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Livre du Tresor, encyclopédie de Brunetto Latini. Brunetto Latini est né à Florence dans les années 1220.

Livre du Tresor, encyclopédie de Brunetto Latini

Engagé dans la vie politique, il fait partie des Guelfes. En 1260 après la bataille de Monte Aperti, le parti Gibelin s'empare du pouvoir à Florence. Latini est contraint à l'exil. Il s'installe en France et compose une encyclopédie, Li livres dou Tresor. Après le mirouer du monde de Gossuin de Metz (voir encyclopédie), c'est un Italien qui rédige l'une des premières encyclopédies en langue d'oïl (ancien français). Les encyclopédies de cette époque étaient plutôt rédigées en latin. En 1268, Florence est libéré des Gibelins et Latini retourne dans sa ville natale. C'est l'un des maîtres et ami de Dante, né à Florence pendant l'exil de Latini. Lo Tesoro comenza. Le Propriétaire des choses. 7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World. The vast majority of the knowledge humans have assembled over the centuries, has been lost.

7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World

The world's geniuses either kept their revelations to themselves and then died, or else they put it down on paper which has long since rotted or burned or been used to line some parakeet's cage. Obviously we'll never know what great books have been lost to time, but we have clues on some of them, and what those clues tell us is mind-boggling, and a little bit depressing. If you could make a library out of just books that didn't survive, you'd have a collection of some of the best freaking books ever written. The Gospel of Eve, by Unknown What is it: It is apparently a totally sexually perverse lost book of the Bible. (Wait, what? Why it's Awesome: Ah ha! Why You'll Never Read It: In the 4th Century church officials like Epiphanius lashed out at the book, apparently having nothing better to do than stop everyone from having sex and eating a little bit of semen. Book of Enoch.

The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) are estimated to date from about 300 B.C., and the latest part (Book of Parables) probably was composed at the end of the first century B.C.[2] It is wholly extant only in the Ge'ez language, with Aramaic fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and a few Greek and Latin fragments.

Book of Enoch

For this and other reasons, the traditional Ethiopian belief is that the original language of the work was Ge'ez, whereas non-Ethiopian scholars tend to assert that it was first written in either Aramaic or Hebrew; E. Isaac suggests that the Book of Enoch, like the Book of Daniel, was composed partially in Aramaic and partially in Hebrew.[3]:6 No Hebrew version is known to have survived. The authors of the New Testament were familiar with the content of the story and influenced by it:[4] a short section of 1 Enoch (1 En 1:9) is quoted in the New Testament (Letter of Jude 1:14–15), and is attributed there to "Enoch the Seventh from Adam" (1 En 60:8). Peter H. 7 Lost Bodies of Work (That Would Have Changed Everything) The Rest of the Canterbury Tales Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of--if not the--seminal work of English literature, written by an author second only to William Shakespeare in influence on the English language (particularly when it came to fart jokes).

7 Lost Bodies of Work (That Would Have Changed Everything)

Just about everything written by the man changed the English-speaking world forever. He basically raised the English language from its reputation as the barbarian dialect of mud-shoveling peasants to the lofty level of Latin or Italian in literature, poetry, witticism, satire and all manner of subjects concerning asses and the gasses that come from asses. So What Happened? Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters.

The author's grand vision was a massive novel documenting the adventures of a group of pilgrims on their long journey to Canterbury, who pass the time by bullshitting each other with tall stories. Such a shame, too. In Your General Direction, a new play by William Shakespeare.