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Omne malum ab Aquilone : Images of the Evil North in Early Modern Italy and their Impact on Cross-Religious Encounters

2018; Brepols; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/m.cursor-eb.5.114066

2565-943X

Helena Wangefelt Ström, Federico Barbierato,

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Twill out, 'twill out.I peace?No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven, and men, and devils, let them all, All, all cry shame against me, yet I'll speak. 8 The idea of North as strong and free is reflected in other writings as well.Cesare Ripa in his Iconologia (1603) describes the North as Septentrione. 9Ripa's North is an older man, proud looking, tall, and muscular.He is a virile man, robust and 'full of meat' .Ripa says that the North is generally depicted as having fair complexion, blonde hair, cerulean blue eyes, and wearing white armour, with one hand always ready to draw his sword.All of these physical assets are explained by the cold northern climate supposedly giving people a better stomach and improving their digestion.Septentrione is also war loving and insensitive to pain and death -the latter statement referring to Petrarch: Nemica naturalmente di pace, Nasce una gente à cui il morir non dole. 10(Natural enemy to peace, A people is born to which death does not hurt).