on the way up Monte Epomeo, Ischiathe view from the top : Vesuvius at far left horizon, Sorrento uplands, Capri (click for larger image)
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Mandrakes, in Dioscorides (ca. 590), Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Ms. Vind. Gr. 1
Dante Alighieri, La Commedia, [Napoli 12 IV 1477], Biblioteca Nazionale di NapoliP. Francesco Lana, La Nave volante, dissertazione, [S.l., s.d., post 1470], Biblioteca dei Girolamini Coll. C F 3 19
Giacomo Leopardi, manuscript poem, L’Infinito, (1819), Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, M.S. C.L. XIII.22decorative initial (white vine), in Museo Diocesano Salerno MS.9
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Vico room, Biblioteca dei Girolaminithrone with mermaids and gryphons, Reggia Caserte
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fascio ti sfascio : the writing on the wall, Salerno
with Rudy Rucker, while packing his archive for delivery to the Eaton Collection, Rivera Library, University of California at Riverside (mid-June) [Photo by Sylvia Rucker]palm trees in an undisclosed location (mid-June)Diana (1893) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, newly regilt, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (16 June)on the Feather river, Plumas county, California (late June)on Hampstead Heath (late July)Stanbury, near Haworth, Yorkshire (late July)the reason for the visit : A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë, 1829, is now in the Bronte Parsonage Museumat The Hawthorn, after delivery of A Book of Ryhmes on Yorkshire Day (1 August)