Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio I Tatti collection. A collection of mini biographies of men of the Renaissance. This collection was supposed to be housed in a Museum on lake Como with physical portraits of the men in the descriptions: the idea being that people would wander from portrait to portrait and take in the mini biographics. Some of them are intensely funny poop flinging by Giovio. In my opinion they're an odd collection of figures, and their brevity doesn't allow one to develop much curiosity about any of the figures to inspire further reading. Still, as lists go it is probably a useful starting point for renaissance scholarship. Sort of Cornelius Nepos for renaissance nerds.
I'd like to get it some additional readership, so I wonder if you'd give me permission to republish it, naturally with original attribution and a link-back.
Apparently, your old email is no longer functioning, but you can email me back at Ron@unz.com.
Hey sorry, I only saw this just today. I still haven't fully transitioned to substack and for whatever reason it sends me email when someone subscribes instead of someone making an interesting comment. I followed up by email (sure it's fine to use my stuff with attribution; long time fan of your work).
Dear Scott,
It's been a while and I hope you've been doing well and had a nice Thanksgiving.
Someone pointed me to an excellent column on our current military weapons systems that you'd published a year ago on your Substack:
https://scottlocklin.substack.com/p/current-year-us-military-is-hilarious
I'd like to get it some additional readership, so I wonder if you'd give me permission to republish it, naturally with original attribution and a link-back.
Apparently, your old email is no longer functioning, but you can email me back at Ron@unz.com.
Sincerely,
Ron Unz
Hey sorry, I only saw this just today. I still haven't fully transitioned to substack and for whatever reason it sends me email when someone subscribes instead of someone making an interesting comment. I followed up by email (sure it's fine to use my stuff with attribution; long time fan of your work).