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Writing the Renaissance

Writing the Renaissance

http://www.writingren.blogspot.com

An agented author discusses the history and personalities of sixteenth-century France, as well as the joys and challenges of writing historical fiction.

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  • Sixteenth Century Quote of the Week

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 12:35 in quotation, charles v

    "Wherefore are you, good men of letters, so little susceptible of shame, as always to be fostering and inflaming the feelings of jealousy and hatred in the hearts of Princes? Wait at least till we are dead, and then write whatever you please; for ava...

  • Thanksgiving Wishes

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 08:55 in holidays

    Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers! May you all enjoy dear friends, good food, and true gratefulness of heart today. Thank you so much for your interest and support....

  • Sixteenth Century Quote of the Week

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 11:58 in quotation, vives

    "For the first voice the infant hears is its mother's, and attempts to form its first babbling to her speech; for at that age it can do nothing but imitate, and takes its first sense experiences, the first furnishings of mind from what it hears its m...

  • The Plague Battle Continues

    Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 00:32 in medicine

    [This post is a continuation of the documented description of the plague epidemic in Chalons-sur-Saône in 1578-79. The first installment can be read here.]The town of Chalons-sur-Saône made an admirable civic effort to curb the spread of the plague...

  • Sixteenth Century Quote of the Week

    Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 02:00 in sidney, quotation

    "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write."Sir Philip Sydney (1554-1586), British poet and courtierAstrophel and Stella (1581), Sonnet 1...

  • Sixteenth Century Records in St. Augustine, Florida

    Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 22:15

    Twenty-six years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Gabriel Hernandez, a Spanish soldier, married Catalina de Valdez in St. Augustine, Florida. The record of their marriage, handwritten by Father Diego Escobar de Sambrana and dated 1594, is...

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Melisende

5 stars Melisende

Love the blog Julianne - a nice stroll through the renaissance without ever leaving home. Keep posting those interesting articles.

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