Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 5
Jacob worshipped his brother Esau and Pharao, the Egyptian, but on the point of his staff. (Gen 33.3) He worshipped, he did not adore....
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 4
You see that He forbids image-making on account of idolatry, and that it is impossible to make an image of the immeasurable, uncircumscribed, invisible...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 3
Therefore I venture to draw an image of the invisible God, not as invisible, but as having become visible for our sakes through flesh...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 2
In the first place, then, before speaking to you, I beseech Almighty God, to whom all things lie open, who knows my small capacity...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 1
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part I
With the ever-present conviction of my own unworthiness, I ought to have...
The Falcon part 5
“Since the hour, most honored lady,” began Federigo, “that I first fixed my affection on you, I have always found Fortune most perverse and...
The Falcon part 4
He then spread on his table a napkin of snowy whiteness, one of the few things which yet remained to him of his former...
The Falcon part 3
She then said to her son, “My dear son, be comforted, and get well, for I promise you that the first thing in the...
The Falcon part 2
Being thus unable to live any longer in the city in the style he was accustomed to, and being more than ever enamored of...
The Falcon part 1
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Boccaccio is one of the supreme figures in Italian literature. Great as a reformer of the language, he was at the same...
