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Giordano Bruno:
Cosmology: Artist
unknown Images of the Planets
from De
Umbris Idearum _________________________________________________________
First: A horned woman riding a dolphin, holding a chameleon in the right hand and a lily in the left. Second: A hooded country man, fishing with a hook with his right hand, and supporting himself on a three-pronged spear, which he holds tightly with his left hand. Third: A woman adorned with many pearls; clad in dazzling white garments; with a crystal vase on her right hand and a cat on her left. Fourth: A woman upon a hydra with three necks from each of which spring seven heads. She holds out her empty hands before her. Fifth: A boy with a silver crown and sceptre, mounted on a chariot drawn by two she-goats. Sixth: A woman with a single horn, with serpents twined around her arms ands legs, riding a panther. Seventh: A hunter, clothed in linen, driving a dog along a wooded ridge; and waking someone up.
First: A most beautiful youth holding a sceptre around which two serpents entwine, with their heads facing in opposite directions. Second: A bearded, handsome youth, crowned with olive, holding a sceptre in his hand, and before whom flames ascend. Third: One having a winged helmet and ankles, carrying a rod in his left hand and a dart in his right. Fourth: A man with a chest-length beard, wearing a toga, who is followed by a girl with a charming face and an attractive body, but with a serpent's tail. Fifth: Someone digging a field, having in his right hand a spear and a reed in his left; and in front of him a calf feeding on green grass. Sixth: A man in the garb of a merchant; and a foreigner with his eyes raised towards the sun and his hands outstretched. Seventh: A boy riding a ram, grasping a horn in his left hand; and his right hand holding a parrot.
First: A girl crowned with myrtle, naked and with ankle-length hair. A white puppy gambols in front of her. Second: An attractive boy carrying a basket of various kinds of flowers, who is followed by a man who looks like a gardener. Third: A naked woman in a crematorium, who seems to have been grafted with the head of a dove and the feet of an eagle. She is followed by a youth, while a man flees before her. Fourth: A woman riding a bull, combing her hair with the right hand and holding a mirror in the left; beside whom is a grown man with a green bird in his hand. Fifth: A boy holding a silver chain; and beside him a naked girl, crowned with Bacchic laurel, who is dancing. Sixth: A boy with wings of gold, who has shining hair, and whose feathers are tinged with a thousand colours, brandishing a flaming javelin. Seventh: A youth and a girl wrestling, both naked, struggling, while someone is binding each to the other with the golden chain he has in his hand.
First: A beautiful, crowned woman, in a golden chariot, drawn by four horses ascending. Second: A very beautiful naked youth wearing on his head a crown woven from many flowers. He fondly embraces a peacock. Third: A youth wearing a diadem from whose head rays of lightning shoot forth. He bears a quiver and a bow. Fourth: A woman embracing and kissing a boy who wears green ankle-length garments. He has red hair and a handsome face and carries a mirror. Fifth: A maiden holding a bronze shield in her left hand and hurling a dart with her right, while seated on a crocodile. Sixth: A man riding a racing lion, which breathes steaming clouds from its nostrils. There is a rooster in his right hand. Seventh: A man in the robes of a pontiff, before whom stand two men with bared heads, wearing red and yellow garments. A golden dog lies at his feet.
First: An armed man riding a lion and wearing a leather helmet. A vulture is tearing at the helmet with his beak. Second: An armed man, bearing sword and lance; on whose helmet is something like a chimera out of whose mouth spout sparks and flames. Third: A man throwing sulphurous flames with his right hand, who has hold of a panther by the nape of its neck with his left hand. He is riding the panther against its will. Fourth: Someone with a face burning like the sun, holding in the right hand a tightly bound torch and, in the left hand, a human head dripping blood. Fifth: A man, tawny in complexion, wearing red clothing; wielding a heavy iron sceptre, riding a wolf. Sixth: One ravishes a beautiful virgin in an ivory chariot drawn by two dog-faced apes, before men who turn themselves away from the sight. Seventh: A leopard and a tiger fighting each other. Two helmeted warriors with drawn swords take it in turns to drive them apart.
First: A dignified man in a chariot drawn by dragons. In the head of the dragon on the right, there is thrust an arrow. Second: A man seated on an armchair, drawn by four winged youths. Beneath it are leafy branches of the beech. Third: One having the head of a ram, seated on a wheel, carrying a vase of balsam in his hand. Fourth: A man having the head of a lion and the feet of an eagle, with the branch of an oak in his right hand. Two beautiful youths, clothed in white, bow before him. Fifth: One seated on an eagle, robed in emerald vestments, wearing a hyacinth-coloured crown and holding a sceptre. Sixth: A crowned man, wearing saffron garments, carrying an olive-wood staff in his right hand & riding a dragon. Seventh: Someone crowned and raised up on high, with hands clasped together as though praying, wearing a dark blue robe sprinkled with golden stars.
First: A man of elderly appearance seated on a dragon, having on his right hand an owl which is devouring a serpent. Second: A man holding a sickle in his right hand; and a fish in his left. He is riding a camel. Third: A man sad and sighing, holding up his palms to heaven. He is wearing dark clothes. Fourth: A black man, with the feet of a camel, seated on a winged dragon; his right hand bearing a cypress branch. Fifth: Someone clad in black raiment and black of visage, around whose right arm is twisted a basilisk's tail. Sixth: A lame old man, supporting himself on a staff, seated on a throne in a chariot, drawn by a mule and an ass. Seventh: A charioteer in a chariot, drawn by two stags. In one hand is a fish; in the other, he wields a curved sickle.
A king having on his right hand a dragon; on the head of the king are flames and the dragon's head is like the head of a hawk
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