Abstract
This article examines the processes underlying the translation of Ovid by the author of the Old French Piramus et Tisbé poem (ca. 1150). In particular, I show through a close examination of the poem that Piramus et Tisbé is a carefully and artfully crafted piece, whose author explored and applied the rhetorico-poetic techniques he had learned in school to shed light upon his ancient source. As such, the Old French Piramus et Tisbé constitutes not only a translation, but also a sort of poetic commentary (or gloss) on Ovid, and provides us with a valuable insight into the process of vernacular reading and rewriting that Marie de France, in the Prologue to the Lais (ca. 1165), will refer to as "gloser la lettre."
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