dolce far niente

Flåm, Norway

Doors at the Allegheny Cemetery

Immoral Tales (1973) | dir. Walerian Borowczyk

Newquay, United Kingdom by George Hiles

Bordighera

Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon

Jupiter’s Magnificent Swirling Clouds by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆

Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 B.C.). Flaubert’s principal  source was Book I of Polybius’s Histories. The novel was enormously popular when first published and jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic’s conflict with the North African Phoenician colony of Carthage.