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Fantastic Fables: A 14th-Century Book of Moral Tales and Dialogues

What did the fire say to the water? Why did a jewel want to travel the world? In this book of Latin dialogues and fables, the Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus, moral and scientific questions are answered through lively stories.

Concerning Life and Death

De vita et morte

Concerning Man and Woman

De homine et muliere

Concerning Precious Topaz

De topasio pretioso

The Moral Dialogue of Creatures [Preface]

Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus [Præfatio]