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That profane love or earthly love was the one that was dressed and looked like she was on earth
世俗之愛，或說塵世之愛的代表就是那位穿著衣服，看起來就像人世間的女人
And that sacred love was the one who was aspiring toward a more ideal love of God
而神圣之愛的代表就是那位向往著更為理想化的神靈之愛的女人
Now I don't think that we have to jump through those funny flip floppy hoops
但我認為我們不必遵循這種有趣的翻轉手法
Because the idea of two Venuses
因為兩個維納斯這種觀點
Twin Venuses that Plato talked about
即柏拉圖提過的孿生維納斯
Lived on throughout the entire middle Ages and Renaissance
存在于整個中世紀和文藝復興時期
And in them writers like Boccaccio describe quite clearly what the Two Venuses looked like
在這兩個時期，一些作家如薄伽丘將孿生維納斯的樣子和特性
And what their attributes were
描述得非常清楚
The nude Venus which was the profane Venus
裸體的維納斯，也就是世俗的維納斯
Was the one which is probably the most easily recognizable to us today
這一點可能對于今天的觀眾來說是最易辨別的
She was the one who was born of the sea
維納斯誕生于海中
And washed ashore on the Island of Cyprus
被海浪沖到塞浦路斯島的海岸上
And the place she washed ashore was called Paphos
她被沖上岸的地方叫做帕福斯
Was very very famous throughout the entire Renaissance
這地方整個文藝復興時期都非常非常有名
As the place that all the prostitutes were always on the beach
因為所有的妓女都聚集在那個海灘上
That all the sailors could go and dock and visit
而所有的水手可以到那里靠岸去光顧她們
He also mentions that she doesn't wear any clothes
薄伽丘也提到過她不穿任何衣服
Because for what she gets up to she doesn't need it
因為她所從事的工作不需要穿衣服
You might notice that in her hand she holds a kind of
你可能也會注意到她手上拿著一個
It isn't really flaming it's sort of smouldering bowl
這并不是真的在燃燒，只是一個在冒煙的缽
Now in antiquity Venus didn't have a bowl like that
古希臘羅馬時代，維納斯并沒有一個這樣的缽
But in the Renaissance she is very often shown
但到了文藝復興時期，維納斯就經常被賦予這樣一個形象
as we can see here in a print which is clearly labelled Venus
就像這張版畫里清楚地標著維納斯的名字
A kind of flaming torch
這是一支燃燒的火炬
And that torch really shows the inner passion of this lewd carnal love
而這個火炬真正顯示出與裸體的維納斯有關的
That is associated with the nude Venus
淫蕩的肉欲之愛的內在激情
Her twin on the other hand
另一邊的孿生姐妹
The heavenly or sacred Venus
這位天國或神圣的維納斯
Was the one who was associated most with springtime
人們總是將她同青春期聯系起來
When a young man's fancy might turn to love
那時候，年輕男子的幻想會逐漸變成真正的愛情
And she appears quite frequently in depictions of the months
她經常出現在描寫月份的畫中
We are looking here at the fresco from the Villa Schifanoia in Ferrara
這一幅壁畫來自菲拉拉的齊法諾亞別墅
In which you can see in the month of April
四月份那幅畫中
There you have Venus being placed on a cart pulled by swans
維納斯坐在一輛由天鵝拉動的車上
Doves flying around her head
鴿子在她頭上飛旋
And one of her lovers Mars are actually chained before her
她的愛人之一，戰神馬爾斯，被鏈子鎖在她面前
Now Boccaccio talks about this Venus and what her attributes are at great length
薄伽丘講到了這位維納斯，將她的特性描述得很詳盡
