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Songs of a friend : love lyrics of medieval Portugal : selections from Cantigas de amigo / translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler.
Van Pelt Library PQ9163.E6 S66 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Portuguese poetry--To 1500--Translations into English.
- Portuguese poetry.
- Love poetry, Portuguese--Translations into English.
- Love poetry, Portuguese.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Cantigas de Amigo
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More than five hundred of these mysterious poems depicting a young girl's love for an absent lover survive today. Until now, however, they have remained inaccessible except to a small circle of scholar.
- Notes:
- The greater part of the translations are made from the edition of J.J. Nunes, Cantigas d'amigo dos trovadores galego-portugueses, Coimbra, 1926.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 080782271X
- 0807845744
- OCLC:
- 33047217
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