8 Ovide Moralisé Prologue Video

Enter the world of the Old French Moralized Ovid (Ovide Moralisé) and learn why a fourteenth-century writer, probably a Franciscan court confessor, decided to translate the Metamorphoses for court culture. Following in the footsteps of St. Augustine, he explains that everything written in old books is for our understanding: the good so that we may emulate it, and the bad, so we might avoid it.