ABSTRACT
Allegory is a literary genre that thrived from late antiquity through the eighteenth century. During the Middle Ages in particular, a number of important allegories were written, including Prudentius’ Psychomachia, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus and Plaint of Nature, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s Romance of the Rose, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, among others.
