Sofia Floris

philosophy, poetry & the Middle Ages | @cityjournalism and @KingstonUni alumna | AFS Florida 2015-16📩 [email protected]

[CSPAN @cspan]

WHITE SMOKE

Conclave has elected a new pope.

[Orlando Avendaño @OrlvndoA]

No hace falta ser creyente para dejarse maravillar por la majestuosidad, la sincronía, la simbología, el misticismo, la solemnidad y la belleza de la Iglesia Católica.

Y todo ello acerca hasta al escéptico a lo divino. Es inevitable.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

The Pope showed more moral courage and solidarity with Gaza than the majority of Arab and Muslim leaders combined.

[🅺 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 @politikayl]

To die on an Easter Monday is so poetic, but this one hurts differently. A truly progressive Pope—one who did not hesitate to ask the hard questions and speak on difficult issues. One who did not mince his words, when everyone else was silent. Rest in power, Pope Francis.

[Magister Johannes Josephus @nassaujuan]

I cannot believe prots reinvented selling indulgences

[Marlon J. Ettinger @MarlonEttinger]

Nobody likes hearing it but the only thing that'll ever save you is reading for hours every day.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Vladimir Nabokov

[Angela ⟢ @luxangelae]

Whenever I’m depressed I just remember Gustave Doré’s art exists

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Christine de Pizan and the Sibyl surrounded by sun, moon, and stars
#InternationalWomensDay
BL Harley 4431; Christine de Pizan, Various Works including Le chemin de long estude; c.1410-c.1414; France, Central (Paris); f.189v @BLMedieval

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Michelangelo was born 550 years ago today.

The same man who sculpted the Pietà at 23, was commissioned the David at 26, painted the Sistine Chapel’s vault at 36, and was appointed chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica at 71.

A thread on the greatest artist of all time 🧵

[TheOrigenist @OrthodoxOrigen]

It is not accident that:

Origen
St. Augustine
Boethius
Ficino

And several others considered Christianity the completion of the Platonic system.

[blumi @bIoomity]

estado de salud: yes i am sick… fucking sick of capitalism

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Good night from the Seven Liberal Arts

BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c.1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.29r @BLMedieval

[Sopranos World @SopranosWorld]

Seasonal depression “isn’t real” until you get a warm day in February and realize you’ve been dead inside for months

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbook – Cats, Lions, and a Dragon, 1517.

[N @dearvotion]

The burial chapel of Léonce Evrard and his wife Louise Flignot, 1920.

Every summer solstice, sunlight unintentionally forms the shape of a heart at a corner of the interior through the round opening of the roof.

[Art or Other Things @ArtorOtherThing]

— Beatrice and Dante rising to the Heaven by Gustave Doré

[Em @dresdendoll]

odysseus

[Jameson Zaballos @JamesonZaballos]

@growing_daniel OpenAI to DeepSeek

[100 Days of Dante @100DaysofDante]

Gustave Doré's "The Gluttonous," 1868.