This is an interpretive essay briefly outlining the subject matter and history of the debates on the Italian language. It proposes not to produce new material, but it is selective, concentrating primarily on the sixteenth century. The study offers a clear revision of the complexity of the question, which was debated for six centuries, and the reasons for its final solution. Two appendices include a chronological table of the major documents used and a listing of notes and citations.

The Italian Questione della Lingua: An Interpretative Essay (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 4)

Literature & Fiction

Hall, Robert A.

History & Criticism

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies

Marquis de Louvois served as French Minister of War under Louis XIV. The letters published in this volume were written from July 1681 to August 1684 and deal almost entirely with the War in Flanders. They are ordered by military campaign into ten sections, and the volume includes an introduction, identification list, and bibliography.

Letters of Louvois, Selected from the Years 1681-1684 (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 10)

History

Russia

The Swiss writer and poet Juste Olivier was an eyewitness to the political and literary events in Paris during the July Revolution of 1830. His Journal is a keenly observed record of the Parisian intelligentsia of that period.

Paris en 1830: Journal de Juste Olivier (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 19)

Delattre, Andre

First rendered into Spanish from Arabic in 1253, this book became the inspiration for many great books of European literature. Keller's translation of this collection of Jewish and Islamic folklore will be of value to folklorists and students of Spanish and comparative literature, and will also interest anyone who likes lively tales.

The Book of the Wiles of Women (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 27)

In this definitive work, Donald Fowler Brown corrects many previous misconceptions about the works of Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), and offers a detailed study of six of her novels, showing how the French Naturalism contributed to them, and how Zola's chief Spanish follower could at once be a materialist and a staunch Catholic.

The Catholic Naturalism of Pardo Bazán (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 28)

Brown, Donald Fowler

This descriptive study of the sentence structure of the French language from 1300 to 1515 bridges the gap between Lucien Foulet's Petite syntaxe de l'ancien francais and Haase's Syntaxe francais du XVIIeme siecle.

A Brief Description of Middle French Syntax (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 29)

Gardner, Rosalyn

This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.

Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 33)

McCulloch, Florence

This book is a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603)--in particular La Sagesse--and of the impact of his writings. Jean Daniel Charron sheds new light upon this great figure in French literature, and argues that he should be considered more important and original than previously thought.

The "Wisdom" of Pierre Charron: An Original and Orthodox Code of Morality (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 34)

Charron, Jean Daniel

Formulaic Diction and Thematic Composition in the Chanson de Roland (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 36)

Nichols, Stephen G.

Bernart de Ventadorn was a twelfth-century Catalan poet and troubador. These forty-one poems, filled with nostalgia, joy, and tenderness, were written between 1150 and 1180. This edition, with notes and a complete glossary, contains the original texts accompanied by the only English translations available at the time of publication.

The Songs of Bernart de Ventadorn (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 39)

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