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| | ROMAN DE LA ROSE - LoveToKnow Article on ROMAN DE LA ROSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Guillaume de Lorris wrote an allegory, possibly of an adventure of his own, which is an artistic and beautiful presentment of the love philosophy of the troubadours. |
 | | In the second part, however, the story is entirely subsidiary to the display of the authors encyclopaedic knowledge, to picturesque and poetic digressions, and to violent satire in the manner of the fabliaux against the abuse of power, against women, against popular superstition, and against the celibacy of the clergy. |
 | | A Flemish version by Hem van Aken appeared during Jean de Meuns lifetime, and at the beginning of the 14th century a free imitation, in the form of a series of sonnets, II Fiore, was written in Italian by the Tuscan poet Durante. |
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