The multiple sources of inspiration for Ovide moralisé

This article deals with the possible sources of inspiration for Ovide moralisé. When the author undertook a translation of Ovid’s poem as a whole and then moralized each fable, he borrowed particular verses, motifs, and ideas from earlier works. We will see what his version of the fable of Narcissus owes to the Lai de Narcisse as well as to the two allegorical commentaries developed by Arnoul d’Orléans and John of Garland.