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Did Shakespeare write the plays attributed to him? Yes. Source: John Taylor / Public Domain.
20 NOV 2024 · 6 MIN

The Shakespeare Authorship Question: Snobbery and Wishful Thinking

Shakespeare was a genius. His plots may have been stolen, his knowledge of the worlds about which he wrote flawed and incomplete, but his poetry and his genius as a weaver of…
Looking good: Castiglione based his ideas of the ideal courtier on his experiences in the court of Urbino during the high Renaissance. Source: Raphael / Public Domain.
20 SEP 2024 · 6 MIN

Baldassare Castiglione: The Courtier, Perfected

The term “Renaissance Man” is a reasonably well known one, which draws a pretty wide set of definitions but which basically refers to someone who is accomplished in multiple fields seen as…
The Voynich Manuscript is filled with text, diagrams and illustrations, but to date not a single word has been deciphered. Source: Unknown Author / Public Domain.
20 AUG 2024 · 5 MIN

The Voynich Manuscript: Never to be Deciphered?

In 1912 a Polish book dealer came across a manuscript which, at first glance, did not seem to be that out of the ordinary. Composed of roughly 240 pages of vellum, it…