This bilingual anthology of the Carmina Burana—guided by a selection criterion that prioritizes choosing, alongside the undisputed central pieces, those that best capture the jubilantly erotic and exultant tone so prevalent in this songbook—fulfills the much-needed mission of making a broad selection of the Goliards' poetry accessible to a general audience. The excellent "Invitation to Reading the Carmina Burana," which opens the volume, aptly describes it as "learned and poignant, playful and cruel, rhetorical and deeply rooted in popular tradition, delicate and violent." Relying on reliable texts, the translation restores the literal tenor of the poems with vigilant precision. These versions, closely aligned with the Latin originals, minimize the difficulty of access for the educated reader, and even in their strict fidelity, they certainly do not disregard the vigor and expressive elegance of the originals. Thus, from its mythical distance, the fabulous and fabled brotherhood of the goliards, sculpted in the living stone of the poem as in a cave of rock crystal, gives us the satirical, pessimistic, hedonistic or sarcastic accent of an era, some people and a temperament that will manifest themselves in admirable poetic pieces whose fortune is often unique in medieval secular lyric poetry: a changing, agitated and contradictory mirror of the human condition, served by a singular art.