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Tag Archives: Petronius Satyricon
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: fellini and creative crudeness
Fellini’s Satyricon- a pagan spectacle as it was in Nero’s time and certainly may be in our own… All the scenes of Fellini’s Satyricon possess a nightmarish vividness. Fellini took Petronius’s account and gave it a suitably phantasmgoric story line, … Continue reading
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Tagged Frederico Fellini, Petronius Satyricon
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“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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nature over intellect
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect. The human comedy where hedonism replaces heroism. Tragic heroes die for what is nobler in the mind, comic heroes live for what is livelier in the flesh. The tragic … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Boccaccio Decameron, Charles Dibdin, Christopher Fry, G. Wappers paintings, Gaius Petronius, henri Bergson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Bergson, Petronius Satyricon, Roberto Benigni, Saint Thomas Aquinas, To Rome With Love 2012, Woody Allen
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beginning with the happy ending
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura,” nature over intellect. And the happies tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…Laughter in the house… …Homer’s Iliad concludes with a funeral, the initial event in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Daniel Rabel Sketches, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orestes and Aegisthus, Petronius Satyricon, Robert Smirke paintings, Shakespeare Falstaff, Shakespeare Hotspur
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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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