Regulae amoris no Tratado de André Capelão

Abstract

With this study we propose a journey to the dawn of the French 12th Century, to meet André Capelão and his De Amore, a Latin treaty dealing with love with a strong Ovidian influence, at the start of aetas ovidiana, but written by a Clergyman. We have translated and stylistically analysed the extremely important eighth chapter of the second tome where the thirty-one rules of Love are listed, after the narration of a brief episode with a courtly theme that shows the influence of the trendy Britain literature, yet also the influence of the oral and popular tradition.