{"id":35312,"date":"2020-02-14T06:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35312"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:02:33","slug":"cesare-augusto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/14\/cesare-augusto\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesare Augusto"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t imagine that Lovecraft-the-Roman never once<\/em> sought out this fine bronze statue of ‘Cesare Augusto’ on the Brown University campus.<\/p>\n

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The statue stood in front of Rhode Island Hall, an exact replica of an ancient statue of Caesar Augustus in Rome. It was installed at Brown in 1906, a gift from M. B. I. Goddard, and by the 1920s and 30s the statue’s surface and pedestal would likely have become somewhat softened in tone by natural weathering. <\/p>\n

Standing before it, many aspects of the man would have flashed in Lovecraft’s mind. Not the least of which would be that here was monument to a fellow writer…<\/p>\n

… it would pay to study other languages … Even Latin literature can be known pretty well through good English renderings of Caesar, Cicero, [etc, though] not all of them [to be read] complete, of course, but in balanced rations as recommended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Encyclopedia Brunoniana<\/em> reveals that after 1915 the Hall housed the Philosophy Department on the first floor and the Geology Department on the ground floor and in the basement. One then wonders if a visit to Providence by the geologist Morton might once have enabled Lovecraft to go inside the building with him, and be given a tour of the Geology dept.? Thus also admiring the statue on the way in and out. The statue stood there until 1952.<\/p>\n

Predictably, toxic leftists are now demanding it be removed from the campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t imagine that Lovecraft-the-Roman never once sought out this fine bronze statue of ‘Cesare Augusto’ on the Brown University …<\/p>\n

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