Equinoxe
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Well, the Rossetti Family was better than yours, but this was, after all, in the 19th century.
I’m referring, of course, to the children of Gabriele Rossetti and Frances Polidori, although Gabriele Rossetti was rather notable himself as a scholar of Dante Alighieri, after whom he named his son, the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti; who, with his brother the writer and critic William Michael, as well as William Holman Hunt, James Collinson, John Everett Millais, Frederic George Stephens, and Thomas Woolner, founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, rather in reaction to the academic fashion of art at the time. Christina Rossetti is likewise quite important, indeed one of the most important female poets of the Victorian Era (and one of my favourite poets incidentally), generally regarded as being superior to her brother in poesy; with Goblin Market being probably her best known work. Their sister, Maria, was somewhat less important by comparison, though she did write The Shadow of Dante about the poet (it seems the whole family was rather obsessed with the author of the Divine Comedy).
So, to recap:
Gabriele Rossetti, Italian exile Dante scholar
who fathered:
Christina Rossetti, poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter
William Michael Rossetti, writer and critic
and
Maria Francesca Rossetti, writer
They’re better than you, your parents, and any siblings you may have.
This has been my public service announcement.
I’m referring, of course, to the children of Gabriele Rossetti and Frances Polidori, although Gabriele Rossetti was rather notable himself as a scholar of Dante Alighieri, after whom he named his son, the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti; who, with his brother the writer and critic William Michael, as well as William Holman Hunt, James Collinson, John Everett Millais, Frederic George Stephens, and Thomas Woolner, founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, rather in reaction to the academic fashion of art at the time. Christina Rossetti is likewise quite important, indeed one of the most important female poets of the Victorian Era (and one of my favourite poets incidentally), generally regarded as being superior to her brother in poesy; with Goblin Market being probably her best known work. Their sister, Maria, was somewhat less important by comparison, though she did write The Shadow of Dante about the poet (it seems the whole family was rather obsessed with the author of the Divine Comedy).
So, to recap:
Gabriele Rossetti, Italian exile Dante scholar
who fathered:
Christina Rossetti, poet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter
William Michael Rossetti, writer and critic
and
Maria Francesca Rossetti, writer
They’re better than you, your parents, and any siblings you may have.
This has been my public service announcement.
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