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Photo by New York Scugnizzo |
April 22, 2024
Photo of the Week: Asteas Krater, Mid-Fourth Century B.C., Archaelogical Museum of Paestum
April 21, 2024
Natale di Roma
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| The Palatine Hill (Photo by New York Scugnizzo) |
Observing the 101st Annual National Coin Week
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| Sitting on these rolls for awhile now, I finally started going through them |
Just the other day, while sifting through rolls of 1940s pennies I found a silver 25 öre coin from Sweden. Dated 1897, the obverse has the crowned monogram of King Oscar II surrounded by the three crowns of Sweden and the Royal Family’s motto “BRÖDRAFOLKENS VÄL” (the welfare of the brother peoples). Smooth edged, the reverse has the value (25 öre) within a laurel wreath with the date below. Not in great condition, someone punched a hole through it to make a pendant out of it.
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| The obverse |
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| The reverse |
April 20, 2024
April 19, 2024
Ponderable Quote by Antoine de Rivarol
“The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, and never Marcus Aurelius.”Quoted from Liberty or Equality by Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, 2007, The Ludwig von Moses Institute, p. 150.
Portrait of Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801), by Melchior Wyrsch.
April 18, 2024
Meridiunalata: "I’ Nun Songo Nato" by Cav. Charles Sant'Elia
I’ Nun Songo Nato
I’ nun songo nato p’’e cavalle,
Ma p’’e varche a mare,
D’’e passe secure
Nun me fido chiù,
Saccio meglio l’onne sciuliarelle
Ca mpácchiano.
I’ nun aggio maje vuluto
Ngarrà niente,
Addevinà prufezzíe.
I’ aggio sempe vuluto
Ncuccià ‘a fatalità
Tutta d’’a mia
Ncopp’’o fatto,
Chello ca chiammammo
«Nu juorno ‘e chisto»,
Ca pe me
È stu zico ca stammo
Risciatanno mo.
I’ songo chillo ca lassa
L’antica p’’a nova,
Ca passa dint’’o scuro
D’’o vico cumme fosse miezujuorno,
Ca piglia ‘a sagliuta sudanno
Senza manco nu penziero
‘E stanchezza.
Cumm’a tutt’’a razza
I’ nun songo nato
Pe murì ma pe campà.
I Wasn’t Born
I wasn’t born for horses,
But for boats at sea,
I can’t take
Sure steps any more,
I know the slippery waves
That deceive better.
I never wanted
To guess anything,
Divine prophecies,
I always wanted to
Catch a destiny
All my own
Redhanded,
That which we call
«One of these days»,
Which for me
Is this second that we are
Breathing now.
I’m the one that leaves
The old for the new,
That passes in the dark
Of the alley as though it were midday,
That takes the ascent sweating
Without even a thought
Of tiredness.
Like all the race
I was not born
To die but to live.
* Self-published in 2010, Meridiunalata / Southernade is a treasury of poems gleaned from Cav. Sant'Elia's previous collections (Nchiuso dint''o presente, 'A cuntrora, and 'O pino e l'éllera), which were circulated among friends in New York City and Naples. Special thanks to Cav. Sant'Elia for allowing us to reprint his poetry and translations.
April 17, 2024
New Book — Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy's Pre-Eminent City, 1500–1800
• Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy's Pre-Eminent City, 1500–1800 by Lorenza Gianfrancesco and Neil Tarrant
Publisher: UCL Press
Publication Date: January 8, 2025
Paperback: $45.00
Hardback: $70.00
Language: English
Pages: 294
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April 15, 2024
Photo of the Week: Farnese Hercules in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
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| The Ercole Farnese is an early third century AD copy by the Athenian Glykon of a 4th century BC bronze statue by Lysippus for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The original was destroyed in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople Photo by New York Scugnizzo |
April 14, 2024
Drinks in Memory of Maria Theresa of Naples & Sicily, Last Holy Roman Empress & First Empress of Austria
Eternal rest grant unto Her Majesty, O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
New Music — Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade
• Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade performed by Christophe Rousset and Les Talens
Label: Chateau Versailles
Release Date: March 19, 2024
Audio CD: $20.99
Number of Discs: 2
Available at Amazon.com
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April 13, 2024
April 12, 2024
A Prayer for the Memphis Police Department
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| San Michele Arcangelo, ora pro nobis |
Prayer for Police Officers
O Almighty God, Whose great power and eternal wisdom embraces the universe, watch over all policemen and law enforcement officers everywhere. Protect them from harm In the performance of their duty to stop crime, robbery, riots and violence. We pray, help them keep our streets and homes safe, day and night. We commend them to your loving care because their duty is dangerous. Grant them strength and courage In their daily assignments. Dear God, protect these brave men and women. Grant them your almighty protection, Unite them safely with their families after duty has ended. Please God, grant us this wish. Amen
New Book: The Martyrs of Castelfidardo
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| Photo courtesy of Papal Zouave International |
A compilation of stories about the soldiers who were martyred while answering the call to defend Bl. Pius IX and the Papal States from revolutionaries during the Battle of Castelfidardo.
