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Vinony files it under Accuracy disputes from November 2020, Fortuna and Goliardic poetry.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Carmina Burana
- Main subject
- destiny
- Depicts
- Wheel of Fortune
- Image
- CarminaBurana wheel.jpg
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- title
- O Fortuna
- publication date
- 1300-00-00
- published in
- Carmina Burana
- series ordinal
- 17
- inception
- 1300-00-00
- language of work or name
- medieval Latin
- form of creative work
- poem
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Encyclopedic overview
"O Fortuna" in the Carmina Burana manuscript (Bavarian State Library; the poem occupies the last six lines on the page, along with the overrun at bottom right.
"O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem which is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written in the early 13th century. It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman mythology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “O Fortuna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.