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Your meaning of words that were "mal-" is fantastic!

Is there a difference between words that are read and heard? I use text reader but need to have a text on the screen to, occasionally verify what I heard. For example: US or us?

"As a woman of renowned beauty, Ginevra de' Benci was also the subject of ten poems written by members of the Medici circle," Wiki. I wasn't able to find the poems!

Can't wait for your e-book...

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HI Grazyna, thanks for your thoughtful feedback. A lot of this just stuff just comes off the fingertips without premeditation, and there is a lot I don't notice until astute readers like yourself point it out. Re the poems to Ginevra, they were written by Cristoforo Landino and Alessandro Braccesi, commissioned by Venetian ambassador Bernardo Bembo. They are in Latin and so flowery in style you get a toothache just looking at them. There are two sonnets in Italian from Lorenzo "The Great" de' Medici. They can be found in full in the Walker and Goddard articles on the Da Vinci painting in JStor, but a few of them are floating around on blogs, etc.

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Mar 17·edited Mar 17Liked by Harvey Oxenhorn

“stuff just comes off the fingertips without premeditation”, in the mornings, I guess. Your body regenerates during nREM stages and then your soul and brain, in a tandem, are busy at REM stages. Then an automated transfer to your fingertips occur… At least I see it this way.

Thanks for info on the poems!

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That’s why sleep is the most important part of my day. 😴

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