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Historians usually describe the 18 ^th century as a Golden Age for most of the major and minor Arts, with its admirable achievements, masterworks of architecture, painting, sculpture, music, literature, as well as Grand Style furniture, jewelry, tableware, tapestry, fabrics and of...

The Accademia di Melioria held its first open poetry reading today. The experiment proved quite successful, with a diverse group of literary enthusiasts sharing poems (both in chat and in Voice), written by authors from a variety of time periods and nations.

I am having trouble creating notecards in SL (asset server threw up, I think). Therefore I am posting the readings here so that people can see them, in the unlikely event that SL stays broken.

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Diary of a Contessa, Venezia June 17th, Year of our Lord 1781

So today, i found a magnificent baroque/french style hideaway, right on my front door step- so to speak- in the most unlikely places (i would have thought) of South Lanarkshire, greater Glasgow, Scotland.

My boyfriend had been nagging me for months to go for a walk in the country park...

HRH, Louis-Stanislas, comte de Provence, decided to throw a picnic in the forest near the palace to celebrate all things natural and presumably good. When telling his plans to his dear Tantes the week before, the Madame Royale scoffed at him, suggesting that only a fool would host a dinner...