Author: Francesco Cancellieri

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• Tim Powers (1)
  • IN: Medusa’s Web (2016) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: “When you are in the fingers of this unwisely summoned beast, you find yourself in a hundred conflicting motions all in the same moment. You grieve, you dance, you vomit, you shake, you weep, you faint, and suffer enormously, and you die… the sovereign and sole remedy is Music.”
    FROM: Letters of Francesco Cancellieri to the ch. Signore Dottore Koreff, Professor of Medicine of the University of Berlin, about Tarantism, the airs of Rome, and of its countryside, and the Papal palaces inside, and outside, Rome, (1817), NULL, NULL