The Romuleon was a Latin work describing the history of Rome, compiled by Benvenuto da Imola in the mid-fourteenth century from a number of earlier texts.
It was later translated into French by two separate writers:
- The Romuléon of Jean Miélot, made in 1460 for Philip the Good.[1]
- The Romuléon of Sébastien Mamerot, made in 1466 for Louis de Laval, seigneur de Châtillon.
A second Latin version was produced by Adamo Montaldo in the 1490s.[2]
Mamerot's translation was published in a modern edition in 2000.[3]
References
edit- ^ McKendrick, Scot (1994). "The Romuléon and the Manuscripts of Edward IV". In Nicholas Rogers (ed.). England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A. pp. 149–69. ISBN 1871615674.
- ^ "biography of Montaldo". Treccani.it. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
- ^ Frederic Duval, ed. (2000). Le Romuleon en François. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A. pp. xi–lviii. ISBN 2600004173.