Le Livre du Voir dit
by Guillaume de Machaut
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Guillaume de Machaut, a man famous for both his poetry and his musical compositions, wrote his Prise d'Alexandrie (or Capture of Alexandria) just a few years after the death of his hero, King Peter I of Cyprus (1359-69). It is a verse history of Peter's reign, and was Machaut's last major literary work. Peter's ancestors had ruled the island of Cyprus since the 1190s, and in 1365 Peter gained notoriety throughout western Europe as leader of a crusading expedition which captured the Egyptian show more port of Alexandria. His forces, however, were unable to retain control, and Peter was left with a war against the Egyptian sultan. It was his increasingly desperate measures to continue the struggle and carry opinion with him that resulted in his murder in 1369. Machaut relied on information relayed by French participants in Peter's wars, but although he was not an eyewitness of these events, his account is independent of other narratives of the reign which were written in Cyprus apparently under the auspices of the king's heirs. show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 841.1 — Literature & rhetoric French & related literatures French poetry Early French 842–1400
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- PQ1483 .G5 .A7313 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Old French literature To 1350/1400
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