Flamenca

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Flamenca

Provençal poem

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romance
The Tristan story
… and in the Provençal romance Flamenca (c. 1234), in which it is treated comically.
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… and in the Provençal romance Flamenca (c. 1234), in which it is treated comically.
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Provençal literature
Decline and fall
…of a long romance, and Flamenca was a poem of more than 8,000 lines in which a lady by ingenious devices eludes the vigilance of her jealous husband: no book in medieval literature had more quickness of intellect or was more instructive about the manners and usages of polite society…
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…of a long romance, and Flamenca was a poem of more than 8,000 lines in which a lady by ingenious devices eludes the vigilance of her jealous husband: no book in medieval literature had more quickness of intellect or was more instructive about the manners and usages of polite society…
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