Art of Courtly Love
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (Np)
Published: October 1969
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780393098488
First sentence: Love is certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace.