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Alanus de Insulis
Anticlaudianus

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In medio nemoris euadit in aera montis
Ardua planicies et nubibus oscula donat.
Hic domus erigitur Nature, si tamen isto
Nomine censeri fas sit, cum numine possit
Sydereas superare domos superumque penates,
Nec sibi dignetur conferre palacia regum.
A nostris laribus excepta beatior aula
Aera metitur, altis suspensa columpnis,
Sydere gemmarum prefulgurat, ardet in auro
Nec minus argenti proprio donatur honore.
Non ibi materies, que sit demissior istis,
Jura tenet propriaque potest plebescere forma.
Hic hominum mores picture gracia scribit:
Sic operi proprio pictura fideliter heret,
Vt res picta minus a uero deuiet esse.
O noua picture miracula! Transit ad esse
Quod nichil esse potest picturaque simia ueri,
Arte noua ludens, in res umbracula rerum
Vertit et in uerum mendacia singula mutat.




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