Link to an image of this page [Q4r p247]
El murįielago.
QUARTEL DE SONETO.
Dizen que Chęrophon[1] tomō su nombre
D’el ave que Meneida[2] fue llamada, [M]
Que en tener negro rostro y voz delgada
Pudo de tal seņal sacar renombre.
[Marginalia - link to text]Del murzielago.
1. Chaerophon, a distinguished disciple of Socrates, was nick-named ‘The Bat’ and ‘Boxwood’ for his pale complexion and poor health, supposedly brought on by excessive study. See Aristophanes, Aves, 1564; Philostratus, Vitae sophistarum, 1.482.
2. For the transformation of the daughters of Minyas (the founder of the earliest race of Greeks) into bats, for refusing to worship Dionysus, see Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.389ff.
Related Emblems
Show related emblemsHint: You can set whether related emblems are displayed by default on the preferences page
Iconclass Keywords
Relating to the image:
- night [23R14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- full moon represented as face [24B21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flying mammals: bat (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F28(BAT)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees [25G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- colours, pigments, and paints: black [22C4(BLACK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Repute, Renown; 'Splendore del nome' (Ripa) [59B3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Minyas' daughters changed into bats: having aroused Bacchus' anger by weaving instead of worshipping him, the daughters of Minyas, Leuconoe (Leucippe), Alcithoe and Arsippe, are changed into bats by the god (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 399) [97CC7] Search | Browse Iconclass
- male persons from classical history (with NAME) representations to which the NAME of a person from classical history may be attached [98B(CHAEREPHON)3] Search | Browse Iconclass
Hint: You can turn translations and name underlining on or off using the preferences page.
