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petronius redux
Petronius’s Satyricon and Fellini’s film version. Two versions of a pagan world as it was in Nero’s time and may be in ours… For Fellini, Satyricon is not crude melodrama or pure fantasy, but a view of paganism as it … Continue reading
satyricon: angering the sex-god priapus
Did Fellini mine the original to create his own brutto spettacolo of a pagan world- as it was in Nero’s time, and as it may be in our own? … In his film adaptation of Petronius’s Satyricon Frederico Fellini created a … Continue reading
“give me life”
Living for what is livelier in the flesh. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s law of the Church: suppress all sensual feelings by force of reason. It is the antithesis of comedy which is the triumph of la forza di natura, the force … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose Bierce The Devoted Widow, Boccaccio Decameron, Fellini Satyricon, Gaius Petronius, Giovanni Boccaccio, Jean de la Fontaine, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Petronius Satyricon, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Widow of Ephesus
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laughter in the house
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura/- nature over intellect. And the happiest tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…laughter in the house. To begin with, the Happy Ending. Aristotle calls it the … Continue reading
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