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Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft Fall 2003 $5.00 Petrarch: Reviving the Great Minds of the Past After legal studies, Petrarch of the past that had built took minor orders and became an civilization, just because those ecclesiastical bureaucrat serving ideas came from ‘pagans.’ Had not the Avignon Papacy. As his Augustine stood on the shoulders literary talent became recognized, of the ancients, to become the EIRNS/Michael Minnicino he was offered a series of sinecures greatest of all Church Fathers? By that allowed him to devote much allowing the great ideas of the past of his time to poetry. In 1336, he to ‘waste and spoil, through our rancesco Petrarch’s world was climbed Mount Ventoux in own cruel and insufferable Fcharacterized by horrors that southern France, carrying along a neglect,’wrote Petrarch, we fail ‘to appeared truly apocalyptic: the copy of his beloved St. Augustine’s cultivate our own talents, thereby worst economic collapse in history; Confessions. At the summit, depriving the future of the fruits the deadliest pandemic; global contemplating his mortality, that they might have yielded.’ combat between Christian and Petrarch realized that his arduous The arduous climb to which non-Christian; religious schism; climb was the metaphor for the Petrarch committed the rest of his and constant war and popular remaining years of his life. life was to end the dark period of insurrection throughout Europe. Petrarch soon reached a human ignorance, and bring alive Petrarch’s lifetime (1304-1374) profound understanding: The again the mental life of all the coincides almost exactly with the seeming impotence of humanity great minds of the past. transfer of the Papacy from Rome to prevent the ceaseless wars and to Avignon in France from 1309 to fratricide and political chaos of the [SEE ‘The Renaissance and 1377. This de facto kidnapping was time was not the ‘will of God,’ but the Rediscovery of Plato one part of a complex controversy rather the failing of man. For and the Greeks’] that dominated Christendom in hundreds of years, Christian the Thirteenth and Fourteenth thinkers had ignored a true centuries, over the limits of the understanding of the great ideas secular power of the Papacy to command kings and, more important, levy taxes. Benozzo Gozzoli, ‘Journey of the Magi,’ 1459 (detail). The fresco subject was chosen to celebrate the 1437 Council of Florence, and portrays the gathering together of the Council participants from both the West and the East, in their attempt to unify the Christian churches on the basis of newly revived Platonic theology. The Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople appears on horseback to the left. Alinari/Art Resource, NY “It is through beauty that one proceeds to freedom.” —Friedrich Schiller Vol. XII, No. 3 Fall 2003 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF William F. Wertz, Jr. 4 EDITOR Believing Is Not Kenneth Kronberg Necessarily Knowing Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. ART DIRECTOR Alan Yue BOOKS 36 Denise Henderson The Renaissance, and the Rediscovery of Plato and the Greeks Fidelio (ISSN 1059-9126) is Torbjörn Jerlerup published by the Schiller Institute, Inc., P.O. Box 20244, Washington, D.C. 20041-0244. www.schillerinstitute.org 56 Editorial services are provided The Joy of Reading by KMW Publishing Company, Inc. © Schiller Don Quixote Institute, Inc. Carlos Wesley Fidelio is dedicated to the promotion of a new Golden Renaissance based upon the 74 concept of agap¯e or charity, as Shattering Axioms, Fighting that is reflected in the creation of For Our Future! artistic beauty, the scientific mastery of the laws of the A PRESENTATION BY THE physical universe, and the LAROUCHE YOUTH MOVEMENT practice of republican statecraft for the benefit of our fellow man. Subscriptions by mail are $20.00 for 4 issues in the U.S. and Canada. Airmail subscriptions to other countries are $40.00 for 4 issues. Editorial 2 The Roosevelt Syndrome Payment must be made in U.S. currency. Make check or News 105 LaRouche in Turkey: ‘Remove Cheney from Power’ money order payable to 105 Maestro Briano Visits Los Angeles Schiller Institute, Inc. Obituary 107 Graham Lowry’s Historic Mission Commentary 108 The Immense Debt of Ibero-America to the On the Cover German-Jewish Renaissance Rembrandt van Rijn, Homer Dictating to a Scribe (1663). Books 109 The Shaman’s Coat “Sense perception is not necessarily knowing.” (Scala/Art Resource, NY) FIDPD-12-03 U.S., as “Synarchism: Nazi/Communist.” This Synarchist association, steered by a consortium of private family banking interests, was the creator and controller of a network of fascist governments including Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Franco’s The Roosevelt Spain, and the Vichy and Laval governments of war- time France, and, also, a network of Nazi Party-run Syndrome Synarchists, coordinated through Spain, and subversive movements run