There also is an Italian prose version. I encountered it in this form in U
of Chicago 689, fol. 195r-211r: Comenza la legenda de san Barlam [et] de
san Iosaphato. Se leze nela vita de santi padri che in India era uno re
chiamato Aveneto...
Tom Izbicki
At 09:28 PM 11/27/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>At 06:55 PM 11/27/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>Today, 27 November, is the feast of ...
>>
>>* Barlaam and Josaphat (?)
>>- in a vita once attributed to St John Damascene, story is
>>told of how the ascetic Barlaam converted the young prince
>>Josaphat and eventually his father, king Abenner; all three
>>left the world and lived as hermits
>>- this vita appears to be a borrowing of the legend of
>>Siddartha Buddha
>
>I know that there's an Italian verse adaptation of this story composed in
>the second half of the fourteenth century by Neri di Landoccio Paglieresi,
>Sienese nobleman, poet, and close associate of Catherine of Siena. But I
>know little of its background. Was this story popular throughout the
>Middle Ages? How did it migrate into Christian culture? Is there
>secondary literature on it? (I know of Varanini's edition of Paglieresi's
>poem.)
>
>Tom
>
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