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Ancille

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An`cille´
n.1.A maidservant; a handmaid.
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In relating all the natural sciences to theology, which he equates with the Empyrean, Dante refers to a wisdom text, from Song of Songs (6: 8-9), on the number of Solomon's queens and concubines and their numberless handmaids, and the one dove, the perfect one: "Sessanta sono le regine, e ottanta l'amiche concubine; e de le ancille adolescenti non e numero: una e la colomba mia e la perfetta mia.
Dante's Heaven of the Sun and the wisdom of Solomon (1) by Williams, Pamela / Italica
Bruni 1996, 508: "Hanc eius moram nonnulli obtrectatores vehementer carpsere quasi parum philosopho congruentem, laceraturque hoc in loco maxime pro ancille cuiusdam amoribus pene insanis, quorum gratia illum desedisse apud Hermiam quidam scripsere.
Leonardo Bruni and Biography: The Vita Aristotelis by Ianziti, Gary / Renaissance Quarterly
Non illi satis ancille sunt, non pellices, non deinique meretrices et postribule pro nephas.
Marriage, sexual pleasure, and learned brides in the wedding orations ... by D'Elia, Anthony F. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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