The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies |
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... Pleasure composed on the principle of discordia concors or , as Pico defines it , Beauty.5 The Primavera helps illuminate this crucial pastoral device . In Botticelli's triad of Graces , Chastity and Pleasure are brought face to face in ...
... Pleasure composed on the principle of discordia concors or , as Pico defines it , Beauty.5 The Primavera helps illuminate this crucial pastoral device . In Botticelli's triad of Graces , Chastity and Pleasure are brought face to face in ...
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... pleasure . This both diminishes the shepherd figures and makes them more expressive . As an image of courtly life they are inward but topical . Now the intermedio reflects them under the species of Christian Platonic eternity : Sante ...
... pleasure . This both diminishes the shepherd figures and makes them more expressive . As an image of courtly life they are inward but topical . Now the intermedio reflects them under the species of Christian Platonic eternity : Sante ...
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... pleasure's fancies be . If ever any beauty I did see , Which I desired and got , ' twas but a dream of thee . The shepherd's life , the idyll of childhood , contemplative retreat , the divinity of dreams , virtue and pleasure reconciled ...
... pleasure's fancies be . If ever any beauty I did see , Which I desired and got , ' twas but a dream of thee . The shepherd's life , the idyll of childhood , contemplative retreat , the divinity of dreams , virtue and pleasure reconciled ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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