XIV.

Digladiatio amoris.

Psal. 17.
Qvi docet manus meas ad
prælium.[Bible

, Psalms 18:35]

Titelm. in Psal. f. 296.
Sit benedictus, sit laudatus &
glorificatus Dominus Deus
meus, qui me docet pugnare
& præliari aduersum hostes
meos, qui mihi manus robo-
rat & digitos aptat, ad resisten-
dum iis qui me quærunt inter-
ficere.

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Ps. 17.
Qui docet manus meas
ad prælium.[Bible

, Psalms 18:35]

Plustost que d’estre prisonniere
D’Amante ie seray guerriere.

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Escrime d’amovr.

Ieunes geurriers, certes ie m’imagine,
(Puis qu’escrimant, vous faictes vne
mine,
Qui sent plustost la paix que le duel)
Que tous vos coups se changeront en
charmes,
Et que l’Amour se meslant de vos armes,
Vostre combat ne sera pas cruel.

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Remake of image, not mirrored, background landscape added, in: Digladiatio Amoris [52] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (different facial expressions, background landscape added), the same Latin bible quote and French epigram in:De aanhouder wind [15] (in: Jan van Hoogstraten, Zegepraal der goddelyke liefde (1709)) [Compare]

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Digladiatio Amoris [52] (in: Ludovicus van Leuven, Amoris divini et humani antipathia (1629))
De aanhouder wind [15] (in: Jan van Hoogstraten, Zegepraal der goddelyke liefde (1709))

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Sacred love instructing the soul how to fight

God's perfections [11A23]
radiance emanating from persons or things [22C31]
adult woman [31D15]
couple of lovers (+ variant) [33C23(+0)]
Love: 'Frau Minne' and other allegories [33C9]
fencing foil (+ the two sides (sports, games, etc.)) [43C3941(+21)]
fencing (sport) (+ requirements, necessaries ~ sports and games) [43C394(+4)(PLASTRON)]
hacking and thrusting weapons: dagger [45C13(DAGGER)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ clothed) [56F2(+123)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
Peaceableness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A45(+4)]
Competition, Rivalry, Emulation; 'Emulatione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE33(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(DIGLADATIO AMORIS)]

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