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... less interesting because less experimental . But the advantage of recognizing that the orthodox , elegiac Italian and the festive English comedian speak a common language of pastoral Neo - Platonism is considerable . Not that anybody ...
... less interesting because less experimental . But the advantage of recognizing that the orthodox , elegiac Italian and the festive English comedian speak a common language of pastoral Neo - Platonism is considerable . Not that anybody ...
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... less of a finality and more of a religious initiation . But Orpheus , Plato notices , the very founder of rites of initiation , does not give even his earthly life for his beloved.2 In Ficino's commentary on the Symposium the tone taken ...
... less of a finality and more of a religious initiation . But Orpheus , Plato notices , the very founder of rites of initiation , does not give even his earthly life for his beloved.2 In Ficino's commentary on the Symposium the tone taken ...
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... less lifelike than lovelike , as Rossetti says of Beatrice . The formulary language by which Tasso locates the Aminta similarly evokes less a place than a frame of mind . He addresses his audience directly in the prologue but speaks in ...
... less lifelike than lovelike , as Rossetti says of Beatrice . The formulary language by which Tasso locates the Aminta similarly evokes less a place than a frame of mind . He addresses his audience directly in the prologue but speaks in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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