Emily C. Francomano is Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. Clara Pascual-Argente is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Université de Toulouse.

This is a most welcome addition to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library…Emily Francomano and Clara Pascual-Argente provide a lucid and insightful comparative survey of the two versions and their respective treatment of inherited themes and hagiographic and folkloric elements. They fully appreciate the clerical poet’s creativity, verbal playfulness, skillful command of structure, and affective and tonal range, showing the Libro to be a beautiful and moving poem that deserves to be more widely read. The work is a fine example of translation as research. It should encourage DOML to continue its Iberian venture and assist more anglophone readers to travel south of the Pyrenees.

Emily C. Francomano is Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. Clara Pascual-Argente is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Université de Toulouse.

This is a most welcome addition to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library…Emily Francomano and Clara Pascual-Argente provide a lucid and insightful comparative survey of the two versions and their respective treatment of inherited themes and hagiographic and folkloric elements. They fully appreciate the clerical poet’s creativity, verbal playfulness, skillful command of structure, and affective and tonal range, showing the Libro to be a beautiful and moving poem that deserves to be more widely read. The work is a fine example of translation as research. It should encourage DOML to continue its Iberian venture and assist more anglophone readers to travel south of the Pyrenees.

Emily C. Francomano is Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. Clara Pascual-Argente is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Université de Toulouse.

This is a most welcome addition to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library…Emily Francomano and Clara Pascual-Argente provide a lucid and insightful comparative survey of the two versions and their respective treatment of inherited themes and hagiographic and folkloric elements. They fully appreciate the clerical poet’s creativity, verbal playfulness, skillful command of structure, and affective and tonal range, showing the Libro to be a beautiful and moving poem that deserves to be more widely read. The work is a fine example of translation as research. It should encourage DOML to continue its Iberian venture and assist more anglophone readers to travel south of the Pyrenees.