To Josef and others who might be able to help. I am not familiar with these
"dream books" and as an art-historian, I should be. Can someone post any
relevant bibliography? Many thanks, Sharon
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From: Graham Williamson-Mallaghan <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Colour Symbolism at Dante's Banquet
> Josef
>
> A salutory admonition!
> Caveat Lector indeed!
>
> I expect that Dante utlised the 'colour code' most
> applicable to his purpose. Dream books seem like the sort
> of material our Florentine poet-turned-philosopher would
> have rated as sources!
>
> Thanks for the bibliographical information!
>
> Graham.
>
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 02:04:54 -0500 [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > >Graham WM. worte:
> > >What about a formalised 'mystic language of colours'? Would
> > >Dante, connected by some with Alrchemy and Christian (and
> > >not so Christian) mysticism have had access to a textbook
> > >of colour symbolism, with meanings fixed by convention?
> > >
> >
> > Graham:
> > Caveat lector: Just speculating! As to the possible sources
> > of "codification" for colours or colour symbolism,many of the
> > Onomastica Sacra attached to Medieval Bibles fill by a kind of
> > reverse analogical "etymology" certain colours with rather specific
> > associations. These could feed into a commonly accepted convention or
> > related set of conventions.
> > Likewise, the Late Antique and Medieval "dream-books" (
> > Oneirocritica), Greek, Arabic and Latin( particularly popular in
> > Italy), often contain quite specific colour decodings. These too
> > could feed into fixing of meanings.
> >
> > > Josef Gulka
> >
> > Josef Gulka
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> > Tel: 215- 732-8420
> > Fax (215) 732-8420
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