Enea Poems - Poems about Enea

...Word and Thought And can you say exactly what’s a word? (Seems easy, but it isn’t!) It’s a thought that takes on form: once wraith, it now is wrought, much in the way that milk morphs into cur......Read the rest...

...Paint and Plaster So what, in essence, is this thing called paint? A coloured liquid which, applied to plaster, will fuse and forge a thing securer, faster, and far more comely than before. Ho......Read the rest...

...Anxious in Ancona (2) The Doge has apportioned a fleet for his use, but is proving an Indian giver. A pope with a navy (and with a screw loose) is no-one’s idea of chopped liver, so Venice, de......Read the rest...

...Anxious in Ancona (1) His plan, as he’s boarding his baldachined barge en route for the easterly sea, (arthritis allowing) is giving it large, but the pain is as bad as can be: though Rome is ......Read the rest...

...Points Above and Below the Line (Enea Canonises Catherine of Siena) It's not a thing we go for any more, that hierarchy malarkey, but in fact the medieval mind set mega store by stairs and ......Read the rest...

...The Conference at Mantua Ah, what a scene of tranquil learnedness! The scholars nurse their tomes like babes in arms: white locks: heads cocked to savor the address of Pius, in his charming ......Read the rest...

...Enea's Pope! (2) I suppose it’s common knowledge (and not tedious, I hope!) that two-thirds of the Sacred College must concur to elect a pope. With eighteen cardinals gathered, twe......Read the rest...

...Enea is Pope! (1) It doesn’t look good. There is restiveness around the ‘hood. Naples is in turmoil, a bastard claiming the throne – but is he even a bastard? ......Read the rest...

...Enea Gets the Red Hat Finally, he's getting somewhere. Fifty years of age and almost crippled, prematurely aged, but at last, sweet recognition rains down on the poet. Kneeling before Cali......Read the rest...

...Gate and Column Enea celebrates the wedding of Frederick and Leonor He owned a benefice “out there”, beyond Ravenna, but now, in middle age, he’s coming home. The action’s moved to native-tow......Read the rest...

...Enea, at the Scottish Court The critics claim that this is far the worst of all the frescoes. Enea the star? No inkling here. Can that be James the First? And that’s the Clyde? It looks m......Read the rest...

...Enea, Embarking at Piombino An impecunious nobleman he was, with all the grace and arrogance of youth: he signed with Capranica, just because the latter (who was longer in the tooth, with deep......Read the rest...

...(In the early years of the 16th century, the artist Pinturicchio was employed by Cardinal Piccolomini to decorate the library of Siena Cathedral with fresco scenes from the life of his ancestor, ......Read the rest...