30 July
Born in 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect.
Above: The Last Judgement, a fresco in the dome of Florence Cathedral. Begun by Vasari in 1572, it was unfinished at the time of his death in 1574 and completed by Federico Zuccari.
Also, born in 1912, British poet Anne Ridler.
Some stanzas from Ridler’s 1959 poem, “Nothing is Lost”:
