Mine is the golden tongue : the Hebrew sonnets of Immanuel of Rome

This volume contains the first known sonnets written in Hebrew. Their author is Immanuel of Rome, an intensely studied yet little-known 14th-century poet, who adapted the quantitative meter of Arabic and Hebrew poetry from al-Andalous to the syllabic meter of romance poetry. These poems are part of Immanuel's most studied book, Maḥbarot, a collection of poetic tales conceived between satire and allegory, which combine the Arabic maqama with the stilnovistic poetic form immortalized by Dante. Widely published during its author's lifetime and in the following centuries, the Maḥbarot as a whole has never been translated into any language.We hope our readers will enjoy these fragments of his poetic world and, through them, gain a glimpse of its roots beyond the borders of the "Western canon." [Publisher's text]

Poems in Hebrew with parallel English translation; critical matter in Italian,

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