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Britomart also takes the part originally given to Tasso's Clorinda, who is introduced into the second book of the Gerusalemne Liberata acting in behalf of two lovers tied to the stake back to back, face hidden from face -- they face not each other, but Christian martyrdom (33). ... He and Sophronia suffer the frustration of Aristophanes' androgyne in Plato's Symposium. Intervening to re-unite the lovers, "breast joined to breast" (in the words of Olindo's death-wish, which is to expire upon Sophronia's mouth [35]), the lady-knight procures their release after extinguishing their flames.

A less iconographic example comes from the first 'Moorish novel' in Spain, El Abencerraje (ca. 1560), where we find the lover expressing his desire that, going beyond a brother-sister love, he might be a Hermaphroditus to the maiden's Salamicis. He would transcend what also seems to be the impediment in Ovid's original text on this myth, the separateness of physical persons -- which Ovid's nymph prays she be subject to no longer (Metam. IV, 371-79). According to a graphic passage near the end of the fourth book of Lucretius, not even coitus surmounts such an obstacle (De Rerum Nat. IV, 1105-1111). Ovid's androgyne makes of itself a lifelong exception, and the hermaphrodite formed by 'scudamoret' is at least a temporary one.

Busirane's pillar deserves iconographic study itself, as a kind of martyr's stake or lover's cross. Petrarch reports both the action of Love as the oppressor and the suffering of Love as the victim in Rime Sparse 284, "sĪ breve": "Amor, who has tied me and keeps me on this cross, / trembles when he sees her at the door / of the soul, where still she slays me, so acute, / so sweet in sight" (ll. 5-9). Moreover, the pillar functions like the tree-trunk or post to which the love-god is himself lashed or shackled in the statuary form known as Bound Cupid; the Loeb Greek Anthology depicts several examples for its epigrams on the topic. After Ausonius' expansion of it, Cupid Crucified, Amor's mortification reappears in Petrarch's Triumph of Chastity and Poliziano's Stanzas for the Joust.