Original title: خسرو و شیرین

Author: Nezami Ganjavi

Preface: Daniela Meneghini

Original language: Persian

Translator: Daniela Meneghini

Publisher: Ariele

Year of publication: 2017

Number of pages: 321

ISBN: 978889776351

Khosrow and Sirin is the most famous and important love poem in classical Persian literature. Composed or Ganja, in the north-western territories of the Seljuk empire, between 1176 and 1191 by the great poet Nezami (l 14 1-1 209), this extraordinary work for elegance of form and refinement of contents, tells the legendary story of love d, Khosrow (Chosroes Il, the last great ruler of the Sassanid dynasty) and of Sirln, an Armenian princess of extraordinary beauty and emblematic moral stature. Set in pre-Islamic Persia, the story of young lovers intertwines with historical events, with limits imposed by the duties of the sovereign, with the conditions of the political and those of human frailty, tracing a path in which Love becomes a means of maturation. and of growth towards a higher and more integral form of humanity. mysticism of the following centuries. The tension between passion and pain, between desire and duty, between expectation and disappointment, are described by Nezami with a sensitivity and an art that make this work a text that goes beyond the limits of his time. Beyond the plot, whose structure is masterfully delineated with the passing of the chapters, the text is interpolated and concluded by passages of wisdom inspiration that allow us a direct look at the mentality, the vision of the world and the meaning of the history of a scholar of medieval Persia.