So I wrote a thing. Because I love these two middle aged gays and I want more of their relationship.

Ritual of Fire (Cesar Aldo Book 3) by D.V Bishop

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; Main Market edition (15 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529096502ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529096507 Book Blurb Florence. Summer, 1538. A night patrol finds a rich merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main piazza. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier on this date,…

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Oggi è l’anniversario di quando Aldo Moro finì nel sottoscala dell’Ariston un pensiero alla famiglia a Diodato e a tutti voi

Gelindo Cervi (b. 1901), Antenore Cervi (1906), Aldo Cervi (1909), Ferdinando Cervi (1911), Agostino Cervi (1916), Ovidio Cervi (1918), Ettore Cervi (1921), Quarto Camurri (1921), Poligono di tiro, Reggio Emilia, 28 dicembre 1943

Istituto Alcide Cervi, Gattatico (RE)

(image: I 7 fratelli Cervi, (1968, 105'), Directed by Gianni Puccini, Written by Bruno Baratti, Gianni Puccini, and Cesare Zavattini)

Beatriz Hausner on Her Surrealist Childhood and More

The poet Beatriz Hausner speaks to me about growing up with surrealist parents Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald in Chile and Canada, political pressure from the right and left, Phases, bilingualism, the untranslated works of Spanish-language surrealists, the publishing world and much more.

Beatriz reads "Because I am Beatrice" from Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart here https://soundcloud.com/paulmcrandle/because-i-am-beatrice and from "The Orgasm Elegies" here https://soundcloud.com/paulmcrandle/from-the-orgasm-elegies.

For more on Beatriz's published work and readings, see her website at beatrizhausner.com. Her latest collection Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart is available at bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/beatr…-beatriz-hausner/

Dopo una lunga agonia, Fanciullacci spira nel pomeriggio del 17 luglio 1944

Dopo una lunga agonia, Fanciullacci spira nel pomeriggio del 17 luglio 1944

Firenze: Piazza Santa Croce. Fonte: Wikipedia Bruno Fanciullacci, quarto di sei fratelli, nasce a Pieve a Nievole il 13 novembre 1919 da Raffaello e Rosa Michelini. Per quanto numerosa, la famiglia Fanciullacci vive in condizioni di relativo benessere, grazie alle doti di lavoratore e alla «capacità di saper fare un po’ di tutto» <250 di Raffaello. Egli è un reduce della Prima guerra mondiale,…

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Top 9 people you want to get to know better

@beefsteakclub tagged me 900 years ago, thank you so much!

Favorite Color: Orange. And pink.

Currently reading: The queer principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, a cute adventure/romance featuring a highwayman turned coffeehouse owner turned highwayman again

Last song: The Butterfly Effect - Before You Exit

Last series: if we're talking books it's the Cesare Aldo series by DV Bishop (murder mysteries set in renaissance Florence, with a gay MC, so bloody good). TV-wise i had my heart broken recently by Good Omens 2

Last movie: Asteroid City

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Spicy! Though I do have a sweet thooth too...

Currently working on: well, I've looked at my novel (a lesbian regency espionage extravaganza) today, so that totally counts as working on it, right? Right??!

Tagging: @andrasta14 @saltybenchday @silenea @beeschaos @thefairylights @saltsprite @cheesybadgers @zwergenmaedchen @urisarang and anyone else who wants to play!

·:¨༺ italian masc names ༻¨:·.

