frame.
At one time, it would have been common in
manufacturing areas to see fields full of these frames (older English maps
sometimes marked an area as a tenter-field). So it was not a huge leap of the imagination
to think of somebody on tenterhooks as being in an state of anxious suspense,
stretched like the cloth on the tenter.
The tenters have gone, but the meaning has survived. Tenter comes
from the Latin tendere, to stretch, via a French intermediate. The word has been in the language since the
fourteenth century, and on
tenters soon
after became a phrase meaning painful anxiety.
The exact phrase on
tenterhooks seems first to have been used by Tobias
Smollett in Roderick Random in 1748. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ont1.htm
Farmer's Flap-Jacks adapted from Alfred Brumley's All-Day Singin' and Dinner on the
Ground Mix together 2 c. flour, 2 tsp.
baking soda, and 1/4 tsp. salt. When
ready to cook, mix in 1 1/2 c. sour milk.
Drop from large spoon onto greased grill. Brown on both sides. Serve with butter and syrup.
The terms "a.m." and
"p.m." are abbreviations of the Latin ante
meridiem (before
midday) and post meridiem (after
midday). Depending on the style guide referenced, the abbreviations "AM" and
"PM" are variously written in small capitals ("am" and "pm"), uppercase letters ("AM" and "PM"), or lowercase letters ("am" and "pm"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock
DIRECTORATE
GENERAL FOR INTERNAL POLICIES POLICY DEPARTMENT A: ECONOMIC AND SCIENTIFIC POLICY – Network Neutrality
Revisited: Challenges and Responses in
the EU and in the US, December 2014. This document was requested by the European
Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Authored by J. Scott Marcus. See 122-page report at
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1267
March 11, 2015 On this date in 1702,
The Daily Courant, England's first
national daily newspaper was published for the first time. On this date in 1897, Henry
Cowell, American pianist and composer, was born.
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