Italian commedia dell'arte costumes From reading people like R. G. Collingwood ( The Idea of History ) and Northrop Frye ( Anatomy of ...

  The only place in Canada this band could have come from is Quebec. The name means "angina of the chest". Rick Beato, to stop peo...

As the Wall Street Journal comments: How Timothée Chalamet Made Enemies of Opera and Ballet Stars   Opera singers and ballet dancers found t...

 The quote I put up the other day comes from this collection: I'm just about to start the last story, Death in Venice. After running acr...

Stradivarius violin One reason I don't always get out a miscellanea on Fridays is lack of material. But here is a good article on the wo...

For Christmas this year a friend of mine sent me a beautiful Everyman edition of Buddenbrooks and a collection of short stories, both by Th...

I'm still working on a Monteverdi post, but in the meantime I ran across a quote in an Ann Althouse post that sparked some recollections...