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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11048	The courtiers academie comprehending seuen seuerall dayes discourses: wherein be discussed, seuen noble and important arguments, worthy by all gentlemen to be perused. 1 Of beautie. 2 Of humane loue. 3 Of honour. 4 Of combate and single fight. 5 Of nobilitie. 6 Of riches. 7 Of precedence of letters or armes originally written in Italian by Count Haniball Romei, a gentleman of Ferrara, and translated into English by I.K.; Discorsi. English	Romei, Annibale, conte, 16th cent.; Keper, John, b. 1546 or 7, attributed name.; I. K.	1598 (1598)	STC 21311; ESTC S116155	207,844	304

with maruel and wonder from them springeth the beutie of this inferior world Such proportion we finde in the elements as well in quantitie as qualitie as if of this their proportion the least part were but disproportioned one element would conuert al the other into his proper Nature or els the world would be confounded into Chaos Proportion causeth harmonie in number in bodies beautie in humours health in minde vertue as contrariwise disproportion procureth in numbers discord in bodies deformitie in humors infirmity and in the minde vice But who is it that wil doubt proportion to be the cause of all delights as well sensible as inte ligible in that the good which delighteth is no good if it bring not with it proportion neither is there any thing that desireth to be vnited with good simply but with a good to it selfe proportioned and from hence proceedeth the saying of Heraclytus that euery thing is rauished with his own contentment the which standes in vnion of good to it selfe proportioned and this is that which properly of all things is beloued and desired To conclude as there can not bee good in the vniuersall world without proportion so can ther not in the litle world which is man be any beauty without proportion and as good can not without proportion procure desire so can not beautie without proportion cause loue In that loue is not generate in the louer but by symetrie which the thing beloued hath with the louer by al these and other reasons which might be produced we may conclude that all perfection springeth principally from proportion and therefore that it in humane body is a part more excelent than is the beutie of colours Me thinkes saide the Duchesse the doubt is after such a manner cleered as wee neede not proceede any further and that the palme is due rather to beautifull feature than to faire and well disposed colours It is a thing iust and requisite renowmed Lady sayd Patritio before iudgement to attend the partie for his allegations are not to be contemned and therfore that louer who is made a seruant to beautiful tresses to black eyes to coloured cheekes to rosie lips to a white hand wil alleage in defence of colors that the beautie which is part or rather proper offpring of the most perfect of all beauties sensible ought to bee the selfe same which bringeth principally the name of beautifull to that subiect wherin it is found but colours are such therfore by colours humane body shall principally bee called beautifull that colours be such it is a thing manifest for light is the greatest of all beauties sensible as that which is no other but a beame influence of diuine essence dispersed ouer the wole world as I haue said this being graunted to the most perfect of all bodies sensible which is the sun to the end that by it it might not only be beautifullest of all other creatures but that it should also bee the meane and principal cause of the apparance of all other beauties colours are so conioyned with light and light with colours after such a sort vnited as we terme light a bright color in a body illumined color a shadowed light in a colored body in no poynt differing but that light is a colour without adumbration color a light shadowed whereupon those colors which haue least adumbration as is white haue the greater similitude with the purity of light Light then beeing the greatest beauty of the world and colors part of light and of light created in al reason they ought to obtaine the chiefest place in humane beauty This louer wil further argue if the proper obiect delectable to the sight is no other but beauty colours being more delightsome then proportion or figure should also haue in them greater beautie That colours be such it is proued for colours are proper sensibles of the sight but figure and proportion sensibles common by the opinion as wel of the Perepatetikes as Academikes proper sensibles doo more moue delight sence then common Neither want there philosophers of authority as was most learned Psellus which hold opinion that common sensibles are rather knowne by reason stiried vp by the senses then by the sense thēselues To conclude he will thus reason grounding himself vpon that proposition which runneth currant through all vniuersities and is this that which is the cause that another thing is such is much more the like it self as for example sake If fire be the cause that all other things are hot then shall it of all other things be the hottest I will therefore affirme that if beautie of colours is a cause that the beautie of figure and proportion is apparant then must they likewise needes bee of more apparant beautie as light is of all other beauties the fairest in that light is the cause of the apparance of all beauties sensible and there is no doubt but colours are the cause of the apparance of proportion considering that cōmon sensibles cannot be cōprehended but by sensibles proper by the testimony of women thēselues of whom beauty is the proper ornament the said reasons may be confirmed they being priuie that colours in beauty humane holdeth the cheefest place and are of themselues apt to produce Loue they imploy all their industrie in the beautie of colours by making their haire like the shining colour of gold the cheekes like to white lillies and red roses the lips to rubies the teeth to the orient whitenes of pearle with which beuties shadowing some other of their disproportiōs they yet appeare are called faire kindling notwitstāding by such hart in the harts of mē amarous flames I le further adde the authority of the doctors of the Moysaical law who desirous that mē leauing their bestial appetites shuld be inamored of women set down by publike decree that it shuld be lawful for women to paint their faces and that fathers to daughters brothers to sisters husbands to wiues shuld be enioyned to allow money for the buying of colours these wisemen conceiuing that there is not a beuty more preuailent to imprint loue in humane breasts then that of colors thus wil this intangled louer with the beutie of colors cōclude that colors are the most principal poynts of humane beauty Heere Patritio held his peace and on a sodaine great murmuring did arise one defending one parte and others another which the Queene obseruing she pointed to the Lady Laura Peuerara This is a Gentleman belonging to the Duchesse borne in Mantua to the glorie of that City married to Count Hanibal Turcho one of the principallest Gentlemen of our Citie who as she doth easily with her beautie kindle loue in any one that beholdeth her so with her honest customes and modestie she doth so asswage others flames that al amarous affection is resolued into singular and special reuerence whereupon by all those that know her she is no lesse reuerenced then