10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PALESTRAL»
Discover the use of
palestral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
palestral and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, ...
In book 7, when Teseo declares that the fight for Emilia will be "com'un palestral
gioco" [like a palestral game], the glossator helpfully launches into a lengthy
explanation: Palestrale giuco era che gii uomini si solevano sopra le carne
vestire un ...
Suzanne C. Hagedorn, 2004
2
The riches of Chaucer: in which his impurities have been ...
Palestral.~\ The gymnastic games exercised at the funeral of heroes. The reader
is referred to a detailed account of the Pagan funereal solemnities to the sixth
book of the /Eneid. V. 308. My shield, &c.] The meaning of this line is ambiguous.
3
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer
... semeth best is for to done. “But of the fyr and flaumbe° funeral In whiche my
body brenne° shal to glede°, And of the feste° and pleyes palestral° At my vigile, I
pray the take good hede 305 That that be wel; and offre Mars my stede°, My
swerd ...
Mark Allen, John Fisher, 2011
4
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1837-1933
IV, st.165), of palestral (pleyes) ('Tr.', V, 304), renderingBoccaccio's palestral (
gioco) ('Teseide', VII, st. 27), of erratik (sterres) ('Tr.', V, 1812), corresponding to(
stelle) erratiche in 'Teseide',XI,st.1, ofaffect,a characteristically Dantesque word, ...
10 In Troilus V, 304— 5, Chaucer calls them 'pleyes palestral', specifying 'at my [
Troilus'] vigile'. The passage has no equivalent in the Filostrato. The word '
palestral' recurs nowhere else in Chaucer's works, and it is obviously derived
from the ...
301 “But of the fir and flaumbe funeral In which my body brennen shal to glede,
And of the feste and pleyes palestral At my vigile, I prey the, tak good hede 305
That that be wel; and ofifre Mars my steede, My swerd, myn helm; and, leve
brother ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Dean Benson, 2008
10 ln Troilus V, 304-5, Chaucer calls them 'pleyes palestral', specifying 'at my [
Troilus'] vigile'. The passage has no equivalent in the Filostrato. The word '
palestral' recurs nowhere else in Chaucer's works, and it is obviously derived
from the ...
8
Middle English Dictionary
.After the doctrine of Vygecius. al425(cl385) Chaucer TC 5.304: Of the feste and
pleyes palestral At my vigile, I prey the, tak goodhede. (cl433) Lydg. St. Edm. 395/
l052: Thisprynce.. Wolde for disport. .lik a knyht to haue exercise With marcial ...
Sherman M. Kuhn, Robert E. Lewis, 1983
9
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
He speaks of " the fyr and flaumbe funeral " that is to consume his body,8 of " the
pleyes palestral " (a phrase4 which Chaucer got from the Teseide). and requests
that his steed may. 1 Dr. B. A. Wise (The Influence ofStalius upon Chaucer, p.
10
The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay on His Language and ...
... with the Funeral-games of the Ancients. So in Troilus, v. 303. Troilus says to
Pandarus. But of the fire and flambe funeral In which my body brennen shall to
glede, And of the feste and playes palestral At my vigile I pray thee take good
hede.
