For the last year I have been writing a book about Dante and the Divine Comedy. I am not an expert and that is the point of the book. I tried to read the Divine Comedy many years ago and got stuck. This time around I kept working on it until I understood how to [...]
I just finished reading The House of Green Turf - a romantic thriller by Ellis Peters. She is better known as the writer of the Brother Cadfael mysteries. I have read lots of commentary on how to become a (better) writer and one of the most consistent pieces of advice is to read in the [...]
Just to say that I've been locked out of this site for months because my email was blacklisted. And how do you find out about something like that? Since they aren't emailing you ??? ... but I finally got through to WordPress and the problem is fixed. Of course it doesn't help that I have [...]
Making mistakes/owning mistakes Is the Pope Making the Galileo Mistake "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." W. Shakespeare Galileo's insult to the Pope ended in a trial for disobedience (not heresy). Galileo was convicted and sentenced to house arrest. (If you want a good summary of the trial look for Stillman Drake's [...]
In the previous post about mistakes ( Making mistakes/owning mistakes ) I wrote that one truth about Galileo is that he asked the Church in 1616 to declare as dogma that the earth moved and the sun stood still. Cardinal Robert Bellarmine was alive at this point and had a hand in the response. What the Church [...]
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