Note 685 — Chapter III · THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL BEAUTY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Besides the description of Baiæ in the Fiammetta, of the grove in the Ameto, etc., a passage in the De genealogia deorum, xiv. 11, is of importance, where he enumerates a number of rural beauties—trees, meadows, brooks, flocks and herds, cottages, etc.—and adds that these things ‘animum mulcent;’ their effect is ‘mentem in se colligere.’