The ''Romuleon'' was a Latin work describing the history of Rome, compiled by
Benvenuto da Imola
Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, or simply and perhaps more accurately Benvenuto da Imola ( la, Benevenutus Imolensis; 1330 – 1388), was an Italian scholar and historian, a lecturer at Bologna. He is now best known for his commentary on Dante's ' ...
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 Jean Miélot, also Jehan, (born Gueschard, Picardy, died 1472) was an author, translator, manuscript illuminator, scribe and priest, who served as secretary to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy from 1449 to Philip's death in 1467, and then to hi ...
, made in 1460 for
Philip the Good
Philip III (french: Philippe le Bon; nl, Filips de Goede; 31 July 1396 – 15 June 1467) was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonge ...
.
* The ''
Romuléon'' of
Sébastien Mamerot, made in 1466 for
Louis de Laval, seigneur de Châtillon.
A second Latin version was produced by
Adamo Montaldo
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Given name
* Adamo Abate (c. 990 – 1060–1070), Italian medieval Benedictine abbot and saint, a promoter of the unification of the Southern populatio ...
in the 1490s.
Mamerot's translation was published in a modern edition in 2000.
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Medieval historical texts in Latin