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| flowers, flowers, flowers : charles williams describes the way of rejection (center) as best depicted by dionysius the areopagite, and the way of affirmation (circumference) as best depicted by dante through beatrice : in canto 02 virgil is approached by beatrice who is approached by lucia, who is in turn approached by 'a lady in heaven, with grace enough to prevent the judgment' of dante, this unnamed woman thrice removed from dante is evidently Mary : mâle discusses st. bernard, who 'wrote at length on the Song of Songs applied all its metaphors to Mary' : regarding thirteenth century depictions of the annunciation, mâle: the appearance in this period of 'a symbolic detail ... a flower with a long stalk is placed in a vase between the Virgin and the angel' ... '... the mediæval doctors taught that the Annunciation took place in the springtime, "at the time of flowers," and they thought to find support for this in the name Nazareth, which signifies a "flower." So that St. Bernard could say : "The flower willed to be born of a flower, in a flower, at the time of flowers" |
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