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The only work that can be attributed to him with certainty has for its title the name of its hero "Archithrenius" (The Prince of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Archithrenius meets Nature on a flowery plain, surrounded by a brilliant throng of attendants.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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a complete course of cosmography and astronomy in five hundred lines, and ends by listening to the request of Archithrenius.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
chained_bear commented on the word Archithrenius
"... in John of Hauteville's satirical twelfth-century poem Archithrenius, or The Arch-weeper, it is both the Eastern origins and the erotic quality of spices that single them out for condemnation. As the teary hero goes on his cheerless way to the abode of Gluttony, he meets with the belly worshippers or ventricolae, who egg on their lasciviousness with a diet of hot seasonings, their greed driving them beyond the Meridian to seek the spices of the Orient, ever searching for more novel delicacies from around the world and condiments that nourish the libido. (What would the arch-weeper have made of a curry house?)"
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 196
December 3, 2016