[lit-ideas] Re: "Patience on a Monument"
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:03:16 +0200
As Ren=E9e Moral had suggested, the riddle of Shakespeare's =
Patience on=20
a monument is indeed solved by Cesare Ripa=A0; to be specific, by the=20
fourth and final entry under the heading =93=A0Patienza=A0=94 in Cesare =
Ripa,=20
Iconologia, Roma MDXCIII, p. 197. Here it is (unless some stupid=20
machine thinks the text I've laboriously typed out is an attachment,=20
and refuses to send it):
Patienza, di et=E0 matura, *=E0 sedere sopra un sasso*, con le mani in=20=
modo, che mostri segno di dolore, & con li piedi ignudi sopra un falcio=20=
di spine.
La pazienza si scopre nel sopporatre i dolori del corpo, & dell=92animo;=20=
per=F2 si dipinge la presente figura in questo atto.
Le spine sono quelle punture, che toccano nell=92honore, =F2 nella =
robba, =F2=20
nella uita, le quali, se bene pungono i piedi, cio=E8 danno fastidio nel=20=
corso de gli affetti terreni, nondimeno lasciano libera la testa, & le=20=
altre membra pi=F9 nobili, perche un=92anima ben regolata, & ben =
disposta=20
sopra alla stabilit=E0 della uirt=F9, non proua il danno fondato nelle =
cose=20
terrene.
*Il sedere sopra il sasso, dimostra, esser dura cosa saper reggere la=20
patienza con animo tranquillo, ma che facilmente si supera*
I've placed the phrases that interest us between asterisks=A0: =
patience=20
is *seated on a rock*, which *...demonstrates that it is a difficult=20
thing to know how to direct patience with a tranquil heart, but that it=20=
can easily be overcome*
Voila. With regard to the argument that emblem books are too =
osbcure=20
to be Shakespeare's source, I say: Balderdash. There's lots of stuff=20
that is obscure in Shakespeare, and Renaissance artists used emblem=20
books as their sources all the time.
Best, Mike.
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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