tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post1385695012743236121..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: From vision to vision in RavennaDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-78444120012837584862018-08-08T15:34:53.457+01:002018-08-08T15:34:53.457+01:00I am glad for all your photos—which, by the way, a...I am glad for all your photos—which, by the way, are my introduction to Ravenna. Your “vision to vision” descriptor is exactly right. Susan Scheidhttps://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-27695706661341592982018-08-06T16:32:13.202+01:002018-08-06T16:32:13.202+01:00Will - it is indeed, as Geraldine writes, 'as ...Will - it is indeed, as Geraldine writes, 'as nice a story as you could imagine', and somehow underlines what I sensed, from a superficial visit, about the Ravenati. And isn't that one of the best things, if not THE best, about blogging? My post about my paternal grandfather opened up all sorts of avenues of which I could not have dreamed. Even if it did mean finding out we're not really Nices at all!<br /><br />Sue - I don't have any strong inclination to return. Whereas the TV adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End made me feel I might have been wrong in not warming to that in my teens.<br /><br />I know, there are way too many photos. But what the hell...there is little man-made on earth more exquisite than some of those mosaics...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-12674448049345013352018-08-06T00:29:47.674+01:002018-08-06T00:29:47.674+01:00I’m dazzled by the spectacular array of photograph...I’m dazzled by the spectacular array of photographs, beyond able to take it all in. I am glad to know you had trouble with Wolf Solent. Friends of ours from long ago bought and lived in the house in Hillsdale where Powys wrote it. We had no idea at all of the author or the book. Thereafter, I gave a shot at reading it, but quickly failed.Susan Scheidhttps://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-41022375728028150232018-08-05T22:16:17.533+01:002018-08-05T22:16:17.533+01:00Many thanks for taking back to a city that I spent...Many thanks for taking back to a city that I spent five days exploring and still did not see enough off. As always you proved a wonderful tour guide.<br /><br />Did you happen to see the modern mosaic at Porta Adriana. Back in 2011 I wrote a short piece with some photos of it:<br /><br />https://willyorwonthe.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/memories-of-ravenna-a-modern-mosaic/<br /><br />I wondered out loud what it meant and low and behold in 2014 received an email from a lady in Ireland explaining it all to me.<br /><br />https://willyorwonthe.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/a-mystery-solved/Willymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652532356102638621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-53188342206620400802018-08-05T09:27:15.936+01:002018-08-05T09:27:15.936+01:00A joy to read. Now I feel entitled to demand that ...A joy to read. Now I feel entitled to demand that all travel guides on Ravenna out there be rewritten in your “voice”. Annanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-19290250506999998772018-08-05T07:24:26.556+01:002018-08-05T07:24:26.556+01:00Of course you may, cicerona! I'm honoured.Of course you may, cicerona! I'm honoured.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-66545464913202712492018-08-05T07:23:41.087+01:002018-08-05T07:23:41.087+01:00I've just read this amazing blog about Ravenna...I've just read this amazing blog about Ravenna: I am stunned! Can I link your blog to my web-site, http://www.guide-ravenna.com/en/ ?<br /><br />MyHumus.com, to which you've linked, is one the web-sites that advertises my three books: 'Una Pigna per Ravenna 'and 'Una Pigna tira l'altra' (two illustrated guide-books for children); the last one is 'Il Cammino delle Pigne'(The Pinecone Route) about the symbolism of one of the oldest archetypes in the world !<br /><br />Concerning 'Cicerona', I graduated in applied linguistics, so I like neologisms...Silvia Tognihttp://www.guide-ravenna.com/en/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-40744408778390172652018-08-04T11:17:12.985+01:002018-08-04T11:17:12.985+01:00Yes I have visited Ravenna ( and Aachen) But I was...Yes I have visited Ravenna ( and Aachen) But I was not aware of Theodoric ( but maybe I read about him in Gibbon and had forgotten). <br /><br />As for my comment on the Arian heresy, I made it in the same spirit as Waugh at the end of the other Decline and Fall.<br /><br />"So the ascetic Ebionites used to turn towards Jerusalem when they prayed. Paul made a note of it. Quite right to suppress them "<br /><br />David Damantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-1638722828253621762018-08-04T09:20:12.647+01:002018-08-04T09:20:12.647+01:00Thanks for more background - I find it all fascina...Thanks for more background - I find it all fascinating, and want to read more about the Ravenati's beloved Theodoric, about whom all sorts of local legends have arisen. Why 'quite rightly', though? Who was right and who wrong? And the answer to your question is - not at all (Shiites and Sunnis, to take but one example over a bigger divergence of 'ideas').<br /><br />Have you been to Ravenna? Surely one of the wonders of the world.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-64673811772067448102018-08-04T06:27:55.764+01:002018-08-04T06:27:55.764+01:00Arius was an amazing figure. His claim was that Go...Arius was an amazing figure. His claim was that God the Son had a secondary position as compared with God the Father. No one put it better than Gibbon .....<br /><br />"Although Christ had existed for a time compared with which the longest of astronomical periods was as but a fleeting moment, nevertheless there had been a time when he did not exist; and although he now sat on his throne in all his effulgent glory, and saw at an infinite distance beneath his feet the thrones of the brightest archangels, nevertheless his light was a light reflected from God the Father, as the light of the Augustus is reflected on the Caesar."<br /><br /> This view was, of course, quite rightly rejected at the Council of Nicea in 325,presided over by the Emperor in person, and hence the Nicene creed which we recite to this day, and which refers to another aspect of the matter. The obvious question arose in the concept of the Trinity - was the Son of the same substance of the Father, or of similar substance? The difference in the Greek words for these two alternatives is only an iota, but the Blues and the Greens killed each other on the streets of Constantinople in defence or denial of the iota. Since then we have grown up - or have we?David Damantnoreply@blogger.com