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... elements of Rhetoric took their place alongside faith, logic and intuition as authorities for the validation of meaning. Throughout the whole of the period I am considering, during classi- cal, medieval and Renaissance times in Western ...
... elements of Rhetoric took their place alongside faith, logic and intuition as authorities for the validation of meaning. Throughout the whole of the period I am considering, during classi- cal, medieval and Renaissance times in Western ...
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... elements of Pythagoreanism were the cults of Orpheus and Dionysius, and before them the fertility cults of even ... elements of numbers to be the. Figure 1 The familiar outline of Pythago- ras' theorem from a 9th century manu- script of ...
... elements of Pythagoreanism were the cults of Orpheus and Dionysius, and before them the fertility cults of even ... elements of numbers to be the. Figure 1 The familiar outline of Pythago- ras' theorem from a 9th century manu- script of ...
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nature, they supposed the elements of numbers to be the elements of all things.” 1 According to Pythagoras, numbers were more than just symbols of the objects they represented, they actually embodied those objects, a phe- nomenon that ...
nature, they supposed the elements of numbers to be the elements of all things.” 1 According to Pythagoras, numbers were more than just symbols of the objects they represented, they actually embodied those objects, a phe- nomenon that ...
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... elements of the macrocosm . In a metaphor frequently quoted in the Middle Ages , Macrobius writing in the 5th Cen- tury , described God's act of creation thus : since , from the Supreme God Mind arises , and from the Mind , Soul and ...
... elements of the macrocosm . In a metaphor frequently quoted in the Middle Ages , Macrobius writing in the 5th Cen- tury , described God's act of creation thus : since , from the Supreme God Mind arises , and from the Mind , Soul and ...
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... element of Platonism fitted neatly with the Christian. 1 This triad was symbolized in antiquity and in Renaissance ... elements : mind , courage and desire . See for instance , Raphael's painting , The Dream of Scipio , where Scipio is ...
... element of Platonism fitted neatly with the Christian. 1 This triad was symbolized in antiquity and in Renaissance ... elements : mind , courage and desire . See for instance , Raphael's painting , The Dream of Scipio , where Scipio is ...
Índice
The Renaissance | 208 |
Emblem and Device | 248 |
The Philosophy of Images | 296 |
The Decline of Symbolism | 318 |
Epilogue | 340 |
Species of Symbolic Literature 342 | 392 |
List of Illustrations 344 | 344 |
Index 369 | 369 |
The Allegorical Tradition | 190 |
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17th Century According Aesop age of symbolism Alain de Lille alchemy Alciato allegory ancient Anthology Aquinas Aristotle Aristotle’s Art of Memory Augustine authors blem Christian Church cited classical collection commentary concept contemporary culture decoration depicted derived described discussion divine early edition Egyptian elements emblem book emblem writers Emblemata Emblematica emblems and devices English emblem epigrams Erasmus Estienne example fables Ficino Figure genre Gnosticism Gracian Greek Henri Estienne Hermes Hermes Trismegistus Hieroglyphica hieroglyphs Horapollo Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ideas illustrated images inspiration interpretation Kabbala language later Latin literary literature London magic meaning medieval Menestrier metaphor Middle Ages modern moral motif motto mystical myths nature origin Ovid philosophical picture Platonic Plotinus poem poet poetic poetry Poliphili printed proverbs published Pythagoras reference Renaissance Rhetoric Roman scriptures signified soul spiritual Stobaeus story Tesauro theme theology theory things tion tradition trans translation treatise universe word written wrote
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Página 82 - According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Página 166 - FALSE world, thou ly'st : thou canst not lend The least delight : Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight : Thy morning pleasures make an end To please at night : Poor are the wants that thou supply'st : And yet thou vaunt'st, and yet thou vy'st With Heaven ; fond earth, thou boast'st ; false world, thou ly'st.
Página 319 - Thus there are two Books from whence I collect my Divinity ; besides that written one of GOD, another of His servant Nature, that universal and publick manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all : those that never saw Him in the one, have discovered Him in the other.
Página 123 - By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest that the Poet, with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth...
Página 71 - He answered and said unto them, 'Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Página 247 - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart.' Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Página 131 - This ornament we speake of is giuen to it by figures and figuratiue speaches, which be the flowers, as it were, and coulours that a Poet setteth vpon his language of arte, as the embroderer doth his stone and perle or passements of gold vpon the stuffe of a Princely garment...
Página 19 - Since, from the Supreme God Mind arises, and from Mind, Soul, and since this in turn creates all subsequent things and fills them all with life, and since this single radiance illumines...
Página 11 - ... they saw that the modifications and the ratios of the musical scales were expressible in numbers; - since, then, all other things seemed in their whole nature to be modelled on numbers, and numbers seemed to be the first things in the whole of nature, they supposed the elements of numbers to be the elements of all things, and the whole heaven to be a musical scale and a number.
Página 62 - Know, first, that heaven and earth's compacted frame, And flowing waters, and the starry flame, And both the radiant lights, one common soul Inspires and feeds, and animates the whole.