The price for flying too high
The price for flying too high

Author(s): Bogdan C.S. Pîrvu
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Psychology, Studies of Literature
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: The Ballad of Master Manole; Master Manole;
Summary/Abstract: The Ballad of Master Manole (edited by Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga, translated by Dan Duţescu and designed by Emil Chendea – in 1976; exquisitely analysed and contextualized by Petru Ursache in 1998, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019) goes that the Prince, ―with nine masons all, nine worthy craftsmen, with Manole ten, the highest in fame,‖ happed to see ―somewhere down the lea an old wall all rotten, unfinished, forgotten, on a green slope lush, near a hazel brush.‖ And quoth the Prince, ―Here‘s my wall! Here I choose that ye build for me a shrine, a cloister divine.‖

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