From a copy of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, copied by… December 5, 2011 January 23, 2018 From a copy of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, copied by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Sixtus IV, Italy, 1483. The state of the semester and (by very ambitious extension) the planet. December, finals week. [or: it’s not procrastination if this is even remotely work-related]