'Lo cop mortal': the evil eye and the origins of courtly love.

The Romanic Review | May 1, 1996| | Copyright

"There be none of the Affections, which have beene noted to

fascinate, or bewitch but Love, and Envy. They both have vehement

wishes; They frame themselves readily into the Eye; especially upon

the presence of the Objects; which are the Points, that conduce to

Fascination, if any such Thing there be." Francis Bacon, Essay IX: "Of

Envy"(1)

Courtly love seems the epitome of formalized culture, the origin, in many ways, of our own mannered romanticism. The evil eye, that unseen force that causes harm to babies and ...

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