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  • This term is found in the Prohemium of Piero della Francesca's treatise on the five "platonic" solids, De quinque corporibus regularibus, dedicated to Prince Guidobaldo: "qui non minori artis studio/ingenio/solertia/& industria fuerunt."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • In the same years that Francesco di Giorgio was employed at Urbino, Piero della Francesca composed the Tractatus de quinque corporibus regularibus, a treatise dedicated to Prince Guidobaldo that instructs its reader on the geometric construction of the regular (so-called Platonic) solids.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • (De corpore Christi mortuo), on the nature of glorified bodies (De dotibus corporum gloriosorum), on spiritual substances and the resurrection (De substantiis spiritualibus et corporibus futurae resurrectionis).

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • Verbis et unctionibus se consecrant daemoni pessimae mulieres qui iis ad opus suum utitur, et earum phantasiam regit, ducitque ad loca ab ipsis desiderata, corpora vero earum sine sensu permanent, quae umbra cooperit diabolus, ut nulli sine conspicua, et post, umbra sublata, propriis corporibus eas restitut, l.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Caep. de mania lib. de morbis cerebri; Daemones, quum sint tenues et incomprehensibiles spiritus, se insinuare corporibus humanis possunt, et occulte in viscerribus operti, valetudinem vitiare, somniis animas terrere et mentes furoribus quatere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Usque adeo insanus, ut nec inferos, nec superos esse dicat, animasque cum corporibus interire credat, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • European, a full cure and absolute of all diseases; a capite ad calcem, nostrae regionis herbae nostris corporibus magis conducunt, our own simples agree best with us.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Of so many myriads of poets, rhetoricians, philosophers, sophisters, as [1940] Eusebius well observes, which have written in former ages, scarce one of a thousand's works remains, nomina et libri simul cum corporibus interierunt, their books and bodies are perished together.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Irrepentes corporibus occulto morbos fingunt, mentes terrent, membra distorquent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Mulieribus omnibus hoc imprimis in votis est, ut formosae sint, aut si reipsa non sint, videantur tamen esse; et si qua parte natura defuit, artis supetias adjungunt: unde illae faciei unctiones, dolor et cruciatus in arctandis corporibus, &c. 5008.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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