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Wine, Women, and Song
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Very rarely there is a strong desire expressed for fidelity, [35]as in a beautiful lyric of absence, which I hope to give translated in full in my 17th Section.
But the end to be attained is always such as is summed up in these brief words placed upon a girl's lips:[24]—
"Dulcissime,Totam tibi subdo me."
And the motto of both sexes is this:[25]—
"Quicquid agant alii,Juvenes amemus."
It may be added, in conclusion, that the sweethearts of our students seem to have been mostly girls of the working and rustic classes, sometimes women of bad fame, rarely married women. In no case that has come beneath my notice is there any hint that one of them aspired to such amours with noble ladies as distinguished the Troubadours. A democratic tone, a tone of the proletariate, is rather strangely blent with the display of learning, and with the more than common literary skill app. . . Read More
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An intriguing exploration of the nearly-forgotten poetic output of a group of wandering students in the 12th and 13th centuries. They travelled between various monastic schools in Italy, Germany, and France in an attempt to learn what they could... but not sure what it would amount to. They were poo
Though I didn't care much for the poetry of the Wandering Students, this book was still an enjoyable read. John Addington Symonds is a sympathetic editor, and his background information, motivation for translating the poems and notes on the translations were all a joy to read. The poems themselves w
translation of medieval songs sung by the wandering students.
Though I have not read the original manuscripts of the songs described in this book (though I have, of course, read the contents of this book), I can say that Symonds' rendition, in the english language, is nothing, if not artfully and eloquently done. Though, perhaps, slightly dry, if one reads the