 According to him, the poetry and music of Hildegard's Symphonia would, therefore, be concerned with the anatomy of female desire thus described as Sapphonic, or pertaining to Sappho, connecting her to a history of female rhetoricians.Hildegard's medicinal and scientific writings, though thematically complementary to her ideas about nature expressed in her visionary works, are different in focus and scope.Neither claim to be rooted in her visionary experience and its divine authority.