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The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History »

Authors: Karla Mallette
ISBN-13: 9780812238853, ISBN-10: 0812238850
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: August 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Karla Mallette

Karla Mallette is Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.

Book Synopsis

In The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250, Karla Mallette writes the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The study contains an extensive selection of poems and documents translated from the Arabic, Latin, Old French, and Italian.

1	Toward a literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily	1
2	An archeology of the Sicilian park	17
3	Frederick II and the genesis of a Sicilian romance culture	47
4	Rereading Le Origini : Sicilian romance poetry and the language of natural philosophy	65
5	Beyond Le Origini : Sicilian romance poetry in a feminine voice	84
6	Vernacularity and Sicilian culture	110
	Texts in translation
	From the Arabic
	Ibn Hamdis : "in youth, the soul attains its desire" (from the Siqilliyyat)	131
	Ibn Hamdis : "because of long-lasting grief" (from the Siqilliyyat)	134
	Ibn Hamdis : "oh, garden of love"	137
	Ibn Hamdis : "you tortured me with the two elements"	138
	Abu Musa : "oh, blonde tribe, my blood is on your hands"	138
	Abu Musa : "my tears expose my love"	139
	Al-Atrabanishi : "oh, Favara of the two seas!"	139
	Al-Buthayri and Ibn Bashrun : "pass round the golden carnelian-red [wine]"	141
	Abu al-Daw : "the radiant moon has been extinguished"	143
	Abu Hafs : "he sought solace"	145
	Introduction to al-Idrisi's Geography	146
	The travels of Ibn Jubayr	148
	The daughter of Ibn 'Abbad and Frederick II	151
	From the Latin
	Henricus Aristippus's preface of his translation of Plato's Phaedo, ca. 1156	154
	Preface to a translation of Ptolemy's Almagest by an unknown translator, ca. 1160	156
	"Hugo Falcandus" on the death of William and the arrival of the Germans	158
	Peter of Eboli, Lament on the death of William II	161
	Frederick II, Hunting with birds	162
	Frederick II and Lucera	164
	Innocent IV excommunicates Frederick	166
	The destruction of Lucera	167
	From the old French
	Introduction of the Book of Sydrac	168
	From the Sicilian
	Giacomo da Lentini : "Maravigliosamente"	172
	Giacomo da Lentini : "Amor non vole"	174
	Giacomo da Lentini : "Or come pote si gran donna intrare"	175
	Giacomo da Lentini : "A l'aire claro o vista ploggia dare"	176
	Frederick II, "Dolze meo drudo"	177
	Mazzeo di Ricco, "Sei anni o travagliato"	178
	Rinaldo d'Aquino, "Gia mai non mi conforto"	180
	Guido delle Colonne, "Ancor che l'aigua per lo foco lassi"	182
	Anonymous, "Oi lassa 'namorata"	185