...find another blessing greater still if he will employ this love to mount to one much higher, — if he will no longer contemplate the particular beauty...that universal beauty which adorns all bodies. And just as love leads the soul from the particular to the universal beauty, so in the highest stage it...

...he will little by little add so many ornaments that by heaping all beauties together he will form a universal concept and will reduce the multitude of...contemplate the particular beauty of one woman, but the universal beauty which adorns all bodies."1 When the lover is fully aware that this concept of...

...he will little by little add so many ornaments that by heaping all beauties together he will form a •universal concept and will reduce the multitude...contemplate the particular beauty of one woman, but the universal beauty which adorns all bodies."1 When the lover is fully aware that this concept of...

...appreciation for female beauty is belittled by Pietro Bembo, who urges him and the other characters to "no longer contemplate the particular beauty of one...that universal beauty which adorns all bodies", and from there by means of intellect to attain an apprehension of divine beauty.69 Bembo's own commentary...

...he will little by little add so many ornaments, that by heaping all beauties together he will form a universal concept, and will reduce the multitude of...contemplate the particular beauty of one woman, but the universal beauty which adorns all bodies".2 When the lover becomes fully aware that this concept...