Middleton!

[poliphilo]

Thomas Middleton is the man!

I just added him to my list of interests and thought, as a wheeze, I'd go visit the rest of you who list him.

And guess what? You're all of you brilliant!

So, if I've just friended you out of nowhere, blame Tom.

P.S. Hengist, King of Kent features political cynicism to die for, some very off-colour sex, a lot of murder, some ripe low comedy (and puritan-baiting) and winds up with the anti-heroine getting burned to death on stage. I'd love to see it acted.

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[hardrada.livejournal.com]

By an extraordinary coincidence, I've just come back from a weekend in Florence, inspired by the story of the Medici, and I've come back with another obsession: Caravaggio. Also on your list of interests.

Great minds clearly think alike. If "great" is the right word!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a long time since I was last in Florence. Twenty five years, maybe.

You saw the exhibition of late Caravaggios in London last year? Wonderful- and deeply moving.

I'll accept "great". It would be churlish to do otherwise.