Les amours de Faustine

A sequence of Latin love poems rendered into French that recount a Roman liaison between the poet and a married woman named Faustine. The verse mixes elegiac lyricism and classical allusion with candid personal feeling, portraying Faustine’s striking beauty, the obstacles of her marriage, and the lovers’ furtive meetings. Short elegies and epigrams shift in tone from ardent admiration to rueful reflection, charting the affair’s intimacy, its moral tensions, and its ultimately brief, bittersweet outcome.