History is filled to overflow with victor's tale of conquest - violence echoes the intrigue of human exchange.
Type as a story teller is not only non-exempt from those wilds and throws we call history, - it is frought with them. It might in fact be a mistake to denegrate it's very nature of being one and the same. Mysteries abound - Yet those cultures and civilizations we know most about today, had the most to say by way of written language. We cannot only lay open the mysteries of the past by studying what was written about it but how it was written.
Is'nt that friggin' cool?
I am a human without neccessarily being a human-ist. I know and even kinda like some who are and some who are the same in sentiment as I am. Reason: - I guess I just don't trust you guys... apologies.(feel free to do somthing lavishly extravagant to restore my faith in you.
But You don't have to be a humanist to harbour a deep appreciation of the Renaissance/humanist movement in our inescapably humanist history. If it's glass is filled to overflow, you can at least drink it down to half full/half empty.
Drink in the largely Italian renaissance movement - I charge ye!- It's a fruity bouquet,a little more bright than sweet,lighter and more vibrant it's mood - a cornucopia of rediscovery!
...probably began with an hombre' called Marco Polo and his ultra-venturesome travels across the semi-known world. To China using the 'Silk Road' he would have legendary encounters, - the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of and would later write about them in a book called Le livre des merveilles.
It is more than possible, that Marco Polo did not know what dragon or giant he had awakenened. Those stories and accounts were slowly divulged over generations in Italia and indeed Europe, written in any number of hands and spoken of in square,granite-columned halls and increasingly vernacular circles. It was a stone thrown and all of Europe would be a pond full of ripples.
Drink in the largely Italian renaissance movement - I charge ye!- It's a fruity bouquet,a little more bright than sweet,lighter and more vibrant it's mood - a cornucopia of rediscovery!
...probably began with an hombre' called Marco Polo and his ultra-venturesome travels across the semi-known world. To China using the 'Silk Road' he would have legendary encounters, - the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of and would later write about them in a book called Le livre des merveilles.
It is more than possible, that Marco Polo did not know what dragon or giant he had awakenened. Those stories and accounts were slowly divulged over generations in Italia and indeed Europe, written in any number of hands and spoken of in square,granite-columned halls and increasingly vernacular circles. It was a stone thrown and all of Europe would be a pond full of ripples.
The education was one of a gradual nature. The world beyond the alps would come crashing in over some centuries, laying waste to any preconcieved ideals concerning the superiority of a nationalistic identity.
The Chinese were written of as being the first to invent and implement block printing. The first actual printing press was devised and in use long before descriptions of it would inspire Europeans. But seeing the genius and economic benefactors of this conceptual wonder from a distant land, would initiate a progression - a ripple in the pond which would affectionately be known as the printing press.
As if in nearly complete parallel, the whole of Italy and residually that of Europe,would begin seeking out their own identity. They would seek to illuminate the former greatness of Rome in all of it's power and glory, - therby laying claim to a history as old and as rich, - as humanistically edifying as that of China itself. It is only fitting that they would look and reach into the annals of artistry to find such legitamacy.
Upon studied review of Polo's disertations, and with a sublime confidence (albiet proportionately unfounded) in the willy-nilly ascertion that the world was actually round, Christopher Columbus would be cajulted into trying an uncharted oceanic voyage to the source of a European awakening. He would find another culture, perhaps equally as interesting in all artistic and cultural respects. He would find...
The New World!
The Chinese were written of as being the first to invent and implement block printing. The first actual printing press was devised and in use long before descriptions of it would inspire Europeans. But seeing the genius and economic benefactors of this conceptual wonder from a distant land, would initiate a progression - a ripple in the pond which would affectionately be known as the printing press.
As if in nearly complete parallel, the whole of Italy and residually that of Europe,would begin seeking out their own identity. They would seek to illuminate the former greatness of Rome in all of it's power and glory, - therby laying claim to a history as old and as rich, - as humanistically edifying as that of China itself. It is only fitting that they would look and reach into the annals of artistry to find such legitamacy.
Upon studied review of Polo's disertations, and with a sublime confidence (albiet proportionately unfounded) in the willy-nilly ascertion that the world was actually round, Christopher Columbus would be cajulted into trying an uncharted oceanic voyage to the source of a European awakening. He would find another culture, perhaps equally as interesting in all artistic and cultural respects. He would find...
The New World!
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