Author: Philip Margulies
Cites
- Francois Villon (1)
- IN: Belle Cora (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Tell me where, or in what land
is Flora, the lovely Roman,
or Archipiades, or Thais,
who was her first cousin;
or Echo, replying whenever called
across river or pool,
and whose beauty was more than human...?
Where is that brilliant lady Heloise,
for whose sake Peter Abelard was castrated
and became a monk at Saint-Denis?
He suffered that misfortune because of his love for her.
And where is that queen who
ordered that Buridan
be thrown into the Seine in a sack?...
where are they, where, O sovereign Virgin?...
FROM: "The Snows of Yesteryear", (1460), Poem, France