| gegeben ist, den Sieg über die Natur | zu erringen und sie nach den | Bedingungen und Regeln des Wettkampfs | zu töten und zu zerstören, sondern sie | im Gegenteil der Natur unterworfen | bleibt, wie das Weib dem Ehemann. | | Charles W. Lemmi (THE CLASSICAL | DEITIES IN BACON. A STUDY IN | MYTHOLOGICAL SYMBOLISM, Baltimore | 1933, repr. New York 1971) says that | Bacon draws on Natalis Comes (Conti) | MYTHOLOGIAE SIVE EXPLICATIONUM | FABULARUM LIBRI X (1551) and on | Boccaccios DE GENEALOGIA DEORUM | (1472). | | Simone Wirthmann comments: | Treatises on classical mythology had a | wide circulation during the | Renaissance because it has been | thought that one might discover in the | stories of the gods and goddesses the | wisdom of the ancients. | It was in Italy, in the sixteenth | century that the Renaissance produced | the most widely known works on the | classic deities. | | One of the most popular books was | Natalis Conti's "MYTHOLOGY", which was | fully as learned as any of its | competitors, pleasanter to read and | incomparably easier to use as a | referencebook. Furthermore, it | systematically interprets every myth | it relates according to a multitude of | authorities. It provides a list of | authorities, an excellent index and