CARAVAGGIO
Art Neuendorffer
Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 2
LUCIO: Does BRIDGET paint still, Pompey, ha?
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April 6, 1327, Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura
April 6, 1348, Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
April 6, 1483, RAPHAEL born/christened?
April 6, 1520, RAPHAEL dies on his 37th birthday.
April 6, 1528, DURER dies in Nürnberg
April 6, 1584, CARAVAGGIO apprenticed to painter Simone Peterzano
April 6, 1584, BRIDGET VERE is born.
April 6, 1588, CARAVAGGIO ends apprenticeship to Peterzano
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September 8 => Feastday of St. ADRIAN (patron saint of butchers)
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September 8, 1560, Amy Robsart BREAKS neck at bottom of staircase
September 8, 1573, CARAVAGGIO born
September 8, 1601, Shakespeare's father, John, buried
September 8, 1608, Shakespeare's mother, Mary, dies
September 8, 1611, FORMAN SIMon dies: "An IMPOST, an IMPOST"
September 8, 1644, Francis QUARLES (_Hièroglyphikes_)
buried in the church of *ST. OLAVE* , *silVER* Street
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Simon Forman (doctor to Shakspere's Silver Street landlady and
esteemed astrologer) was the ONLY man ever to leave a written record
(_Booke of Paies_ 1611) of seeing Shakespeare's plays at the Globe.
Schoenbaum, in WS: Records and Images, records that
SIMon FORMAN died on Thursday, September 8, 1611:
<<after dinner, feeling very well, [FORMAN] took a pair of OARS
at Southwark to cross to PUDDLE Dock. While rowing in mid-stream
he collapsed, crying 'An IMPOST, an IMPOST', and died.
A 'most sad' wind storm immediately followed the event.
So FORMAN's friend, the astrologer William LILLY, reports.>>
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Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
<<"During the moment I was silent,Miss Eyre,I was arranging a POINT
with my DESTINY. She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag
like one of those who appeared to MACBETH on the heath of Forres.
'You like THORNfield?' she said, lifting her finger; and then she
wrote in the air a memento, which ran in lurid *HIEROGLYPHICS* >>
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http://www.egyptianmyths.com/ptah.htm
http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0125/01492736_A.html
<<PTAH (ptä), great god of Memphis; created the universe
through the thought of his heart & the utterance of his tongue.
The *HIEROGLYPHS* representing his name meant "sculptor."
Ptah was often portrayed as a BEARDED, BALD male figure
with an ELABORATELY DECORATED NECKCOLLAR.
As master CRAFTsman, he was a patron of METALWORKERS.>>
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metalworker/tinker: SOUTHAMPTON
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PTAH, patron of MASONS
http://www.dermon.com/Ptah.htm
<<The Memphis triad consisted of the universal architect god, PTAH,
patron of *MASONS* , his consort Sekhmet, the lion-headed one
(sometimes Bast the cat goddess), and Nefertum/Imhotep, their son.
As the high god of Memphis, PTAH was declared the master of DESTINY
who imparts to the phenomenal world the character of an established
order, valid for all time. In Abydos, in the temple of SETI I,
he is called 'he who has created MAAT' - that is, divine order.>>
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King John (Folio) 5.7
Iohn. Oh Cozen, thou art come to set mine eye:
[T] he tackle of my HEART, is crack'd and burnt,
[A] nd all the shrowds wherewith my life should saile,
[A] re turned to one thred, one little haire:
[M] y HEART hath one poore string to stay it by,
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<<MAAT: Considered the wife of Thoth & the daughter of Ra by
various traditions, MAAT's name implies "TRUTH" & "justice" and
even "cosmic order". MAAT was represented as a tall woman with
an ostrich feather (the GLYPH for her name) in her hair. She was
present at the judgement of the dead; her feather was balanced
against the HEART of the deceased to determine whether he had led
a pure & honest life.>> - _Notable Egyptian Gods_ Shawn C. Knight
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Art Neuendorffer