Willis Goth Regier is the author of Quotology and Book of the Sphinx. He has written on the Arabian Nights, Erasmus’s Adages, and the Zibaldone of Leopardi for World Literature Today.
Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200 CE), “How to Read” 論語集注, in Sishu jizhu 四書集注, Sibu beiyao edition (National University of Singapore)
In A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter (Princ...
Statue of Erasmus near the Collegium Trilingue in Louvain / Photo by Nick Thompson
Desiderius Erasmus (1466?–1536) made big books from little things. A literary lapidary, he compiled proverbs, anecdo...
From Grimm’s Fairy Tales, translated from the German by Margaret Hunt, illustrated by John B. Gruelle (Cupples & Leon, 1914).
A review of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Br...
Portrait of Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) by A. Ferrazzi(Casa Leopardi, Recanati, Italy, 1820). Source: Wikipedia.
A review of Zibaldone, by Giacomo Leopardi. Ed. Michael Caesar...