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    The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel
    The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel
    The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel
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    The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel

    By Aubrey Beardsley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 25, 2019
    ISBN4057664620132
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      The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser - Aubrey Beardsley

      Aubrey Beardsley

      The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser

      A Romantic Novel

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664620132

      Table of Contents

      THE STORY OF

      VENUS AND TANNHÄUSER

      GIULIO POLDO PEZZOLO

      Now first printed from the Original Manuscript

      LONDON

      FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION

      MCMVII

      FOREWORD

      Only a portion of this work, Beardsley's most ambitious literary effort, has hitherto been printed, with the title Under the Hill. The present work is a complete transcript of the whole of the manuscript as originally projected by Beardsley. It has been deemed advisable, owing to the freedom of several passages, to issue only a limited number of copies for the use of those literary students who are also admirers of Beardsley's wayward genius.

      La chaleur du brandon Venus.

      Le Roman de la Rose, v. 22051.

      THE STORY OF

      VENUS AND TANNHÄUSER

      Table of Contents

      A ROMANTIC NOVEL

      TO

      THE MOST EMINENT AND REVEREND PRINCE

      GIULIO POLDO PEZZOLI

      CARDINAL OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH

      TITULAR BISHOP OF S. MARIA IN TRASTAVERE

      ARCHBISHOP OF OSTIA AND VELLETRI

      NUNCIO TO THE HOLY SEE

      IN

      NICARAGUA AND PATAGONIA

      A FATHER TO THE POOR

      A REFORMER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE

      A PATTERN OF LEARNING

      WISDOM AND HOLINESS OF LIFE

      THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH DUE REVERENCE

      BY HIS HUMBLE SERVITOR

      A SCRIVENER AND LIMNER OF WORLDLY THINGS

      WHO MADE THIS BOOK

      AUBREY BEARDSLEY

      TO

      THE MOST EMINENT AND REVEREND PRINCE

      GIULIO POLDO PEZZOLO

      Table of Contents

      Most Eminent Prince,

      I know not by what mischance the writing of epistles dedicatory has fallen into disuse, whether through the vanity of authors or the humility of patrons. But the practice seems to me so very beautiful and becoming that I have ventured to make an essay in the modest art, and lay with formalities my first book at your feet. I have, it must be confessed, many fears lest I shall be arraigned of presumption in choosing so exalted a name as your own to place at the beginning of these histories; but I hope that such a censure will not be too lightly passed upon me, for, if I am guilty, 'tis but of a most natural pride that the accidents of my life should allow me to sail the little pinnace of my wit under your protection.

      But though I can clear myself of such a charge, I am still minded to use the tongue of apology, for with what face can I offer you a book treating of so vein and fantastical a thing as Love? I know that in the judgment of many the amorous passion is accounted a shameful thing and ridiculous; indeed, it must be confessed that more blushes have risen for Love's sake than for any other cause, and that lovers are an eternal laughing-stock. Still, as the book will be found to contain matter of deeper import than mere venery, inasmuch as it treats of the great contrition of its chiefest character, and of canonical things in its chapters, I am not without hopes that your Eminence will pardon my writing of the Hill of Venus, for which exposition let my youth excuse me.

      Then I must crave your

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