Queen of Coins Sola-Busca
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[edit] Description
A queen is mirroring herself in a metal disc. She seems to be fixing her hair.
[edit] Textual references
[edit] Fazio degli Uberti Dittamondo
Lo suo signore, nel tempo che Elena
fu per Paris rubata, si ragiona
che con i Greci a Troia gente mena. 45
Its lord (the king of Lansedonia), in time in which Helena
was abducted by Paris, is said to have brought
people to Troy together with the Greek.
[edit] Dante Alighieri - The Divine Commedy
Inferno (Hell) - Canto 5
There mark'd I Helen, for whose sake so long
The time was fraught with evil;
[edit] Giovanni Boccaccio - De Claris Mulieribus (Of Illustrious Women)
About Helena, wife of king Menelaus. Chapter XXXV.
Helena was a woman of great fame in the whole world, so much for her lust (according to the opinion of some) as for the long war of which she was the cause.
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she was the most beautiful of the creatures (as is said by all ancient authors, Greek and Latin) that was seen by a living being. The poet Homerus (not to speak of the others) worked longly before he could wholly describe her beauty in his verses, following the rules of the art.
[edit] Image references
Minerva Britanna: Philautia. An Emblem representing Philautia i.e. "self love".
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