Daily Rome Shot 1537

5 Comments

1. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf says:

   28 January 2026 at 4:05 PM

   White mates in 4.

   

   [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
2. WVC says:

   29 January 2026 at 7:50 AM

   I have a new found respect for any St. Thomas Aquinas scholars who have had to transcribe from original manuscripts.
3. EAW says:

   29 January 2026 at 8:57 AM

   You need to be well trained in paleography to be able to read the Angelic Doctor’s handwriting. What I have seen of the surviving examples of ancient Roman handwriting is even more illegible to the untrained eye.
4. ProfessorCover says:

   30 January 2026 at 1:06 AM

   After one of my daughters got married and before she went to Venice to do her research for her doctorate in Italian history, she went to a three week course in LA on reading handwriting. I had ever heard of such a thing. One thing I learned from this was that a Bishop in Venice in writing complained he could do nothing about girls being forced into convents against their will even though this violated Church law.
   (My daughter actually told me that she had held in her hands the letter in which the Bishop wrote this. Although I am happy she never smoked, it would have been cute if she had said “in my formerly nicotine stained hands”.)
5. APX says:

   2 February 2026 at 7:29 PM

   TIL St. Thomas Aquinas was left handed. His T crosses go from right to left instead of left to right, which is how we write lines. I even have a left handed ruler to accommodate this. It’s strange that he was still allowed to write with his left hand.

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