XO40 Fabliaux: Ribald Tales from the Old French

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Fabliaux: Ribald Tales from the Old French, translated by Robert Hellman and Richard O’Gorman, illustrated by Ashley Bryan (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965)

Penn Libraries, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, PQ1302.E5 H44 1965

The artist Ashley Bryan was commissioned to illustrate this work, which contains a piece by Henri d’Andeli, Le Lai d’Aristote, written around 1220 and here translated as The Lay of Aristotle. This medieval story depicts Aristotle as a moralizing old fool, who berates his king, Alexander, for falling under the spell of a woman, only to fall under her spell himself. The woman's revenge is to ride him like a horse, with a saddle, as the King watches. After that, Aristotle admits that “All I have read and learned Love has turned to nothing in a single hour.” Bryan’s linoleum cut depicts the scene of humiliation, with the King watching from his window.

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