Heinrich der Glichesaere, La volpe Reinhart

This book provides a new edition – and the first to appear in Italy– of the Middle High German epic Reinhart Fuchs written by Heinrich the Hypocrite . The introduction focuses on the influence of French and Latin literature on the Germanic beast epic between the X-XIII centuries and shows the originality of the German poet. After contextualizing Reinhart Fuchs among other poems written in Latin (Ligurinus, Archipoeta),Carla Del Zotto suggests a new etymology for the name Pendin as derived from the treatise Pantegni by Constantinus Africanus