"Don't
think it strange if you hear that wild animals and trees followed
Orpheus from place to place; and that by their singing both Amphion in
Greece and Apollo in Phrygia imbued stones with such lust that they
began mounting one another – as many of you here would do if given the
opportunity. By this means they built the walls of Thebes [Oedipus slept
there] and those of Priam's city [Troy]..."
—Ariosto, preface to 'the Necromancers' [1520]; in 'The Comedies of Ariosto,' Beame and Sbrocchi (transl's.) University of Chicago Press, 1975 p101.
—Ariosto, preface to 'the Necromancers' [1520]; in 'The Comedies of Ariosto,' Beame and Sbrocchi (transl's.) University of Chicago Press, 1975 p101.
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