Talk:Confessio Amantis

Source

The Confessio Amantis may be found in Volumes II and III of The Complete Works of John Gower: (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Volume I consists of his works in French, and Volume IV contains his Latin works, and so would not be hosted here. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:40, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: I'm quite curious--why DID Zhaladshar (talk • contribs) split Liber Primus into two parts?? I can't find that user's divider (between lines "1763 As he was thanne of mariage. / 1764 And sche began to pleie and rage,") on the corresponding page of the source text. (Yes, I know Zhaladshar created those Wikisource pages back in 2005, but I'm not sure what his reasoning for splitting Liber Primus in half was. I would ask him myself, but he's no longer active on Wikisource.) Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 15:36, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

I do not know. I do not know what location this text was pulled from. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:40, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Actually, here's a better text source for Volume II of The Complete Works of John Gower: File:The complete works of John Gower (IA completeworksofj02gowe).pdf.
(You'll have to speak with Fæ if you want Volume III uploaded to Commons, since I really do not know how to transfer an Internet Archive file to Commons like Flickr2Commons.)

Anyway, do you think it might be more feasible to add all the text from Liber Primus/Part 2 to the end of Liber Primus/Part 1, and then move the Part 1 page to simply Confessio Amantis/Liber Primus?
That way, we can re-link Libers Primus through Quartus on the Confessio Amantis index-page so that (for instance) it just links to Confessio Amantis/Liber Quartus. (I'm thinking of taking out the "Incipit", which simply means "[it] begins" in Latin, because it's only used at the start of each book in the Confessio.)
But of course, we should NOT do the same re-linking with Liber Quintus, because it's divided between Volumes II and III, as written on page 456: "(Libri Quinti §§ iii-xiii in sequenti volumine continentur)". Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 16:34, 16 July 2024 (UTC)