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Mal d’amore – Unrequited Love in Medieval Chivalric Romance

This paper addresses the issue of the emotion of unrequited love seen through the prism of chivalric romances, that is, the story of Elaine, the demoiselle d’Escalot. By analysing the transference of literary works from France to Italy and the dissemination of courtly literature and the ideas they propagated this paper will contrapose the two narratives and highlight the differences and similarities between the thirteenth-century French and Italian versions of the story with regards to its main themes: unrequited love, death and by extension its consequences in the form of destabilization of social order.

Unrequited love ; chivalric romances ; Elaine demoiselle d’Escalot ; Italy ; France ; Middle Ages

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