Pudicitia (Ripa, 1625) - Giuseppe Cesari
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Date :
1625
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Gravure sur bois
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Description
Part 2 of the book.
History :
- « A young girl dressed in white, wearing a veil of the same color on her head, covering her face down to her waist, holding a white lily in her right hand, and a tortoise under her right foot. She is dressed in white because this color symbolizes purity and integrity of life, from which modesty derives. Solomon, wishing to persuade Candor and sincerity of the soul, says: In omni tempore candida sint vestimenta tua. St. Peter ordered that all women enter the temple veiled, and his successor, Pope Linus, enforced this order, as Platina recounts in his life. She holds a white lily in her right hand, because St. Jerome, writing against Jovinian, interprets the lily as the flower of modesty and virginity, while in the Song of Songs, the heavenly bride sings Pascitur inter lilia, that is, among chaste and modest people. The tortoise shows that modest women must remain diligently in their homes, as the tortoise does in… »
- Parte seconda, p. 538.
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Technical Data
Notice #001155
Past ID :
A0474
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Image web