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La gula.
Ottava rhima.
Muy largo como grulla el cuello tiene
Y el cuerpo y vientre gonfo y barrigudo
Y un Laro ò Croto en
las manos sostiene.[1] [M]
Tal fue Dionysio,[2] y tal el otro embudo
Llamado Apico,[3] y tal facion conviene [M]
A quien renombre da su vientre rudo.
[Marginalia - link to text]Aves.
[Marginalia - link to text]Tyrannos.
1. These birds were symbols of ravenous greed. The pelican is called inexplebile animal, ‘insatiable creature’, by Pliny, Natural History, 10.66.131; cf. Emblem 195 ([A49a195]). For the gull, see Erasmus, Adagia, 1133 (Larus: the gull will also fit food-suppliers because it is a bird with an appetite for fish).
2. Dionysius II, Tyrant of Syracuse. After his deposition, he lived in Corinth, and many anecdotes were told of his indulgent way of life there, including the story that he died of being overweight.
3. Apicius was a famous gourmet of the time of the Emperor Tiberius. See Seneca, De consolatione, 10.8-9 and Martial, Epigrams, 3.22: he spent a hundred million sesterces on food items and committed suicide for fear of starvation on discovering that he had only one million left. He composed two cookery books, but the one which has come down to us under his name is a fourth- to fifth-century compilation drawing on his works and several others (ed. princ. Le Signerre, Milan 1498).
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