Rosae sub signo, anotaciones a un símil clásico // Rosae sub signo, Notes on a Classical Simile

Authors

Jesús Ponce Cárdenas, Universidad Complutense de MadridFollow

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/cyms-ds90

Keywords

simile, flower, epithalamium, bride, virginity, rose

Abstract

In the Western tradition, the flower is often imbued of symbolic meaning and associated with beauty, love, and sensuality. This note studies a string of literary relations that can be established around a floral image in the poetry of four Renaissance authors (Pontano, D’Ardenne, Salmon Macrin, Ariosto). Special attention is paid to epithalamia and epic poetry, and to the three main models of the Greco-Roman world (Sappho, Catullus, Claudian).

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