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Showing posts with label De Planctu Naturae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label De Planctu Naturae. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 14 and Conclusion

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GENIUS MAKES HIS ENTRANCE AMIDST JOYFUL MUSIC. He wears a coat of many colors, displayed seriatim: purple, then hyacinth, then scarlet, the...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 13

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NATURE'S SORROW AND NATURE'S RIGHTEOUS ANGER is shared by all the virtues. The virtues all gathered around her, as nobles around a ...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 12

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MODERATION, MODERATION, MODERATION. This is Nature's advice on avoiding the vices. This is the wisdom of the ancients. "Nothing ...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 11

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NATURE TURNS HER ATTENTION TO ARROGANCE as the next vice that infects men's minds as if it were a tumor or disease. It shows itself in p...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 10

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IDOLATRY HAS ANOTHER DAUGHTER in addition to the two in charge of plying men to overeat and overdrink. Avarice. Avaritia . Nature labels Ava...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 9

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"VIRTUE IS NOTHING OTHER THAN NATURE completed in istelf and brought to perfection," says Cicero in his De Legibus: es t autem vir...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 8

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NATURE CONTINUES TO ELABORATE the intricate grammatical instructions she conveyed to Venus her subagent. As we had discussed in our earlier...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 7

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NATURE ANSWERS THE POET'S QUERY regarding the nature of Desire with a poem in elegiac meter. Desire ( cupido ) or cupidity is equated wi...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 6

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MEN WHO DISREGARD THE GRAMMAR OR THE LOGIC OF SEXUALITY, that is, the ratio ordinis inherent in Nature's plan, deserve to be punished. ...