| 词条 | Bentivolio and Urania |
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BackgroundThe prose romance form was briefly in vogue in England during the period 1650 to 1665, and the work (two volumes, 1660 and 1664) went through four editions by 1682. It sold well.[3][4][5] Its allegory in the style of Edmund Spenser was influenced by a work of Henry More, like Ingelo one of the Cambridge Platonists, the Psychodia Platonica from 1642.[6] The title characters are explained by Ingelo in the book's introduction. In the allegory, Bentivolio represents God's will, Urania his sister heavenly light.[7] As it occurs in the Faerie Queene of Spenser, "heavenly light" is associated with knights in full armour, and with the purity of the soul, picking up on Christian mysticism's view of the soul illuminating the body.[8] ContentThe book was conceived as instructive, on the theme of the ascent of the soul.[5][7] It defends Puritan concepts of theocracy and divine providence, in the tradition of the Solyma Nova (1649) of Samuel Gott. It also gives an account of the Levellers' defeat.[9] The character Antitheus is portrayed negatively as a Hobbesian in the Interregnum sense.[10] Notes1. ^{{cite book|author=Steven N. Zwicker|title=The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cyk29_2u-GkC&pg=PA79|date=18 June 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-56488-5|page=79 note 10}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Argenis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ySgLF4nkmAC&pg=PA37|publisher=Uitgeverij Van Gorcum|isbn=978-0-86698-316-7|page=37}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Laura Lunger Knoppers|title=The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTRQSJTIrsMC&pg=PA551|date=29 November 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-956060-8|page=551}} 4. ^{{cite book|author1=Donald F. Bond|author2=G. Sherburn|title=The Literary History of England: Vol 3: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2S_bCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA794|date=2 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-84781-5|page=794}} 5. ^1 {{cite ODNB|id=14385|first=Ian William|last=McLellan|title=Ingelo, Nathaniel}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=S. Hutton|title=Henry More (1614–1687) Tercentenary Studies: with a biography and bibliography by Robert Crocker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ncy3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA236|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-009-2267-9|page=236}} 7. ^1 {{cite book|author=Douglas Hedley|title=The Iconic Imagination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aRh8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA101|date=25 February 2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4411-5191-9|page=101}} 8. ^{{cite book|author=A.C. Hamilton|title=The Spenser Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8T0hy0wg0KEC&pg=PT1790|date=2 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-93481-2|page=1790}} 9. ^{{cite book|author=Nigel Smith|title=Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660|pages=248–9|year=1997|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07153-5}} 10. ^{{cite book|author=Jon Parkin|title=Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640–1700|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6wweBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT321|date=9 August 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-32118-2|page=321}} External links
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