DESCRIZIONE
This edition of two chapters of Lorens of Orl ans’ best-selling Somme le Roi in French and Occitan is intended as a tribute to the late Prof. Peter Ricketts, whose untimely death prevented the achievement of his own projected edition of the complete Occitan text, for which a commentary was to be provided by Dr Simon Tugwell OP in which particular attention would be paid to Lorens’s immediate sources such as Miroir du monde, Peraldus, Vincent of Beauvais, Stephen of Bourbon, as well as standard Parisian theologians such as Peter Comestor, and to the relationship between the French original and the Occitan and Middle English versions. The importance of this for the establishment and interpretation of the text is illustrated in the introduction to this small sample and the accompanying commentary. In addition to the usual indices there are Old French, Old Occitan, and Middle English glossaries. Fr Simon Tugwell, a member of the English Dominican Province, was President of the Historical Institute of the Order of Preachers from 1992 to 1997. He has written extensively on the life of St Dominic and the early history of the Order of Preachers. His most recent publications in the Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica series are the legendas of St. Dominic by Humbert of Romans (2008) and Petrus Ferrandi (2015).

AUTORE
Fr Simon Tugwell, a member of the English Dominican Province, was President of the Historical Institute of the Order of Preachers from 1992 to 1997. He has written extensively on the life of St Dominic and the early history of the Order of Preachers. His most recent publications in the Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica series are the legendas of St. Dominic by Humbert of Romans (2008) and Petrus Ferrandi (2015).