Daniela Graca (she/they)

Im sick of hearing about “golden retriever” boyfriends. Seriously what about the bond between a female mystic and her golden retriever confessor

A pigeon and the cupola of Florence’s cathedral in the background of my study space

Putting this pigeon in my thesis acknowledgements probably

Savonarola with these stormy skies on my way home last night was just too funny not to post. His grumpy presence reaches far beyond the grave (or the arno)

i think i am looking at a late sixteenth-century copy transcribed by suor michelagniola of a manuscript originally written by a different suor michelagniola

whoever spilled water on this manuscript hundreds of years ago is my mortal enemy.

i am losing track of all the suor michelagniolas in this monastery and so were the nuns labelling manuscripts. no one has any clue which michelagniola is which.

omgomgomg not only are souls eating words, sometimes we can hear the souls CHEWING as they eat

ilovemyresearchilovenyresearchilovenyresearch eeeeeee

we are also bathing in and feasting on the blood of Christ straight from the wounds but when ARENT we when u study 16th-century nuns, y’know?

A week in the archives: we are tasting songs, our souls are eating words, we are telling men to shut up, and we are tasting flowers from the garden

thank you domenica da paradiso and ur beautifully in tact archive ily

this is so exciting 😍😍😍😍😍

I’M MOVING TO ITALY TOMORROW so excited not to be mistaken for an american every time I speak (ie to not speak english)

oh, and my research… I’m excited for my research.

every draft I’ve ever written in my life has started with the sentence “[insert nun/convent here] was badass and super slay” and remains as such until at least draft 3.

Ahahaha I know this struggle far too well. I think I also have some subconscious curse of always pronouncing his name (and stumbling over it) in the wrong language lol

being a canadian abroad means being sent emails labelled “sos” from your government when all that’s happened is a flight company strike

i gave myself microbangs

oh latin definitely won

#Latin #Medieval

White soft cover booklet. Front cover has logo of blue and orange banjo with black printing "The Winnipeg Folk Festival 75". Below this is printed list of sponsors for festival.

In the first program of the 1974 @winnipegfolkfest.bsky.social, organizers wrote: “Folk Fest is not just a place to come and listen, although listening is an important part. It is a place to learn, to become involved, to share the many living traditions that will be here this weekend.” #FolkFest50

😂😭🤣

Self-portrait playing the lute by Artemisia Gentileschi., 1615. 22 years old then. 432 years old now. Hasn't aged a bit! It’s her birthday today.

I am in a fight to the death with the latin language and so far latin is winning lol oh no

Seen in Cambridge immediately after: a man fully asleep while his smart car drives him??? Suddenly very grateful to Tesla thank u for not running me over I guess (still gross)

Seen in Cambridge (UK): a pile of Harvard-branded shirts and hoodies in the bin

The Virgin Mary Reading to the Infant Christ Vittore Carpaccio, c.1460–c.1526.

The Courtauld Gallery, #London

I’m FREEEEEE (from urgently pressing work and professional situations in which I fear looking too cool and slay) time to dye my hair green again !!!!!!!! 💚🌿🍃🌱🦖🫒✨✨

I feel so unbelievably silly and out of place here allllll the time, largely stemming from my Manitoban-ness (ie 🌾🚜), but man I’ve never felt sillier for writing about….. ✨sound✨…. and ✨nuns✨ who had ✨genders✨ than I do right now.

academia is great sometimes bc u can make ur own schedule but then sometimes u have a deadline while ur entire home province catches on fire so then u edit the silly little commas in a bibliography or something while ppl at home evacuate + go through near-death experiences and that’s, uh, less cool🤡

I know I’ve made very very good friends here because after everyone submits their big end-of-year projects we have made plans to go on a milonga (tango) crawl.

new banner photo alert ‼️ ✨

“and I don’t want anything else from San Marco because I’ve had too much”

S Marco friars strike again