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288 i Flora Unveiled He goes on to liken the aftermath of a storm to reconciliation after a lovers’ quarrel: Our love affair mov ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 289 289 289 object of the lover’s affections was “a married lady of high rank” for whom he could onl ...

290 i Flora Unveiled Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 291 291 291 Aristotle listed seven definitions of physis in Metaphysics, concluding that the term en ...

292 i Flora Unveiled replace, the biblical narrative. Nevertheless, his work suggests the lingering appeal of con- cepts associa ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 293 293 293 A famously explicit example of the association of roses with female sexuality is the thi ...

294 i Flora Unveiled in the tradition of courtly love— into an erudite, but bawdy satire.^17 His conclusion to the poem provoked ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 295 295 295 where Narcissus met his death, he sees the reflection of a beautiful rosebud (the virgin ...

296 i Flora Unveiled But, none the less, the blossom never closed against me, even when ‘twas snatched away. Jean de Meun’s leng ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 297 297 297 In a radical departure from the tradition of courtly love, Jean de Meun’s Lover impreg- ...

298 i Flora Unveiled It seems unlikely that Catullus’s poem represents an isolated instance in late antiquity of the use of “def ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 299 299 299 considered it a heavenly sign that malum, the Latin word for apple, was identical to mal ...

300 i Flora Unveiled The sexualized tree- grafting ritual suggests a folk tradition that could be quite ancient, perhaps extendi ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 301 301 301 He rules out copulation in plants because “lust requireth a voluntary motion,” which pla ...

302 i Flora Unveiled Finally, Mary’s title “Mystic Rose” is illustrated in the exquisite eighteenth- century engrav- ing by the ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 303 303 303 the Holy Trinity in that event. In addition to their beauty and fragrance, the fact that ...

Figure 11.3 Mary is portrayed as the Mystic Rose in this engraving by Josef Sebastian Klauber (d. 1768) of Augsburg. Permission ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 305 305 305 Women and Flowers in Early Renaissance Poetry and Art During the early Renaissance, arti ...

Figure 11.4 Chloris and Flora, detail from Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (Spring). From the Uffizi Gallery; Wikimedia Commons. ...

The Rebirth of Naturalism j 307 307 307 Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, and the Revival of Descriptive Botany As we have seen, aft ...