If ‘Lycanthropy’ – [a]Patrick Wolf [/a]’s first album – was an exploration of how to transform oneself into another form, then ‘Lupercalia’ is the end result of the experiment. The ...

William Shakespeare, in his iconic play "Hamlet," famously mentioned the sending of valentines, while Edmund Spenser, in his epic poem "Faerie Queene," depicted February 14th as a day for birds to ...

In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius I declared 14th February as St. Valentine’s Day, in an attempt to supplant the pagan festival of Lupercalia with a Christian feast day.