Thank you, Pierre, for making the material so rich and at the same time accessible in both style and presentation. I agree with many others who suggest that you publish what you have. If you learn something new about the subjects you have covered, you can present additional information in a preface or an appendix to the next volume, or weave it into the chapters of the book.
Below are some comments:
Despite the utter devastation experienced by Florence, or because of it, three of the greatest minds of the Renaissance in the whole world were born in this town or its close vicinity:
Some historians have postulated that Florence was the birthplace of the Renaissance as a result of luck, i.e., because "Great Men" were born there by chance: Leonardo da Vinci
[28], Botticelli
[29] and Michelangelo
[30] were all born in Tuscany.
[31]
Maybe, like the above mentioned quote suggests, the birth of the three of greatest minds of the renaissance was due to sheer luck, or maybe the integration of the viral sequence of the Black Death virus, in the genome of the survivors and their progeny enable a new way of thinking?
Botticelli was born in 1445, Leonardo in 1452 and Michelangelo in 1475. A
contemporary also born in Florence was Niccolò Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527). There are more people from the Florence area who influenced the Italian Renaissance:
Three influential writers born in or around Florence before the Black Death
Giovanni Boccaccio (
UK:
/bəˈkætʃioʊ/,
US:
/boʊˈkɑːtʃ(i)oʊ, bə-/, Italian:
[dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375)
[nb 1] was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of
Petrarch, and
an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese"
[nb 2] and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the
fourteenth century. Some scholars (including
Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works,
thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
His most notable works are The Decameron, a collection of short stories which in the following centuries was a determining element for the Italian literary tradition, especially after
Pietro Bembo elevated the Boccaccian style to a model of Italian prose in the
sixteenth century, and
On Famous Women. He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in
Tuscan vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and
is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot. The influence of Boccaccio's works was not limited to the Italian cultural scene but extended to the rest of Europe, exerting influence on authors such as
Geoffrey Chaucer,
[3] a key figure in
English literature, or later on
Miguel de Cervantes,
Lope de Vega and the Spanish classical theater.
Boccaccio, together with
Dante Alighieri and
Francesco Petrarca, is part of the so-called
"Three Crowns" of Italian literature.[4] He is remembered for being
one of the precursors of humanism, of which he helped lay the foundations in the city of Florence, in conjunction with the activity of his friend and teacher Petrarch.
He was the one who initiated Dante's criticism and philology: Boccaccio devoted himself to copying codices of the
Divine Comedy and was a promoter of Dante's work and figure.
Boccaccio was born in or near Florence:
The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in
Florence or in a village near
Certaldo where his family was from.
[5][6] He was the son of
Florentine merchant
Boccaccino di Chellino and an unknown woman; he was likely born out of wedlock.
[7] Boccaccio's stepmother was called Margherita de' Mardoli.
[8]
Mentioned in the above Wiki, was Dante Alighieri.
Dante Alighieri (Italian:
[ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
[note 1] and often referred to
simply as Dante (
/ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti/,
[2][3] also
US:
/ˈdɑːnti/;
[4] c. 1265 – 14 September 1321), was an Italian
[a] poet, writer and philosopher.
[6] His
Divine Comedy, originally called
Comedìa (modern Italian:
Commedia) and later christened
Divina by
Giovanni Boccaccio,
[7] is widely considered one of the most important poems of the
Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
[8][9]
Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in
Latin, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His
De vulgari eloquentia (
On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the
Tuscan dialect for works such as
The New Life (1295) and
Divine Comedy helped establish the modern-day standardized Italian language.
His work set a precedent that important Italian writers such as Petrarch and Boccaccio would later follow.
Dante was born in Florence.
About his education and influences, the Wiki includes, for example:
Not much is known about Dante's education; he presumably studied at home or in a chapter school attached to a church or monastery in Florence. It is known that he studied
Tuscan poetry and that he admired the compositions of the Bolognese poet
Guido Guinizelli—in
Purgatorio XXVI he characterized him as his "father"—at a time when the
Sicilian School (
Scuola poetica Siciliana), a cultural group from
Sicily, was becoming known in Tuscany.
He also discovered the
Provençal poetry of the
troubadours, such as
Arnaut Daniel, and
the Latin writers of classical antiquity, including Cicero, Ovid and especially Virgil.[21]
Dante's interactions with Beatrice set an example of so-called
courtly love, a phenomenon developed in French and Provençal poetry of prior centuries. Dante's experience of such love was typical, but his expression of it was unique. It was in the name of this love that Dante left his imprint on the
dolce stil novo ("sweet new style", a term that Dante himself coined), and he would join other contemporary poets and writers in exploring never-before-emphasized aspects of love (
Amore). Love for Beatrice (as
Petrarch would express for Laura somewhat differently) would be his reason for writing poetry and for living, together with political passions. In many of his poems, she is depicted as semi-divine, watching over him constantly and providing spiritual instruction, sometimes harshly. When Beatrice died in 1290, Dante sought refuge in Latin literature.
