2月29日是一個忽悠即逝的鬼魂，每逢四年才出現一次，有歷史上就曾出現過第30日，而這個罕見的日子是如何來的呢？本文將帶您踏上2月多了一天的歷法奇異之旅，從古羅馬到瑞典的無奈與坎坷，您將一窺這段歷史與文化背後的故事。文章通俗易懂、生動詼諧，是一篇能夠輕鬆融入歷史迷與文化愛好者的文章。

文化生活

國際

旅行美食

以行動支持創作者！付費即可解鎖

璀璨的万華鏡下，365+1，點點繁星在夜空裡閃爍著，似嘻笑或沉思，編織成璀璨奪目的銀河千景。有歷史的世界是幸福的，否則風花雪月終歸虛無飄渺。流逝的時光，潺潺細水，取一瓢的點滴拾遺，悄然偶遇的時空現場，我們都是舞台上的主角，看哪！芸芸眾生，每一天來到世間的人物群像，名為啟明之子。

私の部屋：世界、歷史、人生的万華鏡

先別管2月29日了，你聽過2月30日嗎？

政治與評論

情人節源自羅馬傳教士瓦倫汀對於愛與信仰的堅定，傳遞出對真愛的堅守和神的信仰。這篇文章記載了瓦倫汀在困境中的堅強、勇敢以及對愛與信仰的執著。由此看來，情人節並非單純的糖果和巧克力，而是關乎至高「愛」的見證。

聖瓦倫汀：愛裡沒有懼怕

乍暖還寒的多變時節，宛如任性千金般，深夜初春，帶著不懷好意的勁風，挑釁似地撫弄月台上打著哆嗦的身影。男人，一襲風衣作為屏蔽，默默等候著對號列車的進站；一旁的自動販賣機，紅白相間的「高雄朗」題字，即使無語承受了風的咆哮......

創作

音樂藝文

男人手上的錶。

「我突然領悟到，這個社會公理式微，正義孤單，該是知識份子挺身而出，發揮道德勇氣的時候。」，陳定南（前法務部長）

義光、哀慟，二二八。

「和解要有『正義』相伴，否則不會長久。雖然我們都希望和平，但它不應該是不惜一切代價的和平，而是基於原則和正義的和平。」，艾奎諾夫人（Corazon Aquino；1933－2009）



推倒高牆的那一天~

於群魔狂舞的板蕩末世，戴上耳機，那發自內心深處淡淡的惆悵，讓人不由得動容再三，讓我哭泣，是的，憐憫我吧！使我獲得仁慈的解脫。

觀點

Mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato singing "Lascia ch'io pianga" from Händel's opera Rinaldo, accompanied by Il Pomo d'Oro.
This was part of German TV programme ZDF's broadcast "The Venice of Donna Leon" May 2013.

Joyce DiDonato - Lascia ch'io pianga

George Friedrich Händel - Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte, from Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7, 1711 | Philippe Jaroussky, 2016. 

"Lascia ch'io pianga
mia cruda sorte,
e che sospiri
la libertà.

Il duolo infranga
queste ritorte
de' miei martiri
sol per pietà.


"Let me weep over
my cruel fate,
and that I may sigh for
freedom

Let my sadness shatter
these chains
of my suffering,
if only out of pity.


Other Performances: 
Philippe Jaroussky - Ombra mai fù https://youtu.be/MQm2C5UrERg

Lascia ch’io pianga, originally Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa, is an Italian-language soprano aria by composer George Frideric Handel that has become a popular concert piece. Its melody is first found in Act III of Handel’s 1705 opera Almira as a sarabande; the score for this can be seen on page 81 of Vol. 55 of Chrysander. Handel then used the tune for the aria Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa, or Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose, for the character Piacere in Part II of his 1707 oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (which was much later, in 1737, revised as Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità). Four years after that, in 1711, Handel used the music again, this time for his London opera Rinaldo and its Act II aria Lascia ch’io pianga, or Leave Me to Weep, sung by the character Almirena, a soprano role taken by Isabella Girardeau in the premiere. Rinaldo was a triumph, and it is with this work that the aria is chiefly associated.

After composing two Italian operas for Hamburg, two Italian oratorios for Rome, and a third Italian opera for Venice, George Frideric Handel moved to England in 1710 to compose his first Italian opera for London. Produced in the Queen's Theater in the Haymarket on February 24, 1711, Rinaldo would certainly have been an enormous success if the librettist and impresario Aaron Hill had not neglected to pay the tradesmen, thereby causing the Lord Chamberlain to revoke Hill's theater license nine days after the premiere. But Rinaldo paved the way for the quick success of Handel and Italian opera in London and the work was revived in 1712, then again in 1717, and again in 1731.

Hill's libretto is based on Tasso's epic poem on the First Crusade Gerusalamme liberata, but with a new plot and a new female lead to give the story appeal to a then-contemporary London audience. Handel's music is in part a pastiche drawn from many of his earlier dramatic works, and in part a newly composed work with deeply expressive arias and recitative adorned with extravagant trumpet and woodwind writing. Together, Hill's libretto and Handel's music create a powerful and plangent opera with strong and sympathetic leads in Rinaldo and Almirenda and a superbly coherent and convincing score.

歷史上的昨天、今天與明天

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