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...Genoese, Danes and Swedes met to trade, and from all over the Low Countries great painters came-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Gerard David, and the three artists known today only as the masters of Flémalle, of the St. Ursula legend, and of the Tiburtine Sibyl...
...SIBYL O. SAUNDERS...
...SIBYL (154 pp.)-Pär Lagerkvist -Random House...
Signs & Wonders. Those adept at deciphering the message in a parable will be happy to wrest their own truth from The Sibyl. The supporting cast of human symbols is not hard to identify: there are the Pythia's pious, humble parents; the lowly, kindly oracle servant ("little friend of god and man"); the mean old spy who cares nothing for god but only for his temple. These are, for good or ill, like unto other men. But the Pythia and the Wanderer are set apart because they have been touched by God; he works on them not merely "signs...
Wilder regarded Miss Sitwell as a "Sibyl of archaic tradition," and felt that she speaks like Atropos, one of the three Fates. He compared her treatment of the catastrophies of man to that of Jeffers, and felt that she was "a modern revelation of St. John...