The Fiore and the Detto d'Amore: A Late-Thirteenth-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose Attributable to Dante Alighieri - Hardcover
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The Fiore and the Detto d'Amore: A Late-Thirteenth-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose Attributable to Dante Alighieri
This is the first English translation of Il Fiore, the late-thirteenth-century narrative poem in 232 sonnets based on the Old French Roman de la Rose, and the Detto d'Amore, a free-wheeling version of many Ovidian precepts of love in 240 rhymed couplets. The elaborate allegory of the Fiore presents the complex workings of love, understood primarily as carnal passion, in the human psyche through...
Santa Casciani is Director of the Bishop Anthony M. Pilla Program in Italian American Studies at John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. She is the editor of Dante and the Franciscans (2006) and co-editor of Word, Image, Number: Communications in the Middle Ages (2002).
Christopher Kleinhenz is Carol Mason Kirk Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is co-editor...
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