3.31 ideophones, angels (46)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Mon, 15 May 89 18:09:50 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 31. Monday, 15 May 1989.


(1) Date: Sun, 14 May 89 18:10:01 EDT (12 lines)
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.28 various queries (173)

(2) Date: Sat, 13 May 89 20:25 EST (15 lines)
From: THEALLDF@TrentU.CA
Subject: angels

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Date: Sun, 14 May 89 18:10:01 EDT
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.28 various queries (173)

In re ideophones, see the following work by
David Pharies (Dept. of Spanish, U. of Florida):

Pharies, David A.
Structure and analogy in the playful lexicon of Spanish
Tubingen : M. Niemeyer, 1986.
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie Bd. 210.

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Date: Sat, 13 May 89 20:25 EST
From: THEALLDF@TrentU.CA
Subject: angels

The book which Charles Faulhaber has in mind is the Epistolae
Obscurorum Virorum. It is my recollection, though it could be wrong, that
in this satire against the Scholastics composed by German humanists,
angels dance on pinheads. Pope refers to the Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum in
the prose sections of the Dunciad Variorum. It is mentioned in a prose
satiric advertisement to the 1742 edition where he thinks of his critics as
"obscure men". He associated it with satires of knowledge such as
Erasmus' Encomium Moriae. It obviously inspired some of the satire in
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus where as a previous comment suggests there
is a satiric use of angels dancing on the head of a pin.