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Petrarchist Motives
Based on Forster, The Icy Fire (pp. 8-23), we have built a simple list of Petrarchist motives and their occurrences in Heinsius's Emblemata amatoria.- External motives
(ip041, 7 occurrence(s))
- Praise of the lady
(ip0411, 3 occurrence(s))
- Physical and spiritual perfection, described in hyperbolical terms
(ip04111, 2 occurrence(s))
- Iconographical description of her individual beauties
(ip04112, 1 occurrence(s))
- Beauties described using metaphorical or mythological associations
(ip04113)
- Beauties described in terms of the effect on the lover
(ip04114)
- Entire poems, or cycles of poems, devoted to one feature or object of the beloved
(ip04115)
- Limitless accomplishments, the most admired her musical abilities
(ip04116)
- Physical and spiritual perfection, described in hyperbolical terms
(ip04111, 2 occurrence(s))
- Places associated with the beloved
(ip0412, 4 occurrence(s))
- Scenery in which the lover wanders, to meditate upon his love, or to forget it
(ip04121, 1 occurrence(s))
- Location of the first meeting
(ip04122, 1 occurrence(s))
- Place where the beloved lives or which she recently has visited
(ip04123)
- Location of the first embrace, mostly a garden, grove or grotto
(ip04124, 2 occurrence(s))
- Scenery in which the lover wanders, to meditate upon his love, or to forget it
(ip04121, 1 occurrence(s))
- Fictional representations (dreams (mostly), visions, imagination
(ip0413)
- Physical reunion with the beloved in dreams
(ip04131)
- Reunion with the dead beloved
(ip041311)
- Reunion with the beloved who is still alive, but unattainable
(ip041312)
- Reunion with the dead beloved
(ip041311)
- Metaphysical elaboration of the contrast between illusion and reality
(ip04132)
- Physical reunion with the beloved in dreams
(ip04131)
- Praise of the lady
(ip0411, 3 occurrence(s))
- Internal motives
(ip042, 43 occurrence(s))
- The bitter-sweet nature of love
(ip0421, 20 occurrence(s))
- Interpenetration of pleasure and pain, satisfaction in an uneasy balance between them
(ip04211, 15 occurrence(s))
- Lady as a sweet enemy
(ip04212)
- Love compared to war, described in military imagery
(ip04213)
- Freedom-servitude paradox, service of the lady is highest freedom; prison, bondage imagery.
(ip04214, 5 occurrence(s))
- Interpenetration of pleasure and pain, satisfaction in an uneasy balance between them
(ip04211, 15 occurrence(s))
- Theft of the heart or soul
(ip0422)
- Lover’s soul is imprissoned in the beloved’s body
(ip04221)
- Lover without a soul is a walking corpse
(ip04222)
- Exchanging of the soul through a glance or a kiss
(ip04223)
- Lover’s soul is imprissoned in the beloved’s body
(ip04221)
- Total loss of self-possession
(ip0423, 2 occurrence(s))
- Renounciation (temporarily) of his love by the lover
(ip0424, 1 occurrence(s))
- Scorn of women who keep their lovers dangling for ever
(ip04241, 1 occurrence(s))
- Inner justification for rejecting love
(ip04242)
- Praise of the freedom which is regained by rejecting love
(ip04243)
- Scorn of women who keep their lovers dangling for ever
(ip04241, 1 occurrence(s))
- Relations between the lovers
(ip0425, 3 occurrence(s))
- A gracious lady corresponds with a delightfull lover
(ip04251)
- An unkind lady corresponds with a lover in pain (most common)
(ip04252, 3 occurrence(s))
- The lady is unkind, the lover in pain
(ip042521, 2 occurrence(s))
- Lover begs for the beloved to be struck with love
(ip042522, 1 occurrence(s))
- The cruel lady, hard as stone, enjoys the lovers pain
(ip042523)
- The lady is unkind, the lover in pain
(ip042521, 2 occurrence(s))
- Relations and states of minds described in hyperbolical terms
(ip04253)
- A gracious lady corresponds with a delightfull lover
(ip04251)
- Physical effects of love
(ip0426, 1 occurrence(s))
- Physical effects of love
(ip04261, 1 occurrence(s))
- Physical effects of the first meeting with the beloved
(ip04262)
- Physical effects of love
(ip04261, 1 occurrence(s))
- Love as a fire
(ip0427, 8 occurrence(s))
- Flames as a symbol for love
(ip04271, 8 occurrence(s))
- Antithesis between the fire of love and the icy heart of a lady
(ip04272)
- Flames as a symbol for love
(ip04271, 8 occurrence(s))
- Imagery concerned with death
(ip0428, 8 occurrence(s))
- If the lover’s longing is not fulfilled, he dies
(ip04281, 3 occurrence(s))
- The overwhelming presence of the beloved may cause death
(ip04282)
- It is death to be parted and death to be joined
(ip04283, 1 occurrence(s))
- The lover longs for death, as bringing an end to the lover’ sorrows
(ip04284, 1 occurrence(s))
- Lovers are dead alive (death as a state of mind)
(ip04285, 2 occurrence(s))
- Death signifying the (male) orgasm
(ip04286, 1 occurrence(s))
- Christian rephrasing of the death-live paradox (life = eternal life, death = living death on earth
(ip04287)
- If the lover’s longing is not fulfilled, he dies
(ip04281, 3 occurrence(s))
- The bitter-sweet nature of love
(ip0421, 20 occurrence(s))
- Cosmic Motives
(ip043, 3 occurrence(s))
- Love as a cosmic phenomenon
(ip0431)
- Nature can reflect the passions of the lover
(ip04311)
- Love transcends Nature and can therefore cause (contrary) effects in nature
(ip04312)
- Love as an independent cosmic force creates a world of his own
(ip04313)
- Nature can reflect the passions of the lover
(ip04311)
- Systems of cosmic correspondences
(ip0432, 3 occurrence(s))
- Love as a cosmic phenomenon
(ip0431)