
Filles doibvent estre gardees.
EVIDENCE, ET DIALOGISME.
C’est l’effigie a la vierge Pallas.[1]
Et son Dragon mis a ses piedz a bas
D. Tel animal, Pourquoy ha la Deesse?
R. (Des lieux sacrez, & temples la garde est ce.)[2]
Les vierges fault garder diligemment
Car amour tend ses rhetz incessamment.[3]
Pallas vierge represente les filles, & le vi-
gilant serpent sapience, Par laquelle les fil-
les doibvent estre vigilamment gardées.
1. Pallas Athene, virgin goddess and protectress of the city of Athens, represented with helmet, spear and aegis. Pallas Athene was equated with Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom. Pausanias, Periegesis 1.24.7 mentions such a statue with a snake.
2. See Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.20.3: ‘the snake with its keen and ever-watchful sight has assigned to it the custodianship of temples, shrines, oracles and treasures.’ Ancient Greek holy sites often housed a snake.
3. ‘Love lays his snares on every side’ - a proverbial saying.
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- Aegis: shield with Gorgon's head (attribute of Minerva) [92C281] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ holding a piece of drapery which blows out) [31A2515(+9331)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards (+ holding something) [31A2513(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- armour [45C22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Minerva (with NAME) [92C28(ARMOUR)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Minerva (with NAME) [92C28(DRAGON)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Minerva (with NAME) [92C28(HELMET)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Minerva (with NAME) [92C28(LANCE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dragon (large fabulous serpent, sometimes with wings and legs) [25FF422] Search | Browse Iconclass
- drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' [41D27] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of birds (+ flying animal(s)) [25F31(+5262)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the left - AA - female human figure [31AA2421] Search | Browse Iconclass
- helmet [45C221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- helved weapons, polearms (for striking, hacking, thrusting): lance [45C14(LANCE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mask, mascaron ~ ornament [48A98211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Minerva as patroness [92C271] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- protective weapons: shield [45C19(SHIELD)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shoes, sandals (+ women's clothes) [41D2332(+82)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- snakes (+ animals used symbolically) [25F42(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- standing on one leg, the other leg held sideways, bent - AA - female human figure (+ standing) [31AA26242(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- temple, shrine ~ non-Christian religions [12B61] Search | Browse Iconclass
- winds [26C] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- 'Verginità' (Ripa) [31A72110] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) [92D1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Protection; 'Custodia', 'Difesa contra nimici, malefici & venefici', 'Difesa contra pericoli', 'Riparo da i tradimenti' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54E42(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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