Talk:Confessio Amantis

Source
The Confessio Amantis may be found in Volumes II and III of The Complete Works of John Gower:

Volume I consists of his works in French, and Volume IV contains his Latin works, and so would not be hosted here. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:40, 15 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm quite curious--why DID split Liber Primus into two parts?? I can't find that user's divider (between lines "1763 As he was thanne of mariage. / 1764 And sche began to pleie and rage,") on the corresponding page of the source text. (Yes, I know Zhaladshar created those Wikisource pages back in 2005, but I'm not sure what his reasoning for splitting Liber Primus in half was. I would ask him myself, but he's no longer active on Wikisource.) Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 15:36, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I do not know. I do not know what location this text was pulled from. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Actually, here's a better text source for Volume II of The Complete Works of John Gower: File:The complete works of John Gower (IA completeworksofj02gowe).pdf. (You'll have to speak with if you want Volume III uploaded to Commons, since I really do not know how to transfer an Internet Archive file to Commons like Flickr2Commons.)
 * Anyway, do you think it might be more feasible to add all the text from Liber Primus/Part 2 to the end of Liber Primus/Part 1, and then move the Part 1 page to simply Confessio Amantis/Liber Primus? That way, we can re-link Libers Primus through Quartus on the Confessio Amantis index-page so that (for instance) it just links to Confessio Amantis/Liber Quartus. (I'm thinking of taking out the "Incipit", which simply means "[it] begins" in Latin, because it's only used at the start of each book in the Confessio.) But of course, we should NOT do the same re-linking with Liber Quintus, because it's divided between Volumes II and III, as written on page 456: "( §§ iii-xiii in sequenti volumine continentur)". Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 16:34, 16 July 2024 (UTC)