Il Fiore and Detto d'Amore are two linked Italian poems that retell, in condensed form, the medieval French Romance of the Rose. They follow a lover who seeks to win a rosebud, helped and hindered by allegorical figures such as Fair Welcome, Jealousy and False Seeming. The tone is lively and often satirical, with sharp comment on love, hypocrisy and the clergy. Scholars have long debated whether Dante wrote them, and many attribute them to him only tentatively. They are read as works of a young poet learning his craft, and they show a very different side from his later, solemn writing.