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Giulia Zornetta
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assistant professor in Medieval History at DiSSGeA - University of Padova / editor at Reti Medievali and I Quaderni del Maes
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Greetings, new 18th-century and Material Culture pals! I offer to you my favorite (non-gravestone) 18th-century artifact:

Staffordshire teapot (ca.1760-65) from the Met

bonus: it was once owned by a guy named Cecil, Lord Revelstoke, which is a great #romance name

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 11, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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#OtD 9 Dec 1984 Mexican revolutionary, Amelio Robles Ávila, died aged 95. Assigned female at birth, he later lived as a man, joining Zapata's army, taking part in battles, extorting capitalists and threatening those who misgendered him. Learn more: www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Ivory, wood, stone, and bronze...
Works from Pisa Cathedral, its furnishings, and treasury in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Pisa
December 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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“Stranger Things” is the latest show to offer Easter eggs for viewers who try to call a fictional character. If you call the number, it really does sound like you have reached through time, space and the barrier between fiction and fact.
When the Phone Number in That TV Show Actually Connects Somewhere
Passing on the classic 555 number, “Stranger Things” is the latest show to offer Easter eggs for viewers who try to call a fictional character.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Read more about the problem in

Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.

Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cima da Conegliano (1491-92), Pietà

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Palma il Vecchio (1525-30), Madonna con il Bambino e santi

Bonifacio Veronese (1527-28), Coppia di amanti

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Racconta Ismaele”

Chora Media / Palazzo ducale di Genova
podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/f...
Racconta Ismaele - Trailer
Puntata podcast · Fuori Da Qui · Trailer · 3 min
podcasts.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Rocco Marconi (1515-1520), Cristo e l’adultera

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Paz Vega (2024), Rita

youtu.be/DoErhpVhbvc?...
Rita (2024) Trailer
YouTube video by The Midnight Selections
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Giovanni Bellini & Vittore Belliniano (1525-1531), Martirio di San Marco

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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This insightful Essay details the ways that maternal standards were engineered more than a century ago by Victorian-era experts as a way to control not just children’s development, but women’s bodies, choices and lives
How ‘scientific motherhood’ polices and subjugates women | Aeon Essays
‘Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system designed to police women
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Giovanni Mansueti & Paris Bourdon (1525-1531), Tre episodi della vita di San Marco

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Giovanni Mansueti (1518), Guarigione di Aniano

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
« The quick-fix nature of current Generative AI tools is undeniably useful, yet it also reflects today’s shortcut culture, tempting us to bypass the kind of painful intellectual work that produces truly original and deep thoughts »

girardin.medium.com/writing-with...
Writing with Probabilistic Machines
My practice of writing to think in the era of Generative AI
girardin.medium.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Paolo Veronese (1565-70), Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Paolo Veronese (1573), Convito in casa di Levi

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
gli stati uniti invece dimostrano ogni giorno di stare alla grandissima:

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump administration says Europe faces 'civilisational erasure'
European politicians have begun to react, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need "outside advice".
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Paolo Veronese (1572-73), Allegoria della battaglia di Lepanto

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Hyeronimus Bosch (1495-1505), Martirio di santa Wilgefortis

Gallerie dell’Accademia #Venezia
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM