{"id":1920,"date":"2020-07-17T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/?page_id=1920"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:05:04","slug":"letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\">[vc_row][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;slideInUp&#8221;]<style>.vcex-image.vcex_6adb3f4f39f03 .vcex-image-inner{max-width:100px;}<\/style><figure class=\"vcex-image vcex-module wpex-text-center vcex_6adb3f4f39f03\"><div class=\"vcex-image-inner wpex-relative wpex-inline-block vc_custom_1539896760530\"><img width=\"175\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/icone-lettre.png\" class=\"vcex-image-img wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/icone-lettre.png 175w, https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/icone-lettre-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>[vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'IM Fell English SC';\"><strong>From Thomas du Clevier to his friend Pierre Tryocan, greetings.<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"dropcap boxed\" style=\"font-family: MedievalSharp;\">A<\/span><\/p>\n<p>bout eight years ago, dear friend, I promised I would translate for you the short treatise that I had shown you then: the <em>Cymbalum mundi<\/em>, composed of four poetical dialogues, which I had found in the old library of a monastery near the city of Dabas. My days have been so busy that I have fulfilled this promise only as best as I could have.<\/p>\n<p>You must understand that, if I did not translate it word for word from the Latin, it was on purpose, to follow, as much as possible, the manners of speaking that one finds in our French tongue. You will clearly notice this in the swearwords that are found here: for <em>Me Hercule, Per Jovem, Dispeream, Aedepol, Per Styga, Pro Jupiter<\/em> and other such Latin swearwords, I put those that are used by our good old lads, that is <em>Morbieu<\/em>, <em>Sambieu<\/em>, <em>Je puisse mourir<\/em>&#8230; to better translate and characterize the emotion of the speaker rather than his own words.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, I used \u201c<em>Beaune<\/em> wine\u201d instead of \u201c<em>Falernian <\/em>wine\u201d so that it seemed more familiar and understandable to you. I also wished to relate the god <em>Proteus<\/em> to our own <em>ma\u00eetre Gonin<\/em> to better make you see who Proteus actually is. As regards the songs that Cupido sings in the third dialogue, there were some lyrical verses about love affairs that I chose to replace with songs of our times since they would be as appropriate as the Latin lyrical verses which would not have been as full of grace if I had translated them.<\/p>\n<p>So I send you the text as is, but on the condition that you refrain from giving a copy to anybody so that it does not fall in to the hands of those who are connected to printing, an art that originally brought many advantages to the world of letters but now \u2013 because it has become to common \u2013 makes it so that what is printed has less grace and is less admired than if it had remained a simple manuscript, even if the printing of the text seems clean and correct.<\/p>\n<p>I will send you many other good things if I learn that you have not found this one too bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Farewell dear friend, may God keep you in his grace and give you whatever your little heart desires.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;slideInUp&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539009801990{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"vcex-post-next-prev vcex-module wpex-flex wpex-flex-wrap wpex-gap-10 textcenter wpex-justify-center\"><div class=\"vcex-post-next-prev__item vcex-post-next-prev__prev vcex-col wpex-inline-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/the-cymbal-of-the-world\/\" class=\"vcex-post-next-prev__link theme-button minimal-border black wpex-flex wpex-items-center wpex-text-center wpex-max-w-100\"><span class=\"vcex-post-next-prev__icon vcex-post-next-prev__icon--left wpex-mr-10 wpex-icon wpex-icon--bidi\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 320 512\"><path d=\"M9.4 233.4c-12.5 12.5-12.5 32.8 0 45.3l192 192c12.5 12.5 32.8 12.5 45.3 0s12.5-32.8 0-45.3L77.3 256 246.6 86.6c12.5-12.5 12.5-32.8 0-45.3s-32.8-12.5-45.3 0l-192 192z\"\/><\/svg><\/span>The cymbal of the world<\/a><\/div><div class=\"vcex-post-next-prev__item vcex-post-next-prev__next vcex-col wpex-inline-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/title\/\" class=\"vcex-post-next-prev__link theme-button minimal-border black wpex-flex wpex-items-center wpex-text-center wpex-max-w-100\">Title<span class=\"vcex-post-next-prev__icon vcex-post-next-prev__icon--right wpex-ml-10 wpex-icon wpex-icon--bidi\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 320 512\"><path d=\"M310.6 233.4c12.5 12.5 12.5 32.8 0 45.3l-192 192c-12.5 12.5-32.8 12.5-45.3 0s-12.5-32.8 0-45.3L242.7 256 73.4 86.6c-12.5-12.5-12.5-32.8 0-45.3s32.8-12.5 45.3 0l192 192z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;slideInUp&#8221;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;] From Thomas du Clevier to his friend Pierre Tryocan, greetings. &nbsp; A bout eight years ago, dear friend, I promised I would translate for you the short treatise that I had shown you then: the Cymbalum mundi, composed of four poetical dialogues, which I had found in the old library of a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1920\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cymbalum-mundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}