Romuleon Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: McKendrick, Scot . The Romuléon and the Manuscripts of Edward IV . England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium . Nicholas Rogers . Harlaxton Medieval Studies . Librairie Droz S. A . Geneva . 1994 . 1871615674 . 149-69.
2. Web site: biography of Montaldo . Treccani.it . 2012-09-20.
3. Book: Le Romuleon en François . Frederic Duval . Librairie Droz S. A . Geneva . 2000 . 2600004173 . xi-lviii.