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Title:
La danse macabre des femmes
toute hystoriee et augmentee de plusieurs personnages et beaux dictz en latin et francoys
Note: Reading ease score: 53.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
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Summary: "La danse macabre des femmes" by Anonymous is a historical text likely written in the late medieval to early Renaissance period. This book is a dramatic allegory that centers around the theme of mortality, presented through a dance of death involving women from various societal classes and conditions. The likely topic of the book revolves around the inevitable nature of death and serves as a moral reminder to its readers. The content of the book unfolds through a series of poetic dialogues where Death personified converses with various women—from queens to commoners—about their lives and their fates. Each character reflects on their joys, regrets, and earthly possessions, often dismissing the transient nature of life and the folly of human pride. As the dance progresses, each woman is called to acknowledge the certainty of her mortality, reminding readers that wealth, beauty, and status hold no power against death. This striking imagery emphasizes the universality of death, urging both acceptance and the importance of living a virtuous life in preparation for the afterlife. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Anonymous
EBook No.: 24300
Published: Jan 15, 2008
Downloads: 112
Language: French
Subject: Death -- Poetry
Subject: Women -- Poetry
Subject: Dialogues, French
Subject: French literature -- To 1500
Subject: French poetry -- To 1500
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title:
La danse macabre des femmes
toute hystoriee et augmentee de plusieurs personnages et beaux dictz en latin et francoys
Note: Reading ease score: 53.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Credits:
Produced by Carlo Traverso, Laurent Vogel and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http:
//www.pgdp.net
(This
file was produced from images generously made available
by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http:
//gallica.bnf.fr)
Summary: "La danse macabre des femmes" by Anonymous is a historical text likely written in the late medieval to early Renaissance period. This book is a dramatic allegory that centers around the theme of mortality, presented through a dance of death involving women from various societal classes and conditions. The likely topic of the book revolves around the inevitable nature of death and serves as a moral reminder to its readers. The content of the book unfolds through a series of poetic dialogues where Death personified converses with various women—from queens to commoners—about their lives and their fates. Each character reflects on their joys, regrets, and earthly possessions, often dismissing the transient nature of life and the folly of human pride. As the dance progresses, each woman is called to acknowledge the certainty of her mortality, reminding readers that wealth, beauty, and status hold no power against death. This striking imagery emphasizes the universality of death, urging both acceptance and the importance of living a virtuous life in preparation for the afterlife. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Anonymous
EBook No.: 24300
Published: Jan 15, 2008
Downloads: 112
Language: French
Subject: Death -- Poetry
Subject: Women -- Poetry
Subject: Dialogues, French
Subject: French literature -- To 1500
Subject: French poetry -- To 1500
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.