• The Martyrs of Castelfidardo by Anatole-Henri-Philippe, Marquis de Ségur, and edited by Brendan Cassell
Publisher: Arouca Press
Publication Date: April 12, 2024
Paperback: $21.95
Hardback: $31.95
Language: English
Pages: 220
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April 11, 2024
April 10, 2024
Thoughts on 'Vaincre ou Mourir'
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| Vaincre ou Mourir (2023) |
It is scarcely possible to exaggerate just what a momentous leap forward the production of this film represents.
The present malaise of the West will never be cured so long as the source of it remains sacrosanct in the popular imagination - the myth of the French Revolution.
Only when a critical mass learns the truth, that the 'Revolution' was an opportunistic oligarchic coup d'etat, perpetrated by an urban élite who, as a consequence, still today wields power throughout the West, will the healing truly begin.
Unlike the Paris coup, the Vendée rebellion, which rose up against the murderous new regime in 1793, was an actual popular movement, that rejected the apostasy of the Revolution and the desecration of creed, culture and country it perpetrated, and faced genocide as a consequence. As a result, history has long preferred that the majority remain unaware the rebellion ever occurred.
It is little surprise, therefore, that the choice of such a subject for the powerful medium of film triggered the scorn of the press, for we today face the same foe that the heroes of the Vendée stood so bravely against, giving their lives in the valiant belief that evil must never advance unopposed.
April 9, 2024
In Memoriam Louis Infante
Il Regno deeply regrets the loss of Don Luis Infante de Amorín, director of la Agencia FARO and member of la Secretaría Política de S.A.R. Don Sixto Enrique de Borbón. We pray for the happy repose of his soul. Requiescat in pace.
Photo courtesy of @CarlismoGalicia
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Photo of the Week: Farnese Hercules in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
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| The Ercole Farnese is an early third century AD copy by the Athenian Glykon of a 4th century BC bronze statue by Lysippus for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. The original was destroyed in 1205 during the Sack of Constantinople Photo by New York Scugnizzo |
April 7, 2024
April 6, 2024
Brief Excerpts from "Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large" by Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The gospel of the Bolsheviks has for our middle class with its materialistic outlook, its Rentnerseele, a truly apocalyptic strength and a satanical power of temptation. Our materialistic society can theoretically not be saved from bolshevism by itself (or from the more "national" form of socialism) because these political and economical theories are nothing else but the last iron consequences of their own herdist ideologies. With a little more honesty and a little less liberal inhibitions (and these fizzle out slowly) they should have surrendered a long time ago. After the rejection of the Cross by the homo oeconomicus all his interest became centered around the problem of increased income. Instead of the beatific vision, insurance and pensions became the axis of human longing. For pensions and increased salaries the Bolsheviks slaughtered three million people and exposed twenty million people to the bitter death of starvation. The National Socialists are now on the best way to commit similar atrocities for the benefit of another millennium with superhighways and an economical Lebensraum. Thus we see geocentrism and the brutal craving for material welfare leading to madness, mass slaughter, and the demoniacal construction of Babylonic Towers. And one must fear that we are now only at the very beginning of a series of catastrophes. The gates of hell are wide open and the reason for the cataclysmic character of this age has never been better characterized than by Vassili Romanov in his Apocalypse’s of Our Time where he says: 
Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The deeper reason for everything now happening lies in the fact that owing to the withering away of Christianity enormous cavities have originated in the European World. Everything tumbles down now into these cavernous hollows.
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One cannot repeat it often enough that the only true revolutionary in this world is the Church with her basic opposition to the very spirit of our modern times. The same is true, to a certain extent, of every genuine, freedom-loving tradition which is based upon the Catholic notion of human responsibility and the free will, for whose philosophical and theological defense the Society of Jesus has earned everlasting merits.
Though bourgeois in spirit, communism (like any other ideology) can transcend its class limitations, but it will always betray its origin. W.H. Auden, for instance, in his enthusiasm for Red Spain, could not refrain from seeing the future of that country molded and shaped by the spirit of Welwyn Garden City or Brownsville in preference to that of Cervantes, Goya, or Calderón.
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Mediocrity is the death of every Rightist movement, but it is the very air in which Leftism thrives. A totalitarian leader who betrays practically every point of his party program hardly shakes the faith of his fanatical followers, but mediocre monarchs, Popes, and prelates have destroyed the old order.
* Reprinted from Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large by Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Isha Books, 2013, pp. 279-282
April 5, 2024
Happy Birthday Princess Camilla di Borbone!
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| HRH was born in Rome, Italy on April 5, 1971 Photo courtesy of Real Casa di Borbone |
April 4, 2024
New Book: Queen Maria Sophia of Naples, a Forgotten Heroine
• Queen Maria Sophia of Naples, a Forgotten Heroine by Carl Küchler
Publisher: Lettel Books
Publication Date: March 24, 2024
Paperback: $6.95
Language: English
Pages: 74
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