Pamphilus de amore

Pamphilus de amore in an incunable printed ca. 1480–1484 in Zaragoza by Pablo Hurus and Juan Planck

Pamphilus de amore (or, simply, Pamphilus or Pamfilus) is a 780-line, 12th-century Latin comedic play, probably composed in France, but possibly Spain.[1] It was "one of the most influential and important of the many pseudo-Ovidian productions concerning the 'arts of Love'" in medieval Europe,[2] and "the most famous and influential of the medieval elegiac comedies, especially in Spain".[1] The protagonists are Pamphilus and Galatea, with Pamphilus seeking to woo her through a procuress (as with the procuress in Book 1.8 of Ovid's Amores).[1]

  1. ^ a b c Vincente Cristóbal, "Ovid in Medieval Spain", in Ovid in the Middle Ages, ed. James G. Clark, Frank T. Coulson and Kathryn L. McKinley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 231–256 (p. 241).
  2. ^ Thomas Jay Garbaty, "Pamphilus, de Amore: An Introduction and Translation", The Chaucer Review, 2 (1967), pp, 108–134 (p. 108 ff.) [1].