The message Monteverdi wants to deliver is clear: “I master all techniques and styles, from the most learned ‘stile antico’ to the most modern styles.” Not surprisingly, a contemporary described him as “the greatest composer in Italy.” As far as I am concerned, he could have added: “of all time.”
We must rediscover the principles that—in as many forms as there are Western nations—founded each of our countries and the West as a whole.
Women are facing many forms of reprisals—including censorship, loss of employment opportunities, loss of income, deplatforming, and threats of legal action—simply for daring to question the transgender movement.
Under Spain’s Democratic Memory Law, the Francoist nobility was collectively singled out for extirpation, and its heads of family found themselves officially ‘disennobled.’
Christ is the salvation for the shipwrecked. Clinging to Him will keep us afloat in a shipwrecked world. The order He brings gives the martyr the ability to lay down his life, the sorrowful to find hope, and the grieving to find peace that the world can never give.
The good news is, the Sarum Rite and ample commentaries on how to offer it remain in existence. It’s all there, waiting to be brought back to the Sceptred Isle once more.
By writing about my favorite Italian composers, placing the greatest Italian masterpieces in their historical context and listing the finest performances known to me, I hope to pass on the best of myself as a music scholar and concert organizer.
It is as if in this global chaos, a new era of empires is looming and small European nations with a strong sense of identity will have to reaffirm their unwavering commitment to freedom.
St. John’s Day, June 24th, is a high point of medicinal magic; the assembling and sealing of diverse ointments and oils, gels and gums, to be used throughout the year.
Dugin, far from being the champion of Christianity against modernity, in reality promises Satanic ‘divinization’ through acts of demonic evil.
What can the world expect of the new Finnish conservative government, and how European conservatives can support their peers in Finland?
As the canonization process for this native American Catholic medicine man remains open, we take a look at the Biblical patterns in Black Elk’s visions.
