De miseria humanae conditionis (De contemptu mundi)
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~33,700 words · 160 passages
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- APAInnocent III. (n.d.). De miseria humanae conditionis (De contemptu mundi). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/innocent-iii/de-miseria-humanae-conditionis-de-contemptu-mundi
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- ChicagoInnocent III. De miseria humanae conditionis (De contemptu mundi). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/innocent-iii/de-miseria-humanae-conditionis-de-contemptu-mundi.
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What it is about
On the Misery of the Human Condition, in LATIN.
Context and history
Lotario dei Segni wrote it before becoming Pope Innocent III, and it is among the most read books of the Middle Ages: hundreds of manuscripts. It inventories everything wretched about being born, living and dying. He promised a second part on human dignity and never wrote it; the fifteenth-century humanists wrote it against him.
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Est enim duplex conceptio, una semiminum et altera naturarum. Prima fit in commissis, secunda fit in contractis. Parcntes enim committunt in prima, proles con-5 trahunt in secunda. Quis enim nesciat concubitum etiam coniugalem nunquam omnino committi sine pruritu carnis, sine fervore liixuriae, sine foetore libidinis? Unde semina concepta foedantur, maculantur et vitiantur, 10 ex quibus anima tandem infusa contrahit labem peccati, maculam culpae, sordem iniqtiitatis, sicut ex vase corrupto liquor infusus cornimpitur, et pollutum contingens ex ipso contactu polluitur. flabet enim anima tres i5naturales potentias, sive tres naturales vires: rationalem, ut diseernat inter bonum et ma- Inm; irajsicibilem ^ ut respuat malum; concupiscibilem, ut appetat bonum. Istae tres vires tribus oppositis vitiis originaliter corrum-2opuntur; vis rationalis per ignorantiam, ut non discernat inter bonum et malum; vis irascibilis per iracundiam, ut respuat bonum; 1. «iiim] 0mUm J. 3. pJt om. Xtf. 5. eoti- IrttAsl MCU. 7. me ferv^re libidinUy sine foetore humriae H. Google DB COIIY. Mirtflirl. LIB. I. 19 vid oontxi^seihilis per concupisoentiBin , ttt appetat maknn. Prima gigfnit deliclum, ultima parit peccatam, media delictiim general? et peccatum. Est enim delictum non facere faciendum; peccatum agere non agendum. 5 Haec tria vitia contrahuntur ex carne cor- . rupta per tres naturales iUecebras. In carnali quippe commercio raiionis sopitur iAtiutus, ut ignorantia seminetur, libidinis irritatur pruritus , ut iracundia propagetur , lo voluptatis satiatur aflfectus, ut coneupiscentia contrahatur. Hic est tyrannus carnis, lex membrorum, fomes peccati, languor natvt* rae, pabulum mortis, sine quo nemo na* scitur, sine quo nulkus moritnr^ qui, siis quando transit reatu^ semper tamen remaaat actu.…
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