In art, Cupid often appears in multiples as the Amores /əˈmɔːriːz/ (in the later terminology of art history, Italian amorini), the equivalent of the Greek Erotes. Cupids are a frequent motif of both Roman art and later Western art of the classical tradition. In the 15th century, the iconography of Cupid starts to become indistinguishable from the putto.
Più complessi, invece, i temi che fanno da sfondo alle riproposizioni di una storia favorita da artisti di ogni tempo, vale a dire quella degli amori di Sofonisba, Massinissa e Siface (Livio, 30). Ketterer ne discute al cap. 4, prendendo in esame lo Scipione Affricano di Francesco Cavalli, e rintracciandovi influenze della produzione ovidiana, soprattutto nel modo in cui è tratteggiata la protagonista.
The theory, casuistic and subtle, appealed momentarily to a society thathad no theories at all. It particularly appealed to women. Matrimony hadnot always been propitious to them. Barring death or annulment the brandof the ceremony was ineffaceable. In England Henry VIII maintained thebrand but, by means of divorce which he prescribed for himself, herendered it cumulative, a process which Parliament,[Pg 205] subsequentlypetitioned by Milton, regularized. In Italy meanwhile the pseudo-platonismwhich Ficino and Bembo were expounding, omitted any interference with it.In the corpus juris amoris matrimony was held to be incompatible with loveand pseudo-platonism, going a step further, eliminated even thepossibility of it. Pseudo-platonism maintained that if happiness consistsin love and love consists in yielding, yielding itself has its degrees.There is the yielding of the body and of the soul, the yielding of the onewithout the other, the yielding of the second without the first.Platonism, as interpreted by pseudo-platonists, was the yielding of thesecond, matrimony the yielding of the first. But into that yielding it hadalready shown that not delight but its contrary enters.
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