Gesta Romanorum is Latin story-collection, with each story having an application or allegorization. Some evidence suggests that a Franciscan cleric wrote it late in the thirteenth century. It was known by the early fourteenth century. It was one of the most widely known books within the European Middle Ages. Gesta Romanorum is an open work. It lacks one master version, although many stories are common across most versions.
De amore incorporated the sophistic form of Seneca’s Controversiae. Gesta Romanorum included Seneca’s story of a woman freeing a man from incarceration. … Read the post De amore & Gesta Romanorum revised Seneca’s Controversiae
A masculine medieval Latin story of crapping crows became in later French literature a story of laying eggs. That’s feminizing literary development. … Read the post crapping crows, laying eggs & medieval masculine difference
The ancient Greek lawgiver Zaleucus gouged out his son’s eyes and his own to fulfill law punishing adultery. Blindness deflects Cupid’s arrows of love. … Read the post Zaleucus gouged out eyes as punishment for adultery
Within four centuries after Julius Caesar’s death, the Panchatantra used a cowardly donkey in playing with Caesar’s boast in Latin: “veni, vidi, vici.” … Read the post Panchatantra plays with Julius Caesar’s veni, vidi, vici