Art of Courtly Love (Duckworth classical, medieval, and renaissance editions)
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Published: October 1982
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780715614365
Subjects: Courtly love; Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); Translations into English
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.