from Mexico on south, throughout South America. This same Synarchist The following excerpt is taken from a statement entitled, network is the agency behind those so-called neo- “The DLC Wanes: Sewers Are Often Suburban,” issued conservatives, grouped around Cheney and Rumsfeld, by Lyndon LaRouche on July 29, 2003 in his capacity as a which has used the clearly intended effect of Sept. 11, Democratic pre-candidate for the U.S. Presidency. We 2001, to virtually take over the U.S. government’s publish this excerpt as our editorial in this issue of Fidelio, domestic and foreign policies. This Synarchist faction because it so succinctly identifies the primary threat to the is the present political enemy which every U.S. patriot world today as coming from the Synarchist circles of Vice must be prepared to defeat; any different view is not President Dick Cheney. At the only a foolish one, but also a same time, it identifies the only potentially fatal error, an alternative to such a threat today EDITORIAL error now already as the impeachment of Cheney threatening our constitutional and his Straussian “chicken- form of government. hawk” neo-conservatives, and the implementation of an When the 1940 Nazi defeat of the continental forces approach in the U.S. similar to that taken successfully by of France, Belgium, and Britain put Western Europe Franklin D. Roosevelt, when faced with a similar under Hitler’s domination, Britain’s Winston Churchill Synarchist threat in the 1930’s and ’40’s. and our Franklin Roosevelt faced the following, horrifying prospect. Were the British naval forces to fall oday, any serious discussion of electoral into the hands of Hitler at that time, a combination of strategies begins with a reference to the nearly Nazi-led, Synarchist-created fascist regimes in Tcomparable situation which faced Franklin Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Japan, would Roosevelt, from the time of his 1932 election- proceed to gobble up the Soviet Union and then present campaign, until his death. No Presidential candidate the U.S.A. with a hopeless situation, a prospective should be seriously considered for the nomination, strategic threat to it, from the combined naval and other unless and until he or she recognizes certain crucial forces of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. On similarities between the situation which Roosevelt this account, President Roosevelt and Churchill reached faced then, and what you would have heard already agreement on a politically very difficult alliance between from any competent choice of candidate for the them, an alliance which, with all its enormous defects, Democratic nomination at this time. saved the world from virtual Hell. The principal active threat to the security of our We are in an analogous situation today. The republic, now, as during the quarter-century following difference now, is that the presently grave military the post-World War I Versailles Treaty, is an threat to the U.S.A. comes not from Europe, but from organization which was known to the world’s leading the risk that the nuclear arsenal of the U.S.A. might intelligence services as the Synarchists. This fall under the general control of the Synarchists’ neo- organization was classed in the files of various among conservative circles associated with Cheney and the world’s intelligence services, including those of the Rumsfeld. There are certain added parallels of crucial strategic Visit the Schiller Institute website at importance, including economic parallels, which must be taken into account as the basis for the Democratic www.schillerinstitute.org Party’s policies for the present pre-election campaigns. What became known, after the Versailles Treaty, as 2 the Synarchist International, was the kept property of The Youth at the Brook a consortium of medieval-Venice-style private bankers, By the fountain sat the stripling, as typified by the Banque Worms complex which ran Flowers wove he in a wreath, Vichy and Laval’s France in partnership with the Nazi And he saw them ripped asunder, circles of Hermann Goering et al. The political forces Driven by the waves beneath:— controlled by these bankers were held together by a And my days are so escaping strange, occult variety of freemasonic sect, known as As the fountain flows away! the Martinists. This sect, whose political forces had And so pales my youth before me, later become known as the Synarchists, had been in As the wreath does fast decay. existence since it was formed within the dictatorship of Question not, wherefore I sorrow the world’s first fascist regime, that of the Emperor In the bloomtime of my life! Napoleon Bonaparte. Following Napoleon’s defeat, All is hopeful and rejoicing, the notion of creating a new Europe-wide Empire When the spring renews itself. based on the Napoleonic model, was a design But these thousand sounds of nature, elaborated by the principal writings of such devotees of Which awakens on the plain, the Napoleon image as G.W.F.