Lorent's hauntingly beautiful
Luxuria, won Scottish Dance Theatre a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005.
A member of the Refounded Communist Party,
Luxuria, nee Wladimiro Guadagno, is a former gay pride parade organizer from Rome who famously tussled with Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the late dictator, on TV during the campaign.
I saw two, Forty Minutes and
Luxuria, and happily whooped with the rest of the audience when the dancers took their bows.
The company's
Luxuria Collection, which includes both comforters and pillows, "brings together the best of our fabric and down expertise to create a sumptuously soft sleep experience," the company said.
At this juncture it is worth remembering the frequency with which Roman moralists of the late Republic expressed anxiety about blurring gender boundaries and the emasculation of the Roman citizen male, which they regularly blamed on the invasion of
luxuria from less virile parts of the empire.
(2) "Ligeramente podremos la loxuria refrenar / con castidat et conciencia podremos nos escusar, / spiritu de fortaleza que nos quiera ayudar: / con estas brafuneras la podremos bien matar;//quixotes e canilleras de santo sacramento, / que Dios fizo en paraiso, matrimonio e casamiento; / casar los pobres menguados, dar a bever al sediento: / ansi contra
luxuria avremos vencimiento" (Libro de Buen Amor, 2: 261-62, estrofas 1592-1593).
"Luxury" comes from the Latin noun "
luxuria," which translates, according to W.
360-435), another monk, soon Latinized these thoughts as eight vitia, or faults; in ascending order of seriousness they were: gula (gluttony),
luxuria (lust), avaritia (avarice), tristitia (sadness), ira (anger), acedia (spiritual lethargy), vana gloria (vanity), and superbia (pride).
The Etruscans were famous in their day for their luxurious way of life, and Greek pots used to be taken at face value as direct evidence of the Etruscan's
luxuria. The prices of pots militate against this interpretation of the evidence, however, and in life the Etruscans enjoyed gold and silver vessels at their banquets.
For Colaccio, the "persona of Milton's sonnet" resembles "Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio," as "guilty of a kind of
Luxuria, or excessive love of a person, which can cloud a deeper perception of that person's newly achieved spiritual status." (23) But the point of Dante's experience in the Purgatorio is that he be rendered--as he is by the last line of the cantica--"puro e disposto a salire alle stelle"--"pure and ready to mount to the stars" (Purgatorio 33.145).
Nina Elisabetta Cavallotti Cristiana Stefania Orsola Garello Flavio Flavio Insinna Dario Gianluea Gobbi With: Claudio Spadaro, Angelica Ippolito, Luigi Diberti, Yorgo Voyatzis, Antonello Grimaldi, Luca Damiano, Luis Molteni, Vladimir
Luxuria.
Such discussions begin with the descriptions of taedium vitae,
luxuria and the horror loci supplied by Roman philosophers and writers such as Lucretius, Petronius and Seneca.
Luxuria leads us to the remaining Sins - never far away in this volume.
