出典:Wiktionary
Latin: cōnfessiō (“confession”) + amantis (“of loving”, the genitive 単数形 of amāns, “loving”, the present active participle of amō, “I love”)
confessio amantis (複数形 confessiones amantis または confessiones amantium)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/02/12 20:30 UTC 版)
Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its prologue, it was composed at the request of Richard II. It stands with the works of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl poet as one of the great works of late 14th century English literature.