The Fall of King Arthur of Britain in Giovanni Boccaccio’s On the Downfall of the Famous

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Giovanni Boccaccio uses the tale of the rise and fall of King Arthur to teach the fickleness of fortune and the peril of pridefulness. Christopher Berard and Morris Tichenor provide a new translation of this once influential but now overlooked medieval retelling of Arthur’s downfall.

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