Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment by Danijela Kambaskovic

Author:Danijela Kambaskovic
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

For LeFèvre, then, his Vieille was an amusing and bawdy pseudo-biography of a famous classical poet, a compendium of knowledge on serious topics, an opportunity to show off his erudition and training in the seven liberal arts, and perhaps also a knowing parody of overconfident scholasticism.15

The majority of the scholarly material in De vetula is to be found in Book 3, which relates the protagonist’s post-erotic pursuit of knowledge of God through the study of the liberal arts, especially the quadrivium.16 However, the first two books also present much learned information on the natural sciences, integrated loosely into his account of his amorous pursuits. For instance, the narrator, preparing himself for love, claims that although he is going to shave, his strong beard is a sign that he will be a good lover:

You can judge performance in the trousers from the thatch on the chin.17

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