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The Vatican’s Latinist - On the Career of Reginald Foster excerpt: In 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promisi

Historical tangent: 600 years earlier … Poggio Bracciolini served a total of seven popes - from 1389 to 1455: Boniface IX , Innocent VII, Gregory XII, Antipope John XXIII, Martin V, Eugenius IV, and Nicholas V. Poggio

De Rerum Natura … c. 55 BC … On the Nature of Things … Lucretius

De Rerum Natura - full Latin text

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LATINITATIS CORPUS - website of Reginald Foster

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link to 10 videos - 4 min. each - from LatinPerDiem

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Below each index page image is a single word which gives a hint to the subject on that webpage.

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Clicking on any index page image opens a webpage, which most often contains an illustrated 1,000 word essay and an image collection. External links are provided to offer in-depth discussion of the subject.

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primary webpage: seeing

secondary webpage: marrow

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“Whenever I discovered something which was noteworthy,

I have felt it my duty to put down what I had discovered,

in order that it would become known to the educated world.”

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

… see: microscope

“Sharing knowledge is the the greatest of all callings.

There is nothing like it in the land".”

The Instruction of Dua-Khety

… to his son, as he entered scribe school c. 2000 BC, Egypt - Middle Kingdom

… see: seeing

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