Category Archives: Italy

Seeking Fortunatus

Posted on 18/02/2018 by kcosumano

After posting my most recent entry I began to look more seriously for the “Vita S. Martini” by Venantius Fortunatus in translation. It hasn’t brought much to light. I cannot read medieval Latin, but there is an Italian translation available … Continue reading →

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A Idea of Mine

Posted on 20/05/2016 by kcosumano

I have a confession to make. Beyond all the other things I am doing right now – singing, translating, assisting in a bookselling business – I have a project in mind for the future. I want to put together a … Continue reading →

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Teriolis ≠ Tirol

Posted on 23/01/2015 by Marcellina

Continuing in the looking-up-one-thing-and-finding-the-tip-of-the-iceberg vein, I recently began looking into an assumption I had made a while back — that the name Tirol was derived from the Roman fortress Teriolis (from which the village of Zirl takes its name). It … Continue reading →

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Reading the Tabula Peutingeriana

Posted on 10/09/2014 by Marcellina

The Tabula Peutingeriana is a 13th century copy of a Roman road map from around the 4th or 5th century CE, judging by the place names on it. It is named for Konrad Peutinger, a man of letters from 16th-century … Continue reading →

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Cambodunum – Kempten

Posted on 25/08/2014 by Marcellina

An artist’s rendition of the stone layers of an inside wall in the kleine Therme.   Kempten, in the Allgäu region, is one of Germany’s oldest cities. Earliest mention appears to be by the ancient Greek geographer Strabo, who called … Continue reading →

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Singer Lore: Help For Swollen Vocal Cords

Posted on 23/04/2014 by Marcellina

Inching my way out of this bad cold flu bronchitis, I turned to facebook to ask my professional singer friends for their personal last-ditch remedies when a gig is getting near and the vocal folds are still swollen (and therefor … Continue reading →

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It’s All Related

Posted on 26/03/2014 by Marcellina

And here we tie the two previous posts together with a 15th-century ribbon: Und hier fügen wir die beiden vorherigen Beiträge mit einem Band aus dem 15. Jahrhundert zusammen: Albrecht Dürer, Brenner Road in the Eisack Valley, 1495. Made, as … Continue reading →

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“It’ll Be A Hot Day Today”

Posted on 13/03/2013 by Marcellina

This plaque, found on the stone wall underneath the Golden Roof in Innsbruck’s old town, says: Here, on 25 February 1536, Jakob Hutter, head of the Anabaptists in Tirol, was burned at the stake. Jakob Hutter was born in what … Continue reading →

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KZ Reichenau Revisited

Posted on 22/01/2013 by Marcellina

The event began with an audio recording of of a man named Klaus W., from Hippach (deep in the Ziller Valley), recounting the day the recruiters came to family’s home in the 1940s and said, “one (of you) must go” … Continue reading →

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Cozens in Brixen*

Posted on 15/04/2012 by Marcellina

I had already been toying with the idea of a series of alpine paintings accompanied by photos of the mountains which inspired them, when Paschberg sent me the link to this watercolor by the 18th century British artist John Robert … Continue reading →

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