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... death or to Orfeo's second loss of her . Instead a shadow of the eternal beauty flits before the shepherds who pursue her . No antagonist brings about her death but another of Apollo's shepherd sons , Aristeo . And the death of Orfeo ...
... death or to Orfeo's second loss of her . Instead a shadow of the eternal beauty flits before the shepherds who pursue her . No antagonist brings about her death but another of Apollo's shepherd sons , Aristeo . And the death of Orfeo ...
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... death in Ficino and Pico . Poetic mingling of the languages of love and death or pain and pleasure finds its first important Renaissance model in the Canzoniere of Petrarch , as does pastoral wordplay on landscape and soul . What Ficino ...
... death in Ficino and Pico . Poetic mingling of the languages of love and death or pain and pleasure finds its first important Renaissance model in the Canzoniere of Petrarch , as does pastoral wordplay on landscape and soul . What Ficino ...
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... death . But , as they say in the mysteries , ' the thyrsus - bearers are many , but the Bacchoi are few ' ( Phaedo , 69D ) . And counter to the will to die run the responses of the other nymphs and shepherds , for whom Amore is god of ...
... death . But , as they say in the mysteries , ' the thyrsus - bearers are many , but the Bacchoi are few ' ( Phaedo , 69D ) . And counter to the will to die run the responses of the other nymphs and shepherds , for whom Amore is god of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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