☿ Yet even when the demons’ prophets are instructed by the demons, they foretell the truth, sometimes by virtue of their own nature, the author of which is the Holy Ghost, and sometimes by revelation of the good spirits, as Augustine declares: so that even then this truth which the demons
Fool ☾ Dearest ladies, I find myself faced with the task of having to recount an actual occurrence which sounds much more like an invention than it really was… — Boccaccio, The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, trans. Mark Musa, 3.8, p.255. The Italian is: “Carissime donne, a me si para
Dedicated to ♄ The real life tower maidens: Margherita Farnese, Isabella di Mora, & Arcangela Tarabotti; ☉ St. Giordano Bruno, martyr, forever ahead of the times; ☾ And the real Matteo dell’Amore— I forgive you. ♄ Kling, klang, gloria. Who sits within this tower? A King's daughter, she sits within, A