Il ninfale d’Ameto

…to 1345 he worked on Il ninfale d’Ameto (“Ameto’s Story of the Nymphs”), in prose and terza rima; L’amorosa visione (“The Amorous Vision”; 1342–43), a mediocre allegorical poem of 50 short cantos in terza rima; the prose Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta (1343–44); and the poem Il ninfale fiesolano (perhaps 1344–45;…

His Il ninfale d’Ameto, or, more properly, Commedia delle ninfe fiorentine (1341–42; “Comedy of the Florentine Nymphs”; Eng. trans. L’Ameto), a novel written in prose and verse, and his Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta (c. 1343; The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta or Amorous Fiammetta), a prose novel,…