by Sam Cabot
Sam Cabot
January 1, 2013
Khachatur Abovian, b. 1809, Armenian writer.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, b. 996, sixth Fatimid caliph.
Theodosia Burr Alston, b. June 21, 1783, daughter of U.S. vice president Aaron Burr.
Dorothy Arnold, b. 1884, American socialite.
Benjamin Bathurst, b. March 18, 1784, British diplomat.
Ambrose Bierce, b. June 24, 1842, American writer.
Captain James William Boyd, b. 1822, Confederate States of America military officer.
Matthew Brady, b. 1822, American photographer.
Giordano Bruno, b. 1548, Dominican friar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher.
John Cabot, b. 1450, Italian explorer.
Saint Cecilia, b. second century AD, Roman, Catholic martyr and saint, patroness of poets and musicians.
Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, b. 1832, Union Army soldier.
Hart Crane, b. July 21, 1899, American poet.
Joseph Force Crater, b. January 5, 1889, New York judge.
Arthur Cravan (Favian Avenarius Lloyd), b. May 22, 1887, Swiss boxer, poet, surrealist figure.
Emilio de’ Cavalieri, b. 1550, Italian composer.
Amelia Earhart, b. July 24, 1897, American aviatrix.
The Eight Taoist Immortals, b. during Tang or Song Dynasty, Chinese “mythological” characters.
Carlo Gesualdo, b. March 8, 1566, Italian composer.
Franz Greiter, b. 1918, Austrian scientist, inventor of sunscreen.
Jesus of Nazareth, b. 1 AD, central figure of Christianity.
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, b. August 28, 1841, French inventor.
Romualdo Locatelli, b. 1905, Italian painter.
Thomas Lynch, Jr., b. August 5, 1749, American patriot, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Stefano Maderno, b. 1576, Italian sculptor.
Mary Magdalene, b. first century AD, early disciple of Jesus of Nazareth.
Philip Mazzei, b. December 25, 1730, Italian physician, confidant of Thomas Jefferson, originator of the phrase “All men are created equal.”
Methuselah, b. 1,656 years after creation, figure mentioned in Hebrew Bible.
Nefertiti, b. 1370 BC, “Great Royal Wife” of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Ivan Nikitin, b. 1690, Russian painter.
Qin Shi Huang, b. 259 BC, Chinese emperor.
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, b. 250, Christian martyrs.
Spartacus, b. 109 BC, Thracian rebel slave.
Bram Stoker, b. November 8, 1847, Irish novelist.
Horace Sumner, b. 1826, American passenger on ill-fated ship on which Margaret Fuller (American writer) was lost.
Jan van Eyck, b. 1390, Flemish painter.
Yellow Emperor or Huangdi, b. 2724 BC, Chinese emperor, reigned 2696–2598 BC.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Without the hard work of many people, this book would not exist. For that, Sam Cabot would like to thank Damiano Abeni, Dana Cameron, Moira Egan, Conor Fitzgerald, Massimo Gatto, Tom Govero, Betsy Harding, the late Royal Huber, Tyler Lansford, Dermot O’Connell, Franco Onorati, Ingrid Rowland, Tom Savage, Barbara Shoup, the secret map-maker, and all the believers and nonbelievers at Rancho Obsesso. Sam would also like to offer a particular tip of the biretta to Steve Axelrod of The Axelrod Agency, and to David Rosenthal, Vanessa Kehren, and the fine folks at Blue Rider. Grazie.
Without the electricity of Art Workshop International in Assisi, Sam Cabot would not exist. For that, Carlos Dews and S. J. Rozan would like to thank Edith Isaac-Rose, Bea Kreloff, Charles Kreloff, Chris Spencer, and the Hotel Giotto. Pax et bonum.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sam Cabot is the pseudonym of Carlos Dews and S. J. Rozan.
Carlos Dews is an associate professor and chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University, where he directs the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. He lives in Rome, Italy.
S. J. Rozan is the author of many critically acclaimed novels and short stories that have won crime fiction’s greatest honors, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero awards. Born and raised in the Bronx, Rozan now lives in Lower Manhattan.