‪‪‪‪❤︎‬ Achilleo

‪‪❤︎‬ Adriano

‪‪❤︎‬ Agostino

‪‪❤︎‬ Aldo

❤︎‬ Alfonso

‪‪❤︎‬ Angelo

‪‪❤︎‬ Antonio

‪‪❤︎‬ Armando

‪‪❤︎‬ Augustino

‪‪❤︎‬ Battista

‪‪❤︎‬ Carlo

‪‪❤︎‬ Carmelo

‪‪❤︎‬ Cesare

‪‪❤︎‬ Dario

‪‪❤︎‬ Dante

‪‪❤︎‬ Domenico

‪‪❤︎‬ Elio

‪‪❤︎‬ Enzo

‪‪❤︎‬ Florentino

‪‪❤︎‬ Franco

‪‪❤︎‬ Giovanni

‪‪❤︎‬ Leonardo

‪‪❤︎‬ Luca

‪‪❤︎‬ Marcello

‪‪❤︎‬ Massimo

‪‪❤︎‬ Matteo

‪‪❤︎‬ Mauro

‪‪❤︎‬ Othello

‪‪❤︎‬ Paolo

‪‪❤︎‬ Pietro

‪‪❤︎‬ Renzo

‪‪❤︎‬ Romeo

‪‪❤︎‬ Santino

‪‪❤︎‬ Stefano

‪‪❤︎‬ Valentino

‪‪❤︎‬ Vincenzo

‪‪❤︎‬ Vito

Queer Book List

I've just updated my complete list of LGBT+ novels ever read (as far as I can remember). Not including short story collections, comics, non-fiction, or things I've completely forgotten.

I'm not including books where a main character's sexuality was only implied (it's got to be clear on the page), and this list contains queer main and secondary characters only, not background characters that play little part in the story.

I don't read a lot of Young Adult, so assume these are all adult-oriented unless otherwise stated.

I'm not judging nor rating nor recommending any of these; it's purely a list of books I've finished.

True Colors #1: Conventionally Yours, by Annabeth Albert gay male main characters, romance, happy ending

The Geek Who Saved Christmas, by Annabeth Albert gay male main characters, romance, happy ending

Perfect Harmony #2: Love Me Tenor, by Annabeth Albert gay male main character, gay male side characters, romance, happy ending

Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl, by Hettie Bell bisexual female main character, lesbian main character, romance, happy ending

Master of One, by Dani Bennett and Jaida Jones gay male main characters, trans woman side character, high fantasy, unfinished series

Cesare Aldo #1: City of Vengeance, by D. V. Bishop Cesare Aldo #2: The Darkest Sin, by D. V. Bishop gay male main character, gay male side characters, mystery, historical, unfinished series

The Crow: The Lazarus Heart, by Poppy Z. Brite gay male main character, trans woman main character, horror, unhappy ending - it's The Crow

Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z. Brite gay male main characters, horror, unhappy ending

Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite gay male main characters, horror, I don't remember the ending

The Black Magician #2: The Novice, by Trudi Canavan The Black Magician #3: The High Lord, by Trudi Canavan gay male side characters, high fantasy, happy ending for the gay characters

The Hours, by Michael Cunningham lesbian main characters, bisexual female main characters, general fiction, I don't remember the ending

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, by Samuel R. Delany gay male main characters, science fiction, unfinished series

The High King's Golden Tongue, by Megan Derr gay male main characters, romance, high fantasy, happy ending

Nightrunner Books #1: Luck in the Shadows, by Lynn Flewelling Nightrunner Books #2: Stalking Darkness, by Lynn Flewelling Nightrunner Books #3: Traitor's Moon, by Lynn Flewelling gay male main characters, high fantasy, everyone is alive and well as of book 3, I haven't read the rest of the series

Reforged, by Seth Haddon gay male main characters, high fantasy, happy ending

The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall lesbian main character, historical classic, unhappy ending

Princesses #1: The Stepsister Scheme, by Jim C. Hines Princesses #2: The Mermaid's Madness, by Jim C. Hines Princesses #3: Red Hood's Revenge, by Jim C. Hines lesbian main character, fantasy, fairy tale, everyone is alive and well as of book 3, I haven't read book 4 yet

Blood & Smoke #1 - Blood Books #1: Blood Price, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #2 - Blood Books #2: Blood Trail, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #3 - Blood Books #3: Blood Lines, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #4 - Blood Books #4: Blood Pact, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #5 - Blood Books #5: Blood Debt, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #6 - Smoke Series #1: Smoke and Shadows, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #7 - Smoke Series #2: Smoke and Mirrors, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #8 - Smoke Series #3: Smoke and Ashes, by Tanya Huff bisexual male main character, gay male side character (main in the Smoke Books), low fantasy, humour, mostly happy ending

Torin Kerr #1: Confederation #1: Valor's Choice, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #2: Confederation #2: The Better Part of Valor, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #3: Confederation #3: The Heart of Valor, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #4: Confederation #4: Valor's Trial, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #5: Confederation #5: The Truth of Valor, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #6: Peacekeeper #1: An Ancient Peace, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #7: Peacekeeper #2: A Peace Divided, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #8: Peacekeeper #3: The Privilege of Peace, by Tanya Huff bisexual main characters, bisexual side characters, military space opera, humour, some queer characters survive, others do not - it's set during a war

