El Libro de la Rosa

Work that reached enormous diffusion during the Middle Ages, "The Book of the Rose" is the result of the articulation of two very different authors and of different generations. Yes, still influenced by the last blows of courtly love, Guillaume de Lorris wrote his first 4,000 verses with the intention of making an allegorical amatory art, leaving the work unfinished although practically only in the absence of a clasp, Jean de Meun (c. 1245-1305), Stoic, hedonist and Neoplatonic, possessor of extensive knowledge and member of a society in crisis, not only did he bring this brooch forty years later, as many others had done before, but in his 18,000 verses Additional, from this origin, he raised a "mirror of lovers" reworking his original inspiration from innumerable points of view and thus endowing it with new and varied facets. This multiplicity, often covered in irony and cynicism, opens the work to many more areas and interests and makes it in a certain way a compendium of knowledge that ultimately gave the work its vast fame, making it the object of abbreviations, translations and all kinds of jobs.