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Charles Frederick Ward The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose…

Ne Genius ne permet pas paradis aux
folz amoureulx, comme li met sus dame Eloquance, car il
parle de ceulx qui exercitent bonnement les œuures de nature.
Ce n’est pas tout ung, exerciter les euures de nature bonnement
et estre fol amoureulx; ne Nature ne Genius n’enortent pas
650c’on soit fol amoureux, mais ilz enortent suyure les euures de
nature, lesquelz sont licites aux fins auxquelz ilz les enortent
d’exerciter, c’est assauoir, pour continuer l’espesse humaine,
et pour delaisser l’euure contraire a nature, qui est abhominnable
a plus exprimer.
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Charles Frederick Ward The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose…

As we shall see, Gerson, Chancellor of the University of Paris, saw the danger to morals in the average man’s reception of a poem which tended to free him from all restraint. Christine de Pisan, too, with a much narrower range of thought, assails with singular energy and with the courage of her convictions a book which contains so many attacks on her sex.
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Charles Frederick Ward The Epistles on the Romance of the Rose…

His latinity was above the average of his time, but he tried to treat Latin like a living language, i.e., as a means of expression for all his ideas.
He was charged with paganism because he inscribed the ten laws of Lycurgus on the portico of his house, and confessed that he preferred them to evangelical principles. This is in the spirit of the real Renaissance, divided between faith and reason. This dilemma, whatever may be said, separates the Middle Ages from the Renaissance, since each age gives a different answer to the question.
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