THE NP CHRONICLE : 6TH MARCH

               The NP Chronicle 

                       6th March

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era.

"I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

                         -- Michelangelo 

"A man paints with his brain and not with his hands."

                         -- Michelangelo 

Gabriel José García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

"The secret of good old-age is none other than an honest pact with solitude."

                    -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

"I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."

                    -- Gabriel Garcia Marqez 

"The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom."

                    -- Gabriel Garcia Marqez 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.

"Whoever lives true life will love true love."

                    -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

"Light tomorrow with today."

                    -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Today is:

▪︎ European Day of the Righteous 

▪︎ Ghana's Independence Day 

▪︎ National Dentist Day

▪︎ Birth anniversary of Michelangelo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

▪︎ Death anniversary of Gottlieb Daimler