Adone

Exaggeration and extravagance, with corrupted taste and frantic straining after novelty (in part a reaction against the frigid classicism in which the Renaissance ended), are the characteristics of earlier seventeenth-century poetry, of which the most typical work is the "Adone" of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

"The poet who set the fashion of fantastic ingenuity" was Marinus, whose epic "Adone," in twenty cantos, dilates on the tale of Venus and

The Book of the Epic 1894

Adone (Have done, Leave off): I am told on good authority that when a

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Sussex damsel says, "Oh! do adone," she means you to go on; but when she says, "Adone-do," you must leave off immediately.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Such is the difference betwixt Virgil’s Æneis and Marini’s Adone.

Dedication Vergil 1909

A little page of prose is added to the _Gerusalemme_, expressing another thought of the poet; a verse or a strophe is added to the _Adone_, expressing what the poet would like to make a part of his public swallow; while to the statue nothing more than the single word is added: _Clemency_ or

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

Given the _Gerusalemme liberata_, the allegory was imagined afterwards; given the _Adone_ of Marino, the poet of the lascivious insinuated afterwards that it was written to show how

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

Renaissance it was still chiefly in male adolescents, as we see, for instance, in Marino's _Adone_, that the homosexual ideal found expression.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

Narcisso, Adone, Deifobo and the like, wicked, graceless little wretches as they were.

The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

It is characteristic of the mood expressed in the _Adone_ that voluptuousness should not be passionate, but sentimental.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866