Tag Archives: Michel de Montaigne

  1. Jack’s House, Montaigne’s Essays, and Florio

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    January 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                It’s confession time; I’m an annotator (a person who adds explanatory or critical notes to a text) and often write …
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    Category: annotation, books, dictionaries, folklore | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  2. Thumbs, Maxims, and Regret

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Doctors say that our thumb is our master-finger and that our French word for it, ‘pouce,’ derives from the Latin …
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    Category: essay, illness, pandemic, plague, translation, vaccination, writers, writing | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Friendships, Moons, and Jousting

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                Michel Montaigne had a lot to say about friendship.  In his essay, “On Friendship,” a paean to his deceased …
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    Category: France, friends, friendship, libraries, royalty | Tags: , , , , , ,

  4. Tea, Twain, and Tomes

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    March 30, 2020 by libroshombre

    One’s personal collection of books, or lack thereof, is often interesting, hence my curiosity about other people’s libraries.  Perhaps a …
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    Category: books, booksellers, brain, drinks, libraries, library history, printers, tea, Uncategorized | Tags: , ,

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