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That profane love or earthly love was the one that was dressed and looked like she was on earth
世俗之爱，或说尘世之爱的代表就是那位穿着衣服，看起来就像人世间的女人
And that sacred love was the one who was aspiring toward a more ideal love of God
而神圣之爱的代表就是那位向往着更为理想化的神灵之爱的女人
Now I don't think that we have to jump through those funny flip floppy hoops
但我认为我们不必遵循这种有趣的翻转手法
Because the idea of two Venuses
因为两个维纳斯这种观点
Twin Venuses that Plato talked about
即柏拉图提过的孪生维纳斯
Lived on throughout the entire middle Ages and Renaissance
存在于整个中世纪和文艺复兴时期
And in them writers like Boccaccio describe quite clearly what the Two Venuses looked like
在这两个时期，一些作家如薄伽丘将孪生维纳斯的样子和特性
And what their attributes were
描述得非常清楚
The nude Venus which was the profane Venus
裸体的维纳斯，也就是世俗的维纳斯
Was the one which is probably the most easily recognizable to us today
这一点可能对于今天的观众来说是最易辨别的
She was the one who was born of the sea
维纳斯诞生于海中
And washed ashore on the Island of Cyprus
被海浪冲到塞浦路斯岛的海岸上
And the place she washed ashore was called Paphos
她被冲上岸的地方叫做帕福斯
Was very very famous throughout the entire Renaissance
这地方整个文艺复兴时期都非常非常有名
As the place that all the prostitutes were always on the beach
因为所有的妓女都聚集在那个海滩上
That all the sailors could go and dock and visit
而所有的水手可以到那里靠岸去光顾她们
He also mentions that she doesn't wear any clothes
薄伽丘也提到过她不穿任何衣服
Because for what she gets up to she doesn't need it
因为她所从事的工作不需要穿衣服
You might notice that in her hand she holds a kind of
你可能也会注意到她手上拿着一个
It isn't really flaming it's sort of smouldering bowl
这并不是真的在燃烧，只是一个在冒烟的钵
Now in antiquity Venus didn't have a bowl like that
古希腊罗马时代，维纳斯并没有一个这样的钵
But in the Renaissance she is very often shown
但到了文艺复兴时期，维纳斯就经常被赋予这样一个形象
as we can see here in a print which is clearly labelled Venus
就像这张版画里清楚地标着维纳斯的名字
A kind of flaming torch
这是一支燃烧的火炬
And that torch really shows the inner passion of this lewd carnal love
而这个火炬真正显示出与裸体的维纳斯有关的
That is associated with the nude Venus
淫荡的肉欲之爱的内在激情
Her twin on the other hand
另一边的孪生姐妹
The heavenly or sacred Venus
这位天国或神圣的维纳斯
Was the one who was associated most with springtime
人们总是将她同青春期联系起来
When a young man's fancy might turn to love
那时候，年轻男子的幻想会逐渐变成真正的爱情
And she appears quite frequently in depictions of the months
她经常出现在描写月份的画中
We are looking here at the fresco from the Villa Schifanoia in Ferrara
这一幅壁画来自菲拉拉的齐法诺亚别墅
In which you can see in the month of April
四月份那幅画中
There you have Venus being placed on a cart pulled by swans
维纳斯坐在一辆由天鹅拉动的车上
Doves flying around her head
鸽子在她头上飞旋
And one of her lovers Mars are actually chained before her
她的爱人之一，战神马尔斯，被链子锁在她面前
Now Boccaccio talks about this Venus and what her attributes are at great length
薄伽丘讲到了这位维纳斯，将她的特性描述得很详尽
