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On the Four Degrees of Violent Charity

Richard of St. Victor

This book is in Latin.

Richard’s short treatise on four degrees of love that wounds, binds, makes single and cannot be satisfied, taking as its text “I am wounded with charity” (Canticle 2:5). Latin only, from the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 196, 1855), a machine-corrected OCR.

Contents

Source: The complete PL text with its chapter divisions. PL page breaks and column numbers are dropped, and the PL tables of chapters (which repeat the chapter headings) are not imported. The OCR carries a few residual slips.