Gale Girls #1: The Enchantment Emporium, by Tanya Huff Gale Girls #2: The Wild Ways, by Tanya Huff Gale Girls #3: The Future Falls, by Tanya Huff bisexual main characters, bisexual side characters, low fantasy, humour, happy ending

Keeper's Chronicles #1: Summon the Keeper, by Tanya Huff Keeper's Chronicles #2: The Second Summoning, by Tanya Huff Keeper's Chronicles #3: Long Hot Summoning, by Tanya Huff lesbian background character in books 1 & 2 becomes main in book 3, low fantasy, humour, happy ending

Quarters #1: Sing The Four Quarters, by Tanya Huff Quarters #2: Fifth Quarter, by Tanya Huff Quarters #3: No Quarter, by Tanya Huff Quarters #4: The Quartered Sea, by Tanya Huff bisexual main characters, bisexual side characters, high fantasy, humour, happy endings

The Fire's Stone, by Tanya Huff gay male main character, bisexual male main character, asexual female main character, poly relationship, high fantasy, happy ending

The Silvered, by Tanya Huff I don't remember, but considering it's Tanya Huff, probably everyone's bisexual, high fantasy, happy ending

Into the Broken Lands, by Tanya Huff gay male main character, bisexual side characters, high fantasy, horror elements, mostly happy ending

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T. J. Klune gay male main characters, fairy tale, fantasy, happy ending

Angels in America, by Tony Kushner (play) gay male main characters, play, drama, happy ending

The Last Herald-Mage #1: Magic's Pawn, by Mercedes Lackey The Last Herald-Mage #2: Magic's Promise, by Mercedes Lackey The Last Herald-Mage #3: Magic's Price, by Mercedes Lackey gay male main characters, high fantasy, unhappy ending?

Bergman Brothers #5: Everything For You, by Chloe Liese gay male main characters, sports romance, happy ending

Ash, by Malinda Lo lesbian main character, fairy tale, young adult, I don't remember the ending

So This is Ever After, by F.T. Lukens gay male main characters, young adult, romance, high fantasy, happy ending

Winter's Orbit, by Everina Maxwell gay male main characters, science fiction, unfinished series

Lindsay Gordon Crime Series #6: Hostage to Murder, by V. L. McDermid (Val McDermid) lesbian main character, mystery, happy ending, I haven't read the rest of the series

Trick of the Dark, by Val McDermid lesbian main characters, lesbian side characters, mystery, I don't remember the ending

Iron Council, by China Miéville gay male side character, dystopian fantasy, I don't remember the ending

Hero, by Perry Moore gay male main characters, superheroes, young adult, happy ending

A Land Fit for Heroes #1: The Steel Remains, Richard K. Morgan gay male main character, lesbian main character, high fantasy, I don't remember the ending and I haven't read the sequel

Love & Luck #5: Two Men and a Baby, by Isla Olsen gay male main characters, gale male side characters, romance, happy ending

Captive Prince Series #1: Captive Prince, by C. S. Pacat Captive Prince Series #2: Prince's Gambit, by C. S. Pacat Captive Prince Series #3: Kings Rising, by C. S. Pacat bisexual male main character, gay male main character, bisexual side characters, high fantasy/romance, happy ending

The Monkey's Mask, by Dorothy Porter lesbian main character, bisexual female side character, poetry, mystery, complicated but satisfying ending

Wild Surmise, by Dorothy Porter bisexual female main character, poetry, general fiction, I don't remember the ending

She Drives Me Crazy, by Kelly Quindlen lesbian main characters, lesbian side characters, romance, young adult, happy ending

Cry to Heaven, by Anne Rice bisexual male main character, historical, revenge story, happy ending

The Wolf Gift, by Anne Rice gay male side character, low fantasy, happy ending

The Love Study #2: The Hate Project, by Kris Ripper gay male main characters, gay male side character, genderqueer side character, romance, happy ending

Carry On Series #1: Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell Carry On Series #2: Wayward Son, by Rainbow Rowell bisexual male main character, gay male main character, low fantasy, young adult, everyone is alive and well as of book 2, I haven't read book 3 yet

Get Over It!, by Phillip Scott gay male main characters, mystery, humour, I don't remember the ending

Christopher Marlowe Spy Thriller #1: The Queen's Gold, by Steven Veerapen gay male main character, mystery, spy thriller, historical, unfinished series

Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters lesbian main characters, historical, heist story, happy ending

Tipping the Velvet, by Sarah Waters lesbian main characters, historical, happy ending

Running With Lions, by Julian Winters gay male main characters, gay male side characters, young adult, sports romance, happy ending

The Stone Gods, by Jeanette Winterson lesbian main characters, gay male main characters, ostensibly general fiction but actually more like speculative fiction, implied happy ending

Orlando, by Virginia Woolf bisexual genderqueer main character, historical, I don't remember the ending

C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL COTONIFICIO

 Un evento che intende onorare un momento storico decisivo per l'evoluzione economico-sociale del nostro paese "...un novello stabilimento mosso dalle acque dell'Olona si vide sorgere in Solbiate, e tosto crebbe in guisa che fu il maggiore della Lombardia. E con la nuova del filare, aumentarono ancora l'avita arte del tessere, agli antichi telai a mano aggiungendone molti e molti meccanici"  (Pasolini P.D., Memorie storiche della famiglia Ponti, Galeati, Imola 1876)

Il Comune di Solbiate Olona e la Commissione Biblioteca organizzano in collaborazione con il Gruppo Anziani Solbiatesi ...C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL COTONIFICIO... 23 Agosto 1823: inizia la storia di un avventura cotoniera che trasformerà la vita di un paese 21-22 ottobre 2023: Solbiate olona celebra il Bicentenario di fondazione del Cotonificio "Andrea Ponti" PROGRAMMA Sabato 21 Ottobre ore 16 presso il Centro Anziani di Solbiate Olona  Inaugurazione della mostra documentaria allestita da Aldo Tronconi Presentazione del percorso narrativo "Storia di una industria e di un Paese" a cura di Ivan vaghi, Antonello Colombo, Annamaria Tomasini Domenica 22 Ottobre presso il Centro Socio-culturale di Solbiate Olona Vernissage della collettiva di pittori locali "Spazi e uomini di una industria cotoniera" Proiezione Video "Il Cotonificio di Solbiate 1823-2023" di Filippo D'Angelo con le interviste agli ex lavoratori ORARI DI APERTURA DELLA MOSTRA Domenica 22 ottobre dalle ore 10:00 alle ore 12:00 - dalle ore 15:00 alle ore 18:00 da Lunedì 23 a Venerdì 26 ottobre dalle ore 15:00 alle ore 18:00 Sabato 28 e domenica 29 ottobre dalle ore 10:00 alle ore 12:00 - dalle ore 15:00 alle ore 18:00 NOTE Il 23 agosto 1823 è una data importante per Solbiate Olona: "Si è principiato a lavorare il Cottone a Solbiate" scriveva il contabile della sede di Gallarate del Cotonificio di Solbiate. L'opificio sorse sull'area dei due mulini ad opera di Andrea Ponti, già industriale a Gallarate. La fabbrica occupò sin dall'inizio 153 operai di cui 12 donne. Ben presto la filatura si sviluppò: Cesare Cantù in "Illustrazione italiana del Lombardo-Veneto" del 1854 all'art. Solbiate Olona scrive: "Rimarchevole è la filatura della ditta Ponti, la più vasta che esista in lombardia e che occupa oltre 400 persone. Essa è illuminata a gas e contiene molti telai meccanici ed una vasta tintoria". Nel 1890 per interessamento di Andrea Ponti, la popolazione aumentata a 620 abitanti ebbe i primi servizi sociali: l'asilo e la scuola elementare fino alla terza classe. La lenta trasformazione del paese da eminentemente agricolo ad agricolo-industriale continuò. La popolazione aumentò sensibilmente tanto che nel 1913 a Solbiate gli abitanti erano 2350. Nel 2014 alla guida del Cotonificio ci furono uomini di grande valore come Federico ed Alfredo Tobler che sostituirono ettore Ponti, divenuto Senatore del regno: già da quel periodo i prodotti marca Gallo furono molto apprezzati. "In occasione del Centenario del Cotonificio fu iniziata la costruzione delle case operaie e donato al Comune il terreno per un nuovo e più grande Cimitero. Fu l'inizio di un periodo d'oro per il paese che, unico nella zona, aveva strade asfaltate, un centro sportivo ricreativo (il dopo-lavoro) con campi da tennis, gioco delle bocce, pista per corse, sala da ballo". (tratto da "Socio-Storia di Solbiate Olona", a cura delle insegnanti Sandra Sartori Colombo e Gianna Limido Bellancini delle classi 3^B e 3^C, Anno scolastico 1975/76)

