The Fiore and the Detto d'Amore: A Late-Thirteenth-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose Attributable to Dante Alighieri

by Christopher Kleinhenz

Book Overview

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 the use of personifications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268008930
• ISBN13: 9780268008932
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"