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...history of a bigger mystery, I have written this story into my song. If it isn’t what you're used to, I hope it will amuse you. And maybe if you choose to then you’ll sing along. It goes: ‘I am as old as the universe, I’ve been here before and I’ll be here again. I am a child of the universe, A part of all women and a part of all men.’ Once upon a sometime and...

...family, the Medicis, seized power in 1434, marking the beginning fifty year rule. With their wealth and influence, the Medicis encouraged a vibrant exchange of intellectual, artistic, political and philosophical ideas, which enabled Florence to enjoy a period of unrivalled cultural activity. Cosimo Medici was patron to Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico and Fillippo...

...history back to the beginning of the seventh century, whence you can look back further still to the earliest Christian temples where the Romans worshipped with the Britons, whom they had enslaved and converted. But it was not till 627 that the little wooden chapel was built on the site of the Minster, to house the rite of the Northumbrian King Eadwine's baptism. He felt...

...family. Thus I proceeded to live, but five years ago something very strange began to happen to me: I was overcome by minutes at first of perplexity and then of an arrest of life, as though I did not know how to live or what to do, and I lost myself and was dejected. But that passed, and I continued to live as before. Then those minutes of perplexity were repeated oftener...