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PAMPHILLES, PAMPHILUS. Pamphilus is the hero of the medieval Latin comedy in three acts, Pamphilus de amore, a story about Pamphilus's love for Galatea. Pamphilus Mauritianus, a poet of the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, is sometimes named as the author.

Aurelius loves Dorigen as secretly as Pamphilus loved Galathee, FranklT 1110. The quotation on wealth attributed to Pamphilles, Mel 1556, occurs in Pamphilus de amore 53-54. Dame Prudence says she quotes Pamphilles, Mel 1558, but she quotes Ovid, Tristia I.9.5-6. The quotation from Pamphilles at Mel 1561 refers to Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina clericalis IV. Severs points out that this quotation is lacking in the Latin version of the tale (S&A 600). The passage is not an exact translation of Petrus Alfonsi's story in the edition cited below.

Pamphilles appears only in the Melibee, Mel 1556, 1558, 1561; Pamphilus appears medially, FranklT 1110.

Albertanus Brixiensis, Liber consolationis et consilii, ed. T. Sundby, 54, 71, 98; Peter Dronke, "A Note on Pamphilus." JWCI 42 (1979): 225-230; T.J. Garbaty, "Pamphilus, De amore: An Introduction and Translation." ChauR 2 (1967-1968): 108-134; ibid., "The Pamphilus Tradition in Ruiz and Chaucer." PQ 46 (1967): 457-470; Gustave Cohen, ed., La "Comédie" Latine en France au XIIe siècle, II: 194-223; Seven Medieval Latin Comedies, trans. A.G. Elliott, 1-25; Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina clericalis, ed. and trans. E. Hermes, trans. into English P.R. Quarrie, 114; Renaud de Louens, Le Livre de Mellibee et Prudence, ed. J.B. Severs, S&A, 568-614.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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