Louis Gallait - Tasso in the Prison
Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1580), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. He suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe.
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This is none other than Minna Salami, a.k.a. Ms. Afropolitan (you may remember her from our tweetversation about African feminisms) as the iconic Frida Kahlo. (© Bumi Thomas Photography).
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Agostino Brunias, Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a West Indian Landscape, late eighteenth century, oil on canvas (detail), from Carolyn Arena’s blog post for The Appendix: “Bellette and Yarico: Working Women in the Colonial West Indies.”
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Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft
The fact that this is STILL relevant should be very telling.
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Sergio Zevallos and Grupo Chaclacayo
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Lima, Peru
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I wish you’d take me to Europe with you. Perhaps in another land, we’d find the peace we desperately want together.