Fiore and the Detto d’Amore, TheThis is the first English translation of Il Fiore, the late thirteenth century narrative poem in 232 sonnets based on the Old French Roman de la Rose, and the Detto dAmore, a free wheeling version of many Ovidian precepts of love in 240 rhymed couplets. The elaborate allegory of the Fiore presents the complex workings of love, understood primarily as carnal passion, in the human psyche through the use of personifications of a wide array of characters