January 2, 2024
ART DECO 1925 BRADLEY& HUBBARD B&H DANTE&HOMER BOOKENDS
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It is my pleasure to offer you today an absolutely gorgeous set of B&H bookends, circa 1925. Bradley & Hubbard was one of the leading manufacturers of lamps, clocks, bookends, etc...High quality at its best, their attention to detail and unique subject matter has made them still today one of the most highly sought after manufacturers. Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical:The date of Homer's existence was controversial in antiquity and is no less so today. Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BC;but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the supposed time of the Trojan War.] For modern scholarship, "the date of Homer" refers to the date of the poems' conception as much as to the lifetime of an individual. Durante degli Alighieri, (May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, is the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later called "Divina" (divine) by Boccaccio hence "Divina Commedia").Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language". The first biography
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