his blood that my hunger convinced me was sweet

Belmonte Calabro, Calabria, Italy

Photos by @carlo_audino

• Riding habit jacket.

Date: 1790's

If I Could Sleep Deeply Enough: Poems, “Insomniac’s Prayer” by Vassar Miller

Anatomy of a serpent. Rand, McNally & co.’s encyclopedia and gazetteer. 1889.

Flintlock Pistol, 1670, Art Institute of Chicago: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance

George F. Harding Collection Size: L. 48 cm (18 7/8 in.) Barrel L. 30.8 cm (12 1/8 in.) Wt. 1 lb. 12 oz. Caliber .52 Medium: Steel, iron, and walnut

The “Bohemian” or “Palatine” crown: gold, enamel, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, diamonds, pearls; height 18 cm, diam. 18 cm), western Europe, around 1370-80. It is composed of 12 freestanding stylized lilies set on a hinged ring.

The only surviving crown from medieval England. All the rest were melted down in the English Civil War in the 17th century.

The crown is recorded in England in a list of jewels and plate drawn up in 1399. It probably belonged to King Edward III or Anne of Bohemia, the wife of King Richard II, who was deposed that year by Henry IV. Henry’s daughter, Princess Blanche, married the Palatine Elector Ludwig III in 1402 and the crown passed to the Palatine Treasury in Heidelberg as part of her dowry.