Richard de Fournival or Richart de Fornival (1201- ?1260) was a medieval philosopher and trouvère perhaps best known for the Bestiaire d'Amour ("The Bestiary of Love"). Trouvère ( MWCD: /trü'ver trü'vər/ sometimes spelled trouveur, is the Northern French ( Langue d'oïl) form of the word Troubadour [1]
Richard de Fournival was born in Amiens on October 10, 1201. Amiens (amjɛ̃ is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km north of Paris. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated He was the son of Roger de Fournival (a personal physician to King Philip Augustus) and Elisabeth de la Pierre, his mother. Philip II Augustus (Philippe Auguste ( 21 August[[ 165]] &ndash 14 July 1223) was the King of France from 1180 until his death Richard had many great accomplishments in his life. Richard was successively canon, deacon, chancellor of the chapter of Notre Dame. He was also a Licensed surgeon, by the authority of Pope Gregory IX and this privilege was confirmed a second time in 1246 by Pope Innocent IV. Pope Gregory IX, born Ugolino di Conti, was Pope from March 19, 1227 to August Pope Innocent IV, born Sinibaldo Fieschi was Pope from June 28, 1243 to December 7, 1254. Richard also wrote several other books besides the Bestiaire d' Amour, including, the Biblionomia, Nativitas, and De arte alchemica, and it is probable that he also wrote Commens d'amours, Consaus d'amours, Poissance d'amours, and De vetula. [2]
Web source
- ^ Purdue University Press
- ^ De Fournival, Richard. Le Bestiaire d’ Amour. Trans. Jeanette Beer. California: University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986.
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