For the record, even I was boggled by this quote.
From Cahill's Mysteries of the Middle Ages*, p. 21 of the hardback:
The human body, an iffy thing, easily undone, was yet the acme of the beauty of the cosmos. No wonder that a male on the cusp of full manhood was the loveliest thing in the universe, repeatedly portrayed in statuary and fresco, "the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals," ( Read more... )
The human body, an iffy thing, easily undone, was yet the acme of the beauty of the cosmos. No wonder that a male on the cusp of full manhood was the loveliest thing in the universe, repeatedly portrayed in statuary and fresco, "the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals," ( Read more... )
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::sputters with uncontrollable laughter::
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