Book Title: Ordonnances et edicts royaux de France depuis le Roy S. Loys IX. en l'an 1226, iusques au Roy Charles neusieme à present regnant 1565. : Le tout assemblé en tieres, & rubriques à la façon des pandectes du droit Romain, auec annotations necessaires pour l'intelligence des lieux les plus difficiles / par Pierre Rebuffi, docteur en droict, & aduocat en Parlement ; on y a depuis adiosté plusieurs arrests donnez es Cours souueraines, fondez sur la teneur des ordannances : auec deux tables, l'une des rubriques, l'autre des principales matieres qui y sont contenues

Author: Rebuffi, Pierre, 1487-1557, ed

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Description: Illustrating a story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Met. 3.316-338), in which Jupiter and Juno argue whether men or women enjoy more pleasure from sex. They submit the question to Teiresias, because he had been both man and woman, and he responds that women derive the greater pleasure. Resentful at losing, Juno blinds Teiresias, but Jupiter responds by giving Teiresias the gift of prophecy. Here, Juno appears with her attribute, the peacock (right). Jupiter holds his thunderbolt and is with his symbol—himself in the form of an eagle carrying Ganymede. Teiresias is between them in androgynous form as he changes gender. He strikes the snakes with his staff, and Juno blinds him.

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