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Fiore and the Detto d'Amore, The - A Late-Thirteenth-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose Attributable to Dante Alighieri (Hardcover)
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Fiore and the Detto d'Amore, The - A Late-Thirteenth-Century Italian Translation of the Roman de la Rose Attributable to Dante Alighieri (Hardcover)
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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 of a wide array of
characters who engage in various social (and bellic) interactions.
There are personifications of social stereotypes and attitudes,
mythological figures, abstract qualities, psychological and
physical states, and personality traits. The Detto d'Amore includes
features of the perennial controversy between proponents of the
pleasures of erotic passion and those who counsel pursuit of the
sublime joys found solely in the exercise of reason. The incomplete
poem also contains a conventionalized-and idealized-description of
the physical traits of the lady, as well as a portrait of the
perfect courtly lover. The importance of these two works lies in
part in their possible attribution to the great Florentine poet
Dante Alighieri. But even if Dante is not the author, the Fiore is
a valuable witness to the literary taste and cultural concerns of
medieval Italy and to matters of poetic influence and reception
among different literary traditions.
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