[22] The
Convivio chronicles his having read
Boethius's
De consolatione philosophiae and Cicero's
De Amicitia.
He next dedicated himself to philosophical studies at religious schools like the Dominican one in
Santa Maria Novella. He took part in the disputes that the two principal
mendicant orders (
Franciscan and
Dominican) publicly or indirectly held in Florence, the former explaining the doctrines of the mystics and of St.
Bonaventure, the latter expounding on the theories of St.
Thomas Aquinas.
[19]
Next is Francesco Petrarca:
Francesco Petrarca (Italian:
[franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly
anglicized as
Petrarch (
/ˈpiːtrɑːrk, ˈpɛt-/), was a scholar and poet of early
Renaissance Italy, and
one of the earliest humanists.[1]
Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of
Renaissance humanism.
[2] In the 16th century,
Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of
Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent,
Dante Alighieri.
[3] Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the
Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for
lyrical poetry.
He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages,"[4] which most modern scholars now find misleading and inaccurate.
[5][6][7]
Petrarch was born in Arezzo, 80 km southeast of Florence.
Genes, the Black Death and the Renaissance
There are several comments in this category
What if the real cause of the Renaissance was indeed the Black Death, not so much through the destruction it induced but rather the genetic mutations in the human genome induced by the virus?
One influence are the genes, but the soul is also there:
October 7, 1995 Frank, Laura, SV, Nova M [The tape from this session was destroyed and this is the best reconstruction possible from the notes. The answers are exactly as given, but the questions are as close as I can remember them. The ones I do not remember are left blank.] A: Hello. Q...
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Q: (L) But isn't the nature of a person determined by their soul and not the physical body?
A: Partially, remember, aural profile and karmic reference merges with physical structure.
Q: (L) So you are saying that particular genetic conditions are a physical reflection of a spiritual orientation? That the soul must match itself to the genetics, even if only in potential?
A: Yes, precisely.
Q: (L) So a person's potential for spiritual advancement or unfoldment is, to a great extent, dependent upon their genes?
A: Natural process marries with systematic construct when present.
Did suffering survivors of the Black Death turn on their DNA in a new way?
Besides DNA changes as a result of viruses, the suffering caused by the changes in society and experienced among the survivors, like Boccaccio and Petrarch, may turn on DNA receptors too.
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Q: (R) Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar! {laughter} (A) When I was looking for the right keywords for my chapter, I came across this Matti Pitkanen. And I started to read. And he had all the things that were in my mind or were mentioned by the C's or that I was asking C's ... (L) So did Dan Winter. (A) Well, Matti is a physicist! (L) So is Dan Winter according to his own claims. (A) Ouch! So Matti had all the right things and he knew math; p-adic numbers I learned from him. Complexification, dimensions, quantum jumps even. Where is he getting all this right keywords? What is his role, who makes him to resonate to all the right things? I don't understand what such people do, how they come along with all these things.
A: Suffering activates neuro-chemicals which turn on DNA receptors.
On the Black Death, the rule of three, and the Renaissance
While the Black Death may have influenced how the Renaissance gained traction and unfolded, I am not sure, it caused it. As we have seen, some ideas and people who seeded the Italian Renaissance were born before the Black Death. But if there seems to be many processes at work, does the law of three apply?
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(Arky)[...] I want to ask about dialectical logic. There was this guy Hegel. He invented what is called dialectics. It can be summarized like contradictions are important; there is thesis, anti-thesis, and then you have synthesis. Okay... There is idealistic dialectics, materialistic, etc. And of course there are critics saying it's nonsense, that the only good logic is Aristotelian logic, and all this dialectics is just pure nonsense. I would like to have some hint. Should I study dialectic logic and Hegel?
A: Law of Three rules!
Q: (Arky) Law of three?
(Pierre) Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
(Arky) Okay, I am done.
