Cacciaguida

Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st.

Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff.


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"Too modest" -- Elinor Dashwood

"Perhaps the wisest man on the Web" -- Henry Dieterich

"Hat tip: me (but really Cacciaguida)" -- Diana Feygin, Editor, THE YALE FREE PRESS

"You are my sire. You give me confidence to speak. You raise my heart so high that I am no more I." -- Dante

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Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII.


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Thursday, July 17, 2008
 
Usually I put something up on this blog to mark July 20, the anniversary of the failed but valiant attempt on Hitler's life by a group of German army officers, senior politicians, and diplomats, most of them ennobled in Germany's ancient social hierarchy even before they became so in deed, and all of whom paid dearly.

But as I will most likely be out of blog-range on the 20th this year, I'll just send flowers: