Minturno, 1559
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Apuleius, Opera, 1588
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Philander, The Golden Calf, 1749
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Voltaire, La Pucelle d'Orleans, 1762
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William Adlington, Cupid and Psyche, 1903
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Harold Edgeworth Butler, Cupid and Psyche, 1922
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Boccaccio, 1511
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Minturno, 1559
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Thomas Shadwell, Psyche, 1675
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Thomas Shadwell, Psyche, 1675 (2)
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Jean de la Fontaine, Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, 1814
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Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, or love's mystery, 1702
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Thomas D'Urfey, A new song in honour of the glorious assembly at Court on the Queens birthday
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Mary Tighe, Psyche or The legend of love, 1812
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Christoph Wieland, Fragments of Psyche, 1767
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William Morris, The earthly paradise, 1868-70
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A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press, 1898
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William Morris collected by Alf Mattison
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Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche, 1885
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Victor de Laprade, Psyché, 1857
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Edward Carpenter, The story of Eros and Psyche, 1900
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Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, 1885
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Georges Jean-Aubry and Manuel de Falla, Psyché : poème, 1927
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Pierre Louÿs, Psyché, 1927
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Humanists took to Apuleius’ philosophical reputation as a Platonic philosopher, but also saw the erotic potential of the love story of Cupid and Psyche.
Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (1500-1574) was an Italian humanist, bishop of Ugento and poet, influenced by Torquato Tasso and Petrarch. His dialogue on poetry (De Poeta, 1559) engages with Aristotle’s Poetics and discusses ideas of catharsis (purification from negative emotions) and poetry as imitation (mimesis). His poems cover religious and lay topics. L’amore innamorato (“Love in love”, 1559), composed partly in prose, partly in verse, is obviously inspired by Cupid and Psyche and echoes its plot. The text is divided into five parts, and describes how Cupid falls in love with a beautiful nymph, their separation, the wrath of Venus against the nymph, and Jupiter’s intervention which leads to the happy ending.
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