History
The first association between romantic love and Valentine’s Day is in the Parlement of foul (1382) the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400):
Because it was Valentine’s Day,
when each bird came here to pick their partner.
Chaucer wrote this poem in honor of the first anniversary of the compromise between King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia. A treaty was signed on this married on May 2, 1381. They married eight months later, when King was 13 or 14 years and she 14.
In the liturgical calendar, the birthday is May 2 Valentine of Genoa. This St. Valentine was a bishop of Genoa who died around AD 307. Readers incorrectly assumed that Chaucer was referring to February 14 as Valentine’s Day. However, in England in February is not suitable for the birds to mate.
The Parliament of Foule is presented in a fictional context of an ancient tradition, but the fact is that there was no such tradition before Chaucer.
The explanations are speculative in a “ancestral custom sentimental,” which appears as a historical fact, has its origins in the antique dealers in the seventeenth century, especially in Alban Butler, author of Butler’s Lives of Saints (lives of saints, of Butler) and even respectable historians have perpetuated. Most notably, “the idea that the custom of celebrating Valentine’s Day comes from the Roman Lupercalia has been accepted with some criticism and has been repeated in various ways until today.”
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