Le Testament

Name: Le Testament
Author: François Villon

Author

François Villon

Language

Middle French

Year

1461

Country

France

Genre

Poetry Collection

Le Testament is a collection of poetry composed in 1461 by François Villon. Le Testament, comprising over twenty essentially independent poems in octosyllabic verse, consists of a series of fixed-form poems, namely 16 ballades and three rondeaux, and is recognized as a gem of medieval literature.

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Translations

The Testaments of Francois Villon

tr. John Heron Lepper · Liveright · United States · 1924

The Complete Poems of Francois Villon

tr. John Heron Lepper, John Payne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A. C. Swinburne, Arthur Symons, Ezra Pound · Boni and Liveright · United States · 1924

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