I just read City of Vengeance by D.V. Bishop and all I want is for Cesare Aldo and Saul Orvieto to make up and have a sweet romance

Ieri ho letto la considerazione di un filosofo [Emil Cioran] che rimpiangeva il tempo trascorso in "conversazioni insipide",

affermando che avrebbe potuto impiegarlo meglio imparando il cinese o il sanscrito. Tu, invece, non hai mai definito insipida una conversazione: non assumi un atteggiamento di sufficienza e chiusura, neppure per vezzo. E sai perché, secondo me, niente nella tua vita è "insipido"? Perché il sale sei tu, sei tu stesso il sapore della vita, intesa come ininterrotta osservazione e pensiero.

In una letterina a Ranieri, la tua adorata Fanny Targioni-Tozzetti si definiva "insulsa", invece tu vedevi in lei meraviglie: l'hai quasi deificata e trasferita nel nostro immaginario come una donna sensualissima che con un solo bacio avrebbe risolto la tua vita: tu sei "il sale della terra"...

Tu vedi negli altri delle bellissime qualità, perché hai uno sguardo vivido e un cuore buono. Tu esalti il valore della realtà. Per questo è oltremodo piacevole stare con te.

Avversando una pletora di critici e di giornalisti che addirittura te lo fanno rinnegare, a me piace moltissimo il tuo canto "Consalvo", perché in esso dici delle cose "normali": parli di come ti fa sentire l'amore, senza eccessive sovrastrutture filosofiche. Immagini che Fanny ti baci, e per quel bacio consideri la tua vita non vissuta inutilmente; vorresti un amore lungo e tranquillo e accetteresti serenamente la vecchiaia; quel bacio cambia tutta la tua visione della vita e della morte. Che dolcezza, che semplicità! Esprimi un amore "sano", equilibrato, "normale". Nel "Consalvo" dai un saggio di come sarebbe stato Leopardi se fosse stato amato.

Pensa che uno psichiatra [Mariano Luigi Patrizi], in uno studio su di te, ha asserito che tu, se ricambiato, saresti stato "tirannico" con la tua donna. Evidentemente non ha capito niente di te.

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Posso descrivermi fisicamente?

Ho i capelli lisci castani, gli occhi castani scuri, la pelle chiara, sono alta 1,64 m, porto la taglia italiana 42-44, non sono grassa né magra, ho il viso rotondetto con una particolarità che mi accomuna a te, ovvero la parte centrale del viso (zigomi e naso) più avanzata rispetto al resto del volto: si chiama "prognatismo alveolare", l'ho letto in un trattato di Cesare Lombroso. Se mi avessi vista, forse avresti detto anche di me che sono bella. Di solito, quando si vede una persona simile a sé, almeno per qualche particolare, la si ritiene bella. Ho il naso simile al tuo, ma in miniatura; il tuo è ovviamente più grande perché è un naso maschile. Se ti piacciono le statue delle dee classiche, purtroppo io non sono come loro; ma se ti piace il tuo volto, ti piacerà anche il mio.

Ho appena scoperto che tu, a 18 anni, nel 1816, hai predetto l'avvento dell'arte cinematografica, nonché la poesia di Aldo Palazzeschi fatta di suoni onomatopeici. E questo non lo dice nessuno storico della letteratura, l'ho scoperto io leggendo un tuo scritto. Tu non sei un uomo dell'800, sei un uomo di tutte le epoche: nella tua immaginazione c'erano frammenti di tutte le epoche a venire.

A te non andava mai bene niente.

Mi spiego: eri critico su tutto, tranne su ciò che possiede bellezza e valore essenziali e fondamentali, come la classicità, con l'eroismo e le altre sue virtù, l'antichità primigenia, la natura non modificata dall'uomo. Giudichi persino il cinema, che immagini, "una diavoleria". A me, questo tuo ipercriticismo e il tuo saper discernere, nel gran caos, ciò che è essenziale, connaturato all'uomo e a lui veramente utile, piace moltissimo. Credo che avresti da ridire su tutto, ma sempre con una saggezza che non è cattiveria, anzi è profonda bontà, e mi piacerebbe ascoltare i tuoi pareri, che mi manterrebbero viva e mi divertirebbero. Un famoso intellettuale, Umberto Eco, scrisse che probabilmente tu avresti pareri banali sull'attualità: niente di più inverosimile, secondo me. Credo che Eco, per quanto fosse coltissimo e ti avesse studiato, non si fosse connesso, emotivamente, con il tuo spirito. E quando non c'è connessione emotiva, non c'è vera comprensione.

