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Saturday, July 20, 2024

A Tree of Vices


Anonymous German, A Tree of Vices from the Speculum Virginum (c. 1200) 






























The root of vice: Pride (superbia)
The crowning fruit: Sensual Pleasure (luxuria
The Old Adam 
In The City of Babylon 

VAINGLORY (vana gloria)
Hypocrisy (hypocrisis)
Disobedience (inobedientia)
Boasting (lactantia)
Presumption (praesumptionis)
Arrogance (arrogantia)
Talkativeness (loquacitas)
Obstinacy (pertinacia)

ENVY (invidia)
Hatred (odium)
Envying others’ good fortune (afflictio in prosperis)
Exulting in others’ adversity (exsultatio in adversis)
Malice (malitia)
Detraction (detractio)
Bitterness (amaritudo)
Whispering (susurratio

ANGER (ira)
Accusation (clamor)
Blasphemy (blasphemia)
Insult (contumelia)
Mourning or dwelling on an injury by another (luctus)
Reckless outburst (temeritas)
Fury (furor)
Indignation (indignatio)

SADNESS (tristitia)
Despair (desperatio)
Rancor (rancor)
Mental torpor (torpor)
Fear and anxiety (timor)
Listlessness (acidia)
Complaint (querela)
Pessimism (pusillanimitas)

AVARICE (avaritia)
Love of money (philargyria)
Perjury (perjurium)
Violence (violentia)
Usury (usura)
Fraud (fraus)
Robbery (rapina)
Deceit (fallacia)

GLUTTONY (ventris ingluvies)
Drunkenness (ebrietas)
Overeating (crapula)
Dullness of sense and in understanding (mentis hebetatio)
Laziness (languor)
Delicacy of appetite; desire for delicious foods beyond one natural needs (delicatio)
Disregard of health (oblivio)

LUST (Luxuria)
Voluptuous pleasure (voluptas)
Lewdness (lascivia)
Languid rejection of virtue (ignavia)
Rash, consuming desire (petulantia)
Weakness of spirit or body given over to indulgence (titubatio)
Enticement (blanditiae)
Excessive sensual delight (deliciae

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