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Streszczenie książki Dawne historie miłosne
- 8 min czytania
- 8 parts
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A young page stops eating until his lady grants his wish, and the returning lord tries to discover what is wrong.
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Dawne historie miłosne in short
Old Love Stories gathers twelve short tales, with the final six set in successive centuries from the thirteenth to the eighteenth. Albertazzi claims that passions stay the same while customs change, and the stories test that claim with a fasting page, a bride on a roan horse, a monk in Jericho, a ghost in a bedsheet, and a count who takes a pulse. What you keep is a sense of how many forms love can take.
What Dawne historie miłosne is about
What would you do if a young page decided to eat nothing until the lady of the castle said yes? In the first tale of Old Love Stories, a page named Ugo does exactly that, and the lady must decide what to do before her husband comes home.
Adolfo Albertazzi, an Italian writer, signed the preface in Mantua in 1895. He gives twelve tales, from medieval castles and religious legends to the eighteenth century. His idea is plain: human passions stay the same, and only customs change.
Dla kogo. You will love this book if you enjoy short tales of love and trickery, castles and crusades, wit and passion, and one human feeling dressed in the costumes of six centuries.
The story in 8 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A page fasts for love and a horse waits
The book opens in the Middle Ages with two tales of love that cannot be spoken aloud. In The Stubborn Page, set at Ripalta Castle, Ugo is a page raised almost like a son by the lord. Lady Ginevra, the lord's cheerful young wife, laughs at his pranks and sings at her window.
At fifteen Ugo hears her singing far above him and understands whom he loves. When the lord rides off to a tournament, Ugo declares himself, and she drives him out in anger. Then he vows to eat nothing until she grants his wish. The lord comes home, and she must explain herself with her husband at the bedside.
The second tale, The Roan, is darker. Giovanna and the poor knight Raimondo speak every night across a castle moat, because her miserly father will not hear of the match. Her plan is that his uncle will pretend to give him land, to be handed back after the wedding. But the uncle sees Giovanna and wants her for himself. He betrays his nephew, and Raimondo offers the loan of his gentle roan as the bride's mount.
Love grows from small things, and it will not be argued out of its goal.
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Two lovers stand at the edge of sin
The next two tales put a man at a threshold and ask what he will do.
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Faith, a ring, and a voice in singing
Two tales of faith follow, and in both love and religion pull against each other.
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Mistaken rides, false ghosts, and a sickbed bargain
Three tales now lean toward comedy and trickery.
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Letters, a false name, and a pulse
The last three tales belong to the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and love becomes more worldly and more calculating.
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Cleverness is love's favorite tool
One thing stands out across these twelve tales: people in love become inventive.
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Desire and conscience pull in opposite directions
Albertazzi also returns again and again to a second theme, the battle between what a person wants and what a person believes is right.
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A single idea told in many voices
The way these tales are told matters as much as what they tell.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Ugo A young page at Ripalta Castle who falls in love with his lord's wife and will stop at nothing, even hunger, to be heard.
- Lady Ginevra The cheerful young wife of the lord of Ripalta, who must think fast when a page's passion threatens her peace.
- Giovanna del Farneto A young woman who loves a poor knight and meets him each night across a moat, while her miserly father plans another match.
- Bertramo d'Aquino A knight at the court of Anjou, admired for courtesy, who passionately desires his friend's wife but finally refuses to betray him.
- Friar Gerunzio A monk at Pentula who gave away his fortune and fasted, yet cannot quiet his body, and goes down to Jericho in disguise.
- Madonna Lisa The young wife of a prayerful old man, who keeps her lovers and her laughter hidden behind a show of piety.
- Domitilla A widow who has read too many romances, plays a mysterious prisoner in a garden, and hopes to rule the man she enchants.
- Count La Fratta A vain and faithful admirer of the Marchesa Arnisio, who wants to know whether she has a heart and for whom it beats.
How it ends (spoiler)
Several tales end in sharp turns. Ginevra tells her husband that Ugo wants his peregrine falcon, so Ugo eats and receives both the bird and her smile. Giovanna's father dies smiling at the roan. Bertramo refuses to wrong his friend and leaves. Gerunzio is struck with leprosy and finds salvation. Riccardo embraces his son and falls dead. The sinning virgin is seized by a demon. Agnesina and Rinaldo ride away. Anastasio is beaten black and blue. Alvise publishes the letters. Alfonso shoots Gabrio. The marquis thanks the count.
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What is Old Love Stories about?
It is a collection of twelve short tales of love, with the final six set in successive centuries from the thirteenth to the eighteenth. They include comic, devout, and cruel stories about desire, trickery, honor, and conscience.
Who wrote Old Love Stories and when?
Adolfo Albertazzi, an Italian writer, wrote it. He signed the preface in Mantua in 1895. He died in 1924. The tales are based on older fabliaux, saints' lives, tale books, and real Venetian letters.
Are the stories in Old Love Stories true?
They are fiction built on old sources. The author lists them at the end, including French fabliaux, the Gesta Romanorum, and real love letters from Venice in 1569. He also marks which parts he invented.
What is the main message of Old Love Stories?
The preface states it: human passions do not change, while customs and outward forms do. The tales explore recurring feelings of desire, jealousy, guilt, and tenderness across changing historical settings.
Is Old Love Stories easy to read?
Each tale is short and self-contained, so you can read one at a time. The stories have clear plots, vivid settings, and a light humor that carries the reader along from castle to cloister to city.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Albertazzi, Adolfo. Old Love Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/old-love-stories.
Albertazzi, A. (2026). Old love stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/old-love-stories
Albertazzi, Adolfo. Old Love Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/old-love-stories.
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