The Book of the Lover and the Beloved

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Ramon Llull. The Book of the Lover and the Beloved

The Book of the Lover and the Beloved

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

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II

III

THE BOOK OF THE LOVER. AND THE BELOVED

Footnote

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Ramon Llull

Translated from the Catalan of Ramón Lull with an Introductory Essay by E. Allison Peers

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Aloma is grieved, and endeavours to marry Blanquerna to a beautiful girl called Cana. Blanquerna’s reply is to persuade Cana to become a nun, while he himself retires to the desert to carry out his resolve. The story then describes circumstantially and with some prolixity the lives of Evast and Aloma after Blanquerna has left them; it passes on to Cana, who eventually becomes abbess of her convent; and finally, after some long digressions upon convent life, to the later history of Blanquerna, which occupies the rest of the romance.

The second book of Blanquerna deals with the hero’s life before he is ordained priest and rises to the rank of abbot in the monastery which he has entered. A digression follows, entitled ‘The Book of Ave Maria,’ purporting to be an account of the devotions to Our Lady which the hero established. The third book presents him as a bishop, and the fourth as pope.

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