美國時間：每日珠璣 (By Hanching Chung)

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and ...  Wikipedia Born :  November 24, 1864,  Albi, France Died :  September 9, 1901,  Saint-André-du-Bois, France On view :  National Gallery of Art ,  Rijksmuseum ,  MORE Periods :  Post-Impressionism ,  Art Nouveau ,  Modern art ,  Impressionism ,  Realism Height :  1.54 m Resting place :  Cimetière de Verdelais Known for :  Painting, printmaking, drawing, draughting, illustration British Museum  新增了  4 張相片 。 French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died  # onthisday  in 1901. Here are some of his colourful prints depicting the elegance, glamour and excess of France in the 1890s. Count Lev N...

Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso.  Wikipedia Born :  September 8, 1474,  Reggio Emilia, Italy Died :  July 6, 1533,  Ferrara, Italy Spouse :  Alessandra Benucci Movies :  Hearts and Armour Quotes Nature made him, and then broke the mold. From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. Man proposes, and God disposes. Playwright and poet Ludovico Ariosto was born  # onthisday  in 1474. His most famous work, 'Orlando Furioso', has had a lasting impact on visual culture as artists have explored his imaginative universe  https://www.apollo-magazine.com/orlando-furiosos-imaginati…/ Orlando Furioso’s imaginative universe 500 years later | Apollo Magazine An exhibition at the Palazzo dei Diamanti marking the 500th anniversary of Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso rev...

François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. Wikipedia WIKI English 看英文版：小說幾乎都翻譯了；其他戲劇、評論等也都有譯本，只有詩歌沒英譯本； 日本情形類似英文，甚至連耶穌傳都有日譯本。 中文版以台灣書市為主，比起美、日的翻譯情形，當然很"貧乏"。 Born :  October 11, 1885,  Bordeaux, France Died :  September 1, 1970,  Paris, France Spouse :  Jeanne Lafon  (m. 1913–1970) Movies :  Thérèse Desqueyroux ,  The Black Angels Quotes No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

"Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me." —from THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898) by  H.G. Wells Herbert George "H. G." Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.  Wikipedia Born :  September 21, 1866,  Bromley, United Kingdom Died :  August 13, 1946,  Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom Plays :  The Invisible Man ,  The Island of Dr. Moreau Movies :  Things to Come ,  Island of Lost Souls ,  The Time Machine ,  MORE Quotes If we don't end war, war will end us. When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. History is a race between education and catastrophe. Scientific American 2016年9月8日 20:10  ·  The writings of H.G. Wells—born in 1866—launched a genre and inspir...