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The Detto d’Amore

Attributed to Dante (attribution doubtful)

This book is in Italian.

The Detto d’Amore: a poem of 480 seven-syllable lines in rhyming couplets (late 13th century), another reworking of the Roman de la Rose, preserved anonymously in the same Montpellier manuscript as the Fiore and attributed, doubtfully, to Dante. The text is from it.wikisource (Poemetti allegorico-didattici del secolo XIII), one verse to a line. Attribution to Dante doubtful. No public-domain English exists.

Contents

Source: The whole poem as one chapter; verse-number anchors dropped. Italian only.