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Translator: E. Allison Peers
THE BOOK OF THE LOVER AND THE BELOVED
THE BOOK OF THE LOVER AND THE BELOVED
TRANSLATED FROM THE CATALAN OF RAM?N LULL WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY
E. ALLISON PEERS
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK AND TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
PREFACE More than six centuries have passed since this little Majorcan classic was written, and, so far as I can find, it has never once been translated into English. Such an omission can only be explained by our comparative ignorance of the treasures of Spanish Mysticism, and perhaps in part by the fact that Lull wrote, not in Castilian, but in a little-known though beautiful idiom, that of Catalonia.
On the other hand, I have not allowed myself, through a desire to expound Lull's ideas, to substitute paraphrase for faithful and exact translation. Very few liberties have been taken with the text, and these only where a slight expansion or change of construction has served to bring out the meaning of an otherwise quite obscure word or phrase. Essentially, therefore, the reader has Lull's own vivid and forceful words, with the impediment of a foreign language removed.
E. ALLISON PEERS
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
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