Literary notes about fulgor (AI summary)
In literature, fulgor is employed as a richly evocative term that signifies a dazzling brilliance merging the physical and the symbolic. Authors use it to capture the ephemeral glow of a fading light, as when a dying lamp casts its final spark ([1]), and to evoke a rejuvenating radiance that stirs a despondent world into awakening, as seen in a passage where a gleam enlivens a subdued Europe ([2]). It also conveys divine or heroic splendor, such as the celebrated “Unguinum fulgor” that illumines not only objects but the spirit of a people ([3]), or even the majestic brightness attributed to a transcendent force ([4]). In each case, fulgor transcends mere luminosity to suggest emotion, vitality, and the interplay between shadow and light.
- La moribunda lámpara que ardía Trémula lanza su postrer fulgor, Y, en honda oscuridad, noche sombría La misteriosa calle encapotó.
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda - Surse quì la face aurata [185] Sull’Europa ottenebrata, E l’Europa a quel fulgor Si scotea dal suo torpor.
— from Gabriele Rossetti: A Versified Autobiography by Gabriele Rossetti - The “Unguinum fulgor” of the Latins who did not forget to celebrate the shining of the nails although they did not Henna them like Easterns.
— from A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 04 (of 17) - [578] Certe fulgor ipsa et majestas divinitatis occultæ, quæ etiam in humanâ facie relucebat, ex primo ad se venientes trahere poterat aspectu.—
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow
