2026-07-14 14:08 UTC
“As a byword for virtuosity, Cinquevalli’s name is attached to French aviators, Scots soccer players, cricketers W.G. Grace & Ranjitsinhji, the pianist Paderewski, hospital pathologists, aeroplane engineers, a Covent Garden basket-carrier in a Pathé news clip of 1925, college girls exercising good posture in another of 1930, & dozens more.”
—David Hayes, “In Search of Cinquevalli” (Inside Story, 2018)
https://insidestory.org.au/in-search-of-cinquevalli/
#19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-07-14 14:20
The Edwin Morgan Trust has recordings of Edwin Morgan online, including a reading of “Cinquevalli”. Morgan had found the postcard &, “struck by the fact that [Cinquevalli] had been almost forgotten, after once enjoying world fame”, began writing the poem. https://edwinmorgantrust.com/2020/06/02/eddie-morgan-selects-recordings-of-em-reading-his-poems/ #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Cinquevalli