If I use the law of three on the appearance of the book of Decameron which is a series of stories that take place within the framework of the raging plague in Florence, then I could venture that the social conditions of a creative group of rich and noble young people in Florence (thesis) faced with the destruction of the Black Death ravaging their town (antithesis) led them to leave town and entertain and nourish each other in their country house secluded and removed from the Black Death mayhem (synthesis). I am not sure the Decameron would have seen the light of day without the Black Death. Or one could say that the Decameron exists as an artistic synthesis on the backdrop of the conflict between the remembered good life of the past and the observed suffering by himself and his contemporaries. Here is what the
Wiki says:
The Decameron (
/dɪˈkæmərən/;
Italian:
Decameron [deˈkaːmeron, dekameˈrɔn, -ˈron] or
Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled
Prince Galehaut (Old Italian:
Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed
l'Umana commedia ("the Human
comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed
Dante Alighieri's
Comedy "
Divine"), is a collection of
short stories by the 14th-century Italian author
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a
frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside
Florence in order to escape the
Black Death, which was afflicting the city.
Boccaccio probably conceived of the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in
The Decameron range from the
erotic to the
tragic. Tales of wit,
practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on
Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Written in the
vernacular of the
Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose.
[1]
In this
post, you can read a description of the plague in Florence from the beginning of the Decameron.
On the subject of fertility and the Black Death
In the German book Die Vernichtung der Weisen Frauen
(The Destruction of the Wise Women.) By Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger, Ausburg, 2005
(review) they suggest that one important reason the witches were hunted down was because they had knowledge of contraceptives and abortion.
After the plague many workers had died so the powerful landowners and the church needed people to work their lands, not contraceptives and abortion, which allowed for the average people to lead lives and raise children according to their means. This in practical terms meant that they would generate less offspring than fertility provided possibilities - not a popular solution among those who needed labours.
According to the above book, after the Black Death, medicine became increasingly more institutionalized and regulated by the authorities.
The influence on genes from the Black Death virus may not have been a one way street
The following excerpts occur in relation to Coronavirus, RNA vaccinations, and the expected space virus. In the transcripts, it is mentioned that the vaccine has docking elements, and that the virus from space has 4D STS influences. When I read this, I wondered if 4D STS have also influenced previous events like the Black Death. Without trying to answer the question, here are the excepts:
Session Date: February 26th 2022 Laura, Andromeda, and Artemis at the board Pierre, Joe, Gaby, Ark, PoB, Chu, Scottie, Niall, Princess Leia FOTCM Members present via Zoom (in alphabetical order): 3DStudent, 987baz, Aeneas, aimarok, Aiming, alana, alejo, alianah, Altair, aluminumfalcon...
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(Ryu) To go back to Pierre's comment, are Covid vaccines used as ethnic weapons?
A: Can be. Docking elements included.
Q: (L) So the vaccine has things in it that are docking elements for later propagation of some kind of pathogen?
A: Yes
Q: (Pierre) And the targeted population is Kantekkians, i.e. true Semites, i.e. Caucasians (in the sense of peoples from the area of the Caucasus).
(L) Targeted in what way? For download, or for the ethnic-specific weapons?
(Pierre) For both. Well, the vaccine. They have a mutation that over-expresses the ACE2 protein. They're more likely to get the effects of the vaccine.
A: Yes
Q: (Joe) Pierre's on an obvious train of thought that Kantekkians are awesome people - that they're the True Semites and stuff. But the Cs just said in this session that people were transferred to that part of Ukraine and they had just destroyed their own planet! [laughter] So, they're not awesome people.
(L) Yeah. The C's also said something about that Nordic Covenant business... That peoples of Nordic descent, i.e. Kantekkian, could be of positive or negative orientation. It's representative of a power center in their genetics...
(Pierre) 'Intensity' was the word used. Kantekkians had more intensity of a certain type of power.
(L) Yeah, intensity. So, yeah.
(Pierre) Intensity for the good, intensity for the bad.
(L) Very interesting. Okay, hold on...
(Regulattor) What about vaccines virus recombinations/mutations, how is that developing? Is it still too early to say how lethal it is going to be?
A: Not the biggest problem.
Q: (L) What IS the biggest problem?
A: Virus from space/4D STS.
The good and the bad, genetic upgrades from viruses and parasites
In the latest session, it is said that while the coronavirus can provide upgrade, parasites are at work at times of major changes, probably to counter any beneficial effects.
Session Date: April 23rd 2022 Laura, Andromeda, and Artemis at the board Pierre, Joe, Chu, PoB, Ark, Scottie, Gaby, Niall, Pikabu the Cat Q: (L) Today is April the 23rd, 2022. The usual suspects: [Review of those present] Alright. Hello? Anybody there? A: Moiloiaea of Cassiopaea and good...
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Q: (L) Well, going along with that question: Is our current interaction with the coronavirus gonna provide us with any upgrades?
A: In some respects. But remember what was said about parasites at times of major change and remain vigilant and proactive.
Q: (L) In other words, don't just assume that things can go a positive way without taking action yourself. Like hyperbaric chambers or vitamin C or ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and all of that.
