Dyalogus Creaturarum:
RENAISSANCE WOODCUTS &
FABLES
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ADE in 1483, I was: that makes me over 500 years old, about like Christopher Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci. I don't suppose any of you who are listening to me are as old as that, you probably haven't even reached the odd hundred: and I wonder if you'll be alive in the year 2483, after another 500 years, as we are today... I suppose you youngsters may find us a bit old-fashioned - people had a great respect for authority in the days when we were young, and those at the top of things felt they had to tell everyone lower down what to do and how to behave. |
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ut if you'll bear with me, I'd like to tell you my little story, and then introduce you to a few of my friends and tell you theirs, too. And then, of course, it's up to you if you want to keep us alive...: maybe you can retell our stories, or tell new stories about us, copy our pictures, or cut out bits of them and stick them back together in different ways, maybe even get us to move, or draw completely new ones, add some music... |
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e'll start with my story.
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Eight Stories: About Laurus, the
Sea-Eagle |
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