A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer(publicdomainreview.org)

26 points by pepys 1 year ago | 2 comments

Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective(publicdomainreview.org)

59 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires(publicdomainreview.org)

28 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 1 comments

Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)Graces of the Parenthesis(publicdomainreview.org)

5 points by pepys 26 days ago | 0 comments

A Public Domain Review essay by Florence Hazrat on Philip Sidney's heavy use of parentheses, including in his romance Arcadia, which ends mid-parenthesis.

Veronese's Dogs(publicdomainreview.org)

19 points by prismatic 1 month ago | 2 comments

Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism(publicdomainreview.org)

13 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 3 comments