Tales and Trials of Love, Concerning Venus′s Pun – A Bilingual Edition and Study

Kelly Digby Peebles earned her PhD in French at the University of Virginia in 2010, specializing in literature of the French Renaissance. She now lives in South Carolina, where she is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of Languages at Clemson University. Marta Rijn Finch is an award-winning New England poet. She studied Latin, Greek, Russian, and Chinese, then lived in France for six years with her husband and two daughters, where she attended the Sorbonne, and translated the poetry of philosopher Simone Weil. Her earlier work for the Other Voice series, the Complete Poems of Pernette du Guillet, edited by Karen James, was published in 2010.  

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
The Other Voice 1
Imprimé nouvellement à Lyon 9
Comptes amoureux: Content and Analysis 14
Mismatched Marriage in Renaissance Literature 33
La Pugnition de l’amour contempné and the roman
sentimental 38
Telling Tales of Love in Lyon: La querelle des Amyes 41
Love and Marriage as Religious Dissidence in
Comptes amoureux 47
A Note on the French Text 49
Translator’s Note: Prose 52
Translator’s Note: Poetry 54
Tales and Trials of Love
Madame Egine Minerve to Noble Ladies-in-love 61
Epistle 63
Tale One 65
Tale Two 115
Tale Three 153
Tale Four 167
Tale Five 197
Tale Six 219
Tale Seven 251
Jeanne Flore to the Reader 261
Translation Notes 262
Appendix 1 295
Appendix 2 299
Appendix 3 303
Bibliography 307
Index 327