Historia destructionis Troiae
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: author: Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Historia destructionis Troiae, by Guido delle Colonne, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 188
Contents
Historia destructionis Troiae is an account of Troy and its destruction in the Trojan War, written in Latin verse. It was originally composed in the 13th century by Sicilian author, Guido delle Colonne. Guido claimed to have written the piece in just 71 days.The poem begins on f. 1r with the Prologue. The first line reads: Ut si cotidie vetera recentibus obruant...The Prologue ends on f. 1v, with ...
Dates:
15th century
Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido delle Colonne, 14th or 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 194/ff. 1r-136r
Contents
Guido delle Colonne was a late thirteenth-century Italian writer, poet and jurist. He wrote works in Latin and also the Italian vernacular, of which several poems survive. His text found in MS 194 is perhaps the most important and well-known of his works. Completed around 1287, it is a prose history on the destruction of the ancient city of Troy. Likely based on an earlier work on the same subject (perhaps the ancient work by Dares Phrygius, or a French work by Benôit de Sainte-Maure),...
Dates:
14th or 15th century