Ovide moralise

Livre I

edited and translated by Prunelle Deleville and Marylene Possamai-Perez

Book cover: Ovide moralise

Extent: 123 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Moyen Age en traduction

Series volume number: 15

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(September 2024)

ISBN: 9782406172642

8.62 x 5.94 inches

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ISBN: 9782406172659

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This text presents Book I of Ovide moralise, a fourteenth-century French translation in verse of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (edited by the Ovide en Francais team). In their rendition, the anonymous translator aimed to convey the didactic tone, poetical language, and underlying mechanisms of the poem. In this critical edition, the introduction summarizes the various episodes and critical studies and explains the allegorical approach.

Prunelle Deleville enseigne la littérature médiévale à l’université de Genève. Elle codirige avec Elena Koroleva le projet d’édition de la Fleur des histoires. Elle réfléchit aux potentialités littéraires de l’écriture didactique à travers l’étude des traductions des recueils d’exempla en Europe. Elle participe également à l’étude d’une autre tradition exemplaire, celle du Cycle des Sept Sages.

  • Edited and translated by Prunelle Deleville
  • Edited and translated by Marylene Possamai-Perez