The Book of Good Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Good Love write by Mario D. Di Cesare. This book was released on 1970. The Book of Good Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A masterpiece in the tradition of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, Juan Ruiz's fourteenth-century Spanish narrative poem combines the comic and the serious, the bawdy and the practical, the satiric and the tender, the devout and the blasphemous. In a first prose translation, Professors Mignani and Di Cesare succeed in conveying the vitality and sly humor of the original. The poem consists of a loosely unified series of fourteen amorous adventures of the Archpriest of Hita, interlaced with debates, fabliaux, fables, and exempla. Ruiz suggests that while man ought to seek buen amor (true love, or love of God), he is prone to loco amor, or worldly love. The Book proposes to show human folly so that men may be forewarned of the bad and choose the good. The episodes related in the stanzas and in songs in various lyrical styles parody such conventions as courtly love, epic battle, or church ritual. Ruiz was clearly fascinated by the concrete, as well as the allegorical, for his episodes have dates and actual settings, and popular speech is incorporated into his verses. In their introduction, the translators survey the major scholarly studies of the poem and offer their own critical reading of it. Their annotated bibliography and notes to the translation will be useful to students as well as scholars.
Those Elegant Decorums
Those Elegant Decorums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Those Elegant Decorums write by Jane Nardin. This book was released on 1973-01-01. Those Elegant Decorums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.
The Courts of Love
The Courts of Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courts of Love write by Jean Plaidy. This book was released on 2006-05-23. The Courts of Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me—my triumphs and most of my misfortunes—was due to my passionate relationships with men. I was a woman who considered herself their equal—and in many ways their superior—but it seemed that I depended on them, while seeking to be the dominant partner—an attitude which could hardly be expected to bring about a harmonious existence. Eleanor of Aquitaine was revered for her superior intellect, extraordinary courage, and fierce loyalty. She was equally famous for her turbulent relationships, which included marriages to the kings of both France and England. As a child, Eleanor reveled in her beloved grandfather’s Courts of Love, where troubadours sang of romantic devotion and passion filled the air. In 1137, at the age of fifteen, Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine, the richest province in Europe. A union with Louis VII allowed her to ascend the French throne, yet he was a tepid and possessive man and no match for a young woman raised in the Courts of Love. When Eleanor met the magnetic Henry II, the first Plantagenet King of England, their stormy pairing set great change in motion—and produced many sons and daughters, two of whom would one day reign in their own right. In this majestic and sweeping story, set against a backdrop of medieval politics, intrigue, and strife, Jean Plaidy weaves a tapestry of love, passion, betrayal, and heartbreak—and reveals the life of a most remarkable woman whose iron will and political savvy enabled her to hold her own against the most powerful men of her time.
Love That Dog
Love That Dog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love That Dog write by Sharon Creech. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Love That Dog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more. Soon the little boy is writing about all sorts of things he has not really come to terms with, and astounding things start to happen.
I Love a Good Book
I Love a Good Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Love a Good Book write by Kimberlie Harris. This book was released on 2020-08. I Love a Good Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From learning his letters and shapes with Grandma first thing in the morning to snuggling up with Daddy after a bath, one little boy loves time spent reading a good book with his loved ones. But, he has a secret! Can you guess his favorite way to read a good book? Jump into the pages of this delightfully tasty book to find out what makes reading so great!
