For seven centuries, readers have been drawn to the blazing heart of Richard Rolle, the fourteenth-century English hermit whose Incendium Amoris — The Fire of Love — remains one of the most passionate and personal accounts of the soul's longing for God ever written. Composed in the 1340s, this medieval classic describes Rolle's own experience of divine love as a physical warmth, an inward melody, and an overwhelming sweetness: the three gifts of fervor, canor, and dulcor that became the hallmark of his spirituality. Written for solitaries and seekers alike, it is at once a fiery testimony and a gentle guide to the contemplative life. This faithful modern-English edition from The Sacred Wisdom Library renders Rolle's Latin text in clear, inviting prose, preserving the meaning and spirit of the original while making it fully accessible to today's readers. Here is a voice that speaks across the centuries — a solitary man who found, in the silence of the Yorkshire countryside, a love that set his heart ablaze. Part of The Sacred Wisdom Library.