Io mi piaccio. Quando mi guardo allo specchio, vedo che il mio volto esprime la mia interiorità, è in armonia con essa. Ricordo che un ragazzo che mi piaceva e che non mi ricambiava, mi suggerì ironicamente di gettarmi da uno scoglio denominato "degli innamorati infelici". Un po' come fece Saffo dalla rupe di Leucade. Questo ragazzo era quasi arrabbiato perché ero innamorata di lui.

L'innamoramento non ricambiato è una sorta d'inimicizia.

Quando passa, si fa intimamente pace con quella persona dalla quale volevamo qualcosa che non era in grado di darci. Quando guardo le sue foto e ricordo che lo trovavo bello, penso che dovevo essere sotto l'influsso di una qualche forma di pazzia.

515) Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, Narodowa Partia Faszystowska – utworzona w listopadzie 1921 roku przez Benito Mussoliniego, włoska partia faszystowska. Partia zaprzestała działalności wraz ze śmiercią Mussoliniego i upadkiem Włoskiej Republiki Socjalnej. Określała się jako prawicowa. Założona w Rzymie 9 listopada 1921, była efektem transformacji, jaką przeszły paramilitarne formacje Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, w kierunku struktur bardziej koherentnych (Fasci zostało założone przez Mussoliniego w Mediolanie, na Piazza San Sepolcro 23 marca 1919 roku). PNF była instrumentem popularyzacji ideologii Mussoliniego. Była też głównym uczestnikiem zamachu stanu z 28 października 1922 roku, znanego jako Marsz na Rzym, który zakończył się porozumieniem pomiędzy królem Wiktorem Emanuelem III a Mussolinim (który został premierem). Po drastycznej modyfikacji prawa wyborczego (tzw. prawo Acerbo), PNF zwyciężyła w bardzo kontrowersyjnych wyborach z kwietnia 1924 roku. Ustawa przegłosowana w 1928 r. sprawiła natomiast, iż PNF stała się jedyną legalnie działającą partią polityczną we Włoszech. Sytuacja taka miała miejsce do 1943 roku. W latach 1920–1930 partia prowadziła tzw. włoskie batalie gospodarcze. Partia ta została rozwiązana po aresztowaniu Mussoliniego po wewnętrznym przewrocie w łonie Wielkiej Rady Faszystowskiej (pod przywództwem Dino Grandiego), który miał miejsce 24 lipca 1943 roku. Działalność PNF została oficjalnie zakazana przez rząd Pietro Badoglio 27 lipca tegoż roku. Po uwolnieniu przez nazistów Mussoliniego we wrześniu 1943 r., partia została ponownie utworzona, tym razem pod nazwą Republikańska Partia Faszystowska (Partito Fascista Repubblicano – PFR, powstała 13 września). Była to jedyna legalnie działająca partia w marionetkowej Włoskiej Republice Socjalnej. Jej sekretarzem był Alessandro Pavolini. PFR nie przetrwała egzekucji Mussoliniego i zlikwidowania Włoskiej Republiki Socjalnej w kwietniu 1945 r. Obecnie jest jedyną partią polityczną, której działalność jest oficjalnie zabroniona w konstytucji Włoch.

Sekretarze PNF:

Michele Bianchi (listopad 1921 – styczeń 1923)

brak jednego przywódcy (styczeń 1923 – październik 1923) - „triumwirat”: Michele Bianchi, Nicola Sansanelli, Giuseppe Bastianini

Francesco Giunta (15 października 1923 – 22 kwietnia 1924)

brak jednego przywódcy (23 kwietnia 1924 – 15 lutego 1925) - „Quattuorvirate”: Roberto Forges Davanzati, Cesare Rossi, Giovanni Marinelli, Alessandro Melchiorri

Roberto Farinacci (15 lutego 1925 – 30 marca 1926)

Augusto Turati (30 marca 1926 – 7 października 1930)

Giovanni Giuriati (październik 1930 – grudzień 1931)

Achille Starace (grudzień 1931 – 31 października 1939)

Ettore Muti (31 października 1939 – 30 października 1940)

Adelchi Serena (30 października 1940 – 26 grudnia 1941)

Aldo Vidussoni (26 grudnia 1941 – 19 kwietnia 1943)

Carlo Scorza (19 kwietnia 1943 – 25 lipca 1943).

Who's your favorite (non-Napoleonic) historical bastard?

oh I am always chuffed to talk about non-Napoleonic historical stuff.

There are quite a few that I like, but at the moment I’ve going to have to go with Girolamo Cardano—physician, astrologer, inventor, and mathematician in 16th century Italy (that classic early modern polymath).

Born in Pavia in 1501 Cardano was raised primarily in Milan and went back and forth teaching whereever he could before settling in Saccolongo with his wife. Since he was an illegitimate son he couldn’t gain entrance to the college of physicians in Milan, which was his dream, and so sufficed with giving lectures privately and practicing medicine, initially locally, then he managed to snag a good patron and his life took a major upturn at that point.

He made great contributions to the field of algebra and astronomy. He was incredibly prolific and wrote a huge swath of books on every topic imaginable. One of his books, On Subtlety, also prompted the longest, most vitriolic book reviews in history wherein a rival (Julius Caesar Scaliger) wrote 900 page takedown of Cardano’s thesis. Line by fucking line.

I’m not sure Scaliger caught the irony in this.

Cardano was very in-your-face, didn’t brook fools, and tended to say the quiet part loud which makes him amazing to read about but not so pleasant in-person. This earned him quite a few enemies (they’d shark students from him, ruin his lectures, spread rumours etc.) and they really did do a doozey to his prospects from time to time.

He wrote this great memoir called The Book of My Life which presents a very gloves off look at his life (though it does have its classic embellishments and so on that were common for the time).

From the intro of the version I have:

Cardano's multiple self-portraits fascinated and alarmed the readers who scrutinized them, from the censors in the Holy Office to magicians in Germany and England. In this age of religious war and intellectual intolerance, courtly service providers like Cardano endured constant scrutiny, much of it hostile, from patrons and rivals alike. Safety lay in absolute reticence.

Yet, Cardano astonished—and horrified—readers by his frankness. He confessed in public that he had enjoyed the advice and visits of a familiar spirit—and that he had suffered years of sexual impotence despite his best efforts, that he lurched like an archetypical silly professor when he walked, and even that his servants took advantage of him.

No wonder many readers—including Cardano’s first editor, Naude, and the great criminologist Cesare Lombroso—have been convinced that Cardano was mad, while others wondered if a devil had possessed him. The Book of My Life challenges, provokes, and amazes, even now.

A ocuple excerpts from the memoir itself:

Timid of spirit, I am cold of heart, warm of brain, and given to never-ending meditation; I ponder over ideas, many and weighty, and even over things which can never come to pass. I am able to admit two distinct trains of thought to my mind at the same time.

[...]

Truly the cause of a great part of my misery was the stupidity of my sons, connected as it was with actual shame, the folly of my kinsfolk, and the jealousy existing among them, which was a vice peculiar to our family.

One of his sons (Giovanni) poisoned his own wife after discovering all three of their children weren’t his. The second son, Aldo, was disinherited by Girolamo after Aldo stole from him to feed his clearly intense gambling addiction.

Among the things which please me greatly are stilettos, or stili for writing, for them I have spent more than twenty gold crowns, and much money besides for other sorts of pens. […] Besides these, I take great pleasure in gems, in metal bowls, in vessels of copper or silver, in painted glass globes and in rare books.

I enjoy swimming a little and fishing very much. I was devoted to the art of angling as long as I remained at Pavia and I am sorry I ever changed.

The reading of history gives me extraordinary satisfaction, as well as readings in philosophy, in Aristotle and Plotinus, and the study of treatises on the revelations of mysteries, and especially treatises on medical questions.

In the Italian poets, Petrarch and Luigi Pulci, I find great delight. I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men—although the sum total of men’s learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

Anyway—there you go! Girolamo Cardano in a nutshell. He’s an interesting figure and I didn’t even scratch the surface, definitely well worth checking out if the early modern period is of interest.

Thank you so much for the ask!

Cose che non posso più vedere/sentire da quando ho rotto con il mio ex:

• Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo,

• Cesare Cremonini,

• Macchine d'epoca e storiche,

• Persone ciniche,

• Brunori Sas

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