Category Archives: Italic

Listen with the Will to Learn

Listen with the will to learn, Unarine Ramaru.For the Heart to Heart project calendar.Décoration lifted from Rudolf Koch’s manuscript the Gospel of Saint Luke at the Klingspor Institute, Offenbach.

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Cicero’s De Orationis

After seeing the exhibit “The Invention of the Renaissance” at the BNF, and the work of the humanist Petrarch I wanted to write out a quote by one of his favorite Roman writers, Cicero. Philippe Dabasse, of Barbedor Paris, inspired … Continue reading

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En Paz

Until a friend asked me to copy this poem, I had never heard of the Mexican modernist poet Amado Nervo. His poem expresses Nervo’s feelings about his life and how fairly it has treated him.

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