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Astrophil and Stella - Sonnet 16

Episode 22 of the LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection by Various podcast, hosted by LibriVox, titled "Astrophil and Stella - Sonnet 16" was published on April 21, 2026 and runs 1 minutes.

April 21, 2026 ·1m · LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection by Various

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7 by Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1574) LibriVox The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri) is a collection of biographies of Italian artists written by the 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari. The Vite or "Lives" is a valuable witness of the thought about art at the times now known as Renaissance by one of its actors: Vasari is mostly known for being the mind behind the revitalization of the Uffizi, in Florence. The Lives are a fundamental work for art historians. - Summary by Leni Obscure Night of The Soul, The by Saint John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) LibriVox The Obscure Night of the Soul, better know today as The Dark Night of the Soul, is the distilled teaching of St John of the Cross, who reintroduced and revolutionized Christian Contemplation in the 16th Century. The text remains in print until this day, and has been an inspiration to seekers for centuries. St John's method is known as the Via Negativa, defined in Wikipedia as "a type of theological thinking that attempts to describe God, the Divine Good, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God...In brief, negative theology is an attempt to clarify religious experience and language about the Divine through discernment, gaining knowledge of what God is not (apophasis), rather than by describing what God is. The apophatic tradition is often, though not always, allied with the approach of mysticism, which focuses on a spontaneous or cultivated individual experience of the divine reality beyond the realm of ordinary perception, an Rhodora, The by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) LibriVox To celebrate Earth Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 16th, 2006.(Summary by Annie Coleman) Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I by François Rabelais (1494 - 1553) LibriVox The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters.(Summary by Wikipedia)
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