![]() ![]() But Nicolette escapes, hears Aucassin lamenting in his cell, and comforts him with sweet words. Aucassin is imprisoned by his father to prevent him from going after his beloved Nicolette. Accordingly, his father ordered the Viscount to send Nicolette away, but instead the Viscount locked her in a tower of his palace. It is the unique example of a chantefable, literally, a "sung story", a combination of prose and verse (similar to a prosimetrum). The story recounts the tale of Aucassin, son of Count Garin of Beaucaire, who so loved Nicolette, a Saracen maