THE LOVE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE
THE LOVE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE
Translated from the original latin and now reprinted from the edition of 1722: together with a brief account of their lives and work
RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR·CHICAGO
Copyright 1903
by
Ralph Fletcher Seymour
THE STORY OF ABELARD AND HELOISE.
It sometimes happens that Love is little esteemed by those who choose rather to think of other affairs, and in requital He strongly manifests His power in unthought ways. Need is to think of Abelard and Heloise: how now his treatises and works are memories only, and how the love of her (who in lifetime received little comfort therefor) has been crowned with the violet crown of Grecian Sappho and the homage of all lovers.
The world itself was learning a new love when these two met; was beginning to heed the quiet call of the spirit of the Renaissance, which, at its consummation, brought forth the glories of the Quattrocento.