15.异域及其所创造的: Asia and other Elsewheres
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长假适合放空,在此处有龙“唱诗”特别节目的第3集(Songs of the Dragons 3)中,请和我们一起伴随琴声与歌声,悠游古奇尼(Fracesco Guccini)和马可·波罗(Marco Polo)笔下的亚细亚,探索异域/他乡(Elsewhere)迷思作为人类文明进步的核心内驱力之一,其动力机制,其悖论,其幻境。
你将遇见的龙族有:柏拉图、古罗马剧作家特伦斯(Publius Terentius Afer)、十字军战士、狮心王理查(Richard Lionheart)、萨拉丁(Saladin)、马修·巴里(Matthew Paris)、马修·派瑞(Matthew Perry)、马可·波罗、托马斯·阿奎那(Thomas Aquinas)、彼得大帝(Peter the Great)、歌德、赫尔曼·黑塞(Hermann Hesse)、西蒙娜·薇依(Simone Weil)、西蒙娜·韦伊(Simone Veil)、西蒙娜·德·波伏娃、伊丽莎白·毕肖普、布莱塞·帕斯卡(Blaise Pascal)、米兰·昆德拉、刚过世的教皇方济各一世(Pope Francis I)等。
你生命中的异域,或对异域的向往,曾为你创造过什么?欢迎留言告诉我们。
我们将在今年晚些时候策划小型线下见面活动,届时将有Songs of the Dragons现场弹唱,我们也将邀请踊跃留言的龙友一起来参加面对面的互动交流。
假期快乐!
@本期主播: 包慧怡、桑阳
@制作人: 张泽熙
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Detail of Catalan Atlas (1375) depicting Marco Polo travelling to the East during the Pax Mongolica
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Abraham Ortelius, Chinae olim sinarum regionis nova descriptio 【《中国新图》,收入1584年版《寰宇大观》,今藏香港科技大学图书馆】
Sebastian Münster, Tabula Asiae VIII 【《亚洲第八图》,1540年版,今藏香港科技大学图书馆】其中有对“丝国人”的拉丁文描述:“中国人(丝人)是一切生灵中最安静的人,不与其他民族发生贸易往来。 他们的寿命相当长,最后无疾而终。”详情参见包慧怡,《图绘丝国:十五十六世纪欧洲地图上的中国》,《世界美术》2023年。
Coat of arms (16–18th cent.) of Venice
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Lion in an English medieval bestiary.
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The Venetian fleet heads towards Constantinople on 12 April 1204.
Nonantola Abbey:
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本期节目歌词:
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中世纪动物寓言集(bestiary) 中猫和老鼠(Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS764 ):
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黑塞乡间闲居时的小屋子手绘及散文:
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Hermann Hesse, especially in Wanderung and works like Siddhartha, uses Erlösung more in an existential or psychological sense:
- As inner liberation or personal awakening
- A form of self-overcoming or spiritual clarity
- Achieving peace through introspection rather than external doctrines
Simone Adolphine Weil (3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943)
推荐阅读:《柏拉图对话中的神》,西蒙娜·薇依 / 吴雅凌(译) / 华夏出版社 / 2012
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Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris (Matthæus Parisiensis, 'Matthew the Parisian', c. 1200 – 1259), was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, cartographer who was based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.
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Self-portrait of Matthew Paris from the original manuscript of his Historia Anglorum (London, BL, MS Royal 14.C.VII, folio 6
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Matthew Paris' painting of the elephant of Louis IX of France, a present to Henry III of England. Illustration from the Chronica Majora II, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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Originally published: 1965 | Author: Elizabeth Bishop. It is Miss Bishop's first volume of verse since Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto: "I am man, nothing that is human is alien to me".
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It is a phrase originating from Publius Terence Afer (c. 184 BC-159 BC), from his comedy Heautontimorumenos (The tormentor of himself), where it is pronounced by the character Cremes to justify his meddling.
Pelican (鹈鹕):
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Beavers Bit Off Their Own Testicles:
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Medieval bestiary's depiction of a beaver hunt/testicle (British Library & British Museum).
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Mosaic of Marco Polo displayed in the Palazzo Doria-Tursi, Genoa, Italy, 1867