By replacing Aristotle and Phylis and Samson and Delilah with a married, dancing couple escorted by Mercury, (appearing here the god of male transition from youthful independence to conjugal obligation and order), this artist updated the Petrarchan theme of the "Triumph of Love" with Florentine humanist conjugal imagery found in Marsilio Ficino and Botticelli's Primavera. See my essay on Botticelli's mythologies (especially the "Birth of Venus" and "Primavera") posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 15th Italian
