A Love Poem…

Rose Antonia Maria Valland (November 1, 1898 - September 18, 1980) was a French art historian, a member of the French Resistance, a captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish owned art from [...]

“We zijn nu op het punt aanbeland, omdat dat nou eenmaal zo hoort, om je een concept voor te leggen. Dit is misschien, maar hopelijk niet verassend, maar Gossy heeft geen concept. De bedoeling van een concept, zegt men, is om je duidelijk te maken waar we naar toe willen. Nou, wij van Gossy weten [...]

Name: Aphrodite
Parents: Unknown
Goddess of: Love, Beauty, Laughter, Pleasures
Symbol: Rose, Swan, Dove, Myrtle
Roman Name: Venus
Also Known As: Aligena, Candarena, Chrysenios, Urania
Patroness of: Courtesans
Notes: Aphrodite was not on the friendliest terms with Apollo and Artemis. She believed that every human needed a companion to love and be with. [...]

In Catholic catechism, the seven virtues refers to one of two lists of virtues, most commonly referring to the 4 Cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Restraint or Temperance, and Courage or Fortitude, and the 3 Theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love or Charity; these were adopted by the Church Fathers from virtue as defined [...]

“The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”-D.A.F de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 – December 2, [...]

“O Muses,O high genius,aid me now!
O memory that engraved the things i saw,
Here shall your worth be manifest to all!”-Dante Alighieri

‘O for a Muse of fire,that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
Akingdom for a stage,princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!”-William Shakespeare
In Greek mythology, the Muses (Ancient Greek αἱ μοῦσαι, hai moũsai [1]: [...]

Messalina,serving as a prostitute under the pseudonym of Lisisca.

Roman sources claim that Messalina used sex to enforce her power and control politicians.

she had a brothel under an assumed name and organised orgies for upper class women.

http://www.roman-emperors.org/valmess.htm