Lanternativa

Compus de Mihail Psellos (sec. XI).
[Traducere de Andrew White & Przemyslaw Marciniak.]

Drunkenness, Drink and Dance, Jacob, it‘s your festival!
Clapping with your buddies, pleasures, delights,
Boogieing with cymbals, squeezing out those bunches,
Wine-trodden grapes, bellies filled with jugs‘ worth!
Longing for luxuries, Jacob, you spurned
Every single ascetic practice, moderation for starters,
Then sleeping on the ground, heavy training,
Prayer and tears [...]

Francesco Traiani - The Triumph of Thomas Aquinas (1340)
Toma, figura pe care o venerezi sau o scuipi. Nu o poti iubi, evident. Nici ignora. Ca esti oriental sau occidental, te lovesti de el. Nu ai cum altfel.
Fragment din imnul* compus de Maestrul bizantin Joannes Plousiadenos** in onoarea lui Thomas Aquinas. Interpreteaza corul Cappella Romana:

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* Aflat [...]

Pavel Rajenko (sec. XX)
Numiti si eroii bataliei de la Kulikovo, Cuviosii Alexandru (Peresvet) si Andrei (Oslyabya), ucenici ai Sf. Serghie din Radonej, au parte astazi de un interes crescand in randurile fundamentalistilor crestini ortodocsi.

San Giovanni in Laterano… Astazi, vechea catedrala constantiniana, construita in sec. IV, mai pastreaza putin din vechea’i structura austera. Supusa, ca marea majoritate a bisericilor romane, unui proces de “barocizare” intensa, San Giovanni isi dezvaluie cu greu frescele de sec. XIII realizate de Jacopo Torriti si franciscanul Jacopo da Camerino, asistentul sau. Despre viata celor [...]

The frescoes decorating the central apse of the church of Santa Maria foris portas constitute the finest early medieval pictorial cycle in terms of artistic quality, and are considered unique in early medieval European art.
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