Ms. Codex 385 - Instruttioni e lett[er]e dell’ illust[rissimo] et reverend[issimo] signore D[on] Carlo Cardinale Carafa, nipote di Papa Paolo IV, concernenti le controversie e li dispareri con la corona di Spagna cioè Filippo II e Carlo V con il sudetto pontifice massimo
Do you like history? This manuscript is a 17th-century copy of 71 instructions, dispatches, and letters dated between August 1555 and March 1563. They belong to the Cardinal Carlo Carafa, nephew of Pope Paul IV, and they deal with the relationship between the pope, the king of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor. It was copied somewhere in Italy, between 1600 and 1650.
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what she means: why is Dorian Gray never played by people with blond hair? why is Dorian always depicted as all pale and dark? oscar literally describes his hair as gold like two seconds after we meet him. directors apparently feel like they have to make Dorian look dark dangerous and brooding, but he’s not supposed to look dark and dangerous and brooding. That’s the whole point. No one ever suspects him because he looks like an innocent little cherub with golden curls and rosy cheeks. His physical appearance is described with terms that Western literary tradition, during the nineteenth century in particular, associated with goodness and godliness, and this is intentionally juxtaposed with the blackness of his soul. If you intentionally play him as someone who looks like a Byronic hero, much of the symbolism of his character is lost, right?
