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In un ricco senza letere.
On a rich man with no literary pursuits.
Phrizo sedendo sopra il
ricco vello
De l’aurato
Monton per l’onde
varca.
Il che dinota
l’huom, che ricco e sciocco
Regger si lascia a le sfrenate voglie
O
de la moglie, o de famigli avari.
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CONSILIO ET VIRTUTE CHI-
meram superari id est fortiores
& deceptores.
Wisdom and courage defeat Chimaera (i.e. the powerful and deceivers).
Bellerophon ut fortis eques superare chimeram, [M]
Et licii potuit sternere monstra soli.[1]
Sic tu pegasei vectus petis aethera pennis,
Consilioque animi[2] monstra superba domas.
Bellerophon, that bold horseman, was able to overcome the Chimaera and lay low the monsters of the Lycian land. You likewise, borne on wings of Pegasus, seek the high heavens and, by the counsel of reason, tame proud monsters.
[Marginalia - link to text]Vide Fulgentium in Mithalogiis lib. 3. in principio.
1. The King of Lycia imposed on Bellerophon, among other tasks, that of killing the Chimaera, a fire-breathing monster with a lion’s head, serpent’s tail and goat’s body. He achieved this last with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus, which Athena, goddess of wisdom, helped him to catch.
2. ‘by the counsel of reason’. The name Bellerophon was interpreted by some as ‘bringer of counsel’. The Chimaera symbolised various uncontrolled passions.
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