And Not to Yield

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Once upon a time (c.1475) the whimsical Will that scripts the Great Scroll of the Cosmos woke up in the morning and decided: Someday centuries from now, when humankind has outgrown the dastardly moustaches of melodrama and moved on to a phase of complex antiheroes, sympathetic villains, and moral ambiguity, I want history teachers to be able to stand at the front of the classroom and say, “Yes, he really did go around dressed all in black wearing a mask and killing people for fun.” Thus Cesare Borgia was conceived. - Inventing the Renaissance (2025) by Ada Palmer

Pazzi Conspiracy mood-board because 15th century Florence is best described as a bunch of complete maniacs shoved onto a tricycle going down hill at top speed with no breaks

Photo by artfolch on Instagram.

Berlin, 2026.

MME (Michelozzo Manic Episode)

Santa Croce, Cappella Pazzi?

And still on the 6th of May, new halberdiers find themselves with the opportunity presented to them they have been trying for in the prior year. This means we just had ourselves plentiful new guards (real and false), and though the first edition of our zine is not(!) so new, it is still a community thriving on the fervour of our passion. Grazie mille, merci villmol, merci beaucoup, engraziel, and most importantly— acriter et fideliter.

From “The Sherborne Missal” (Add MS 74236) c.1399-1407

Alexander Wilbourne Weddell.  Αθήνα. Ο Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός και ο Λόφος του Φιλοπάππου στο βάθος. 

Al-Quds, Palestine | c. 1935

La Grazia (2025)

Masayuki Murai (Japanese, 1947) - Moonlight (2016)

Cross-Shaped Tile. 13th century. Credit line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1941 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/450449

The scene is part of the Greek myth where Danaë and her infant son were cast into the sea in a chest by her father, King Acrisius, who feared a prophecy that his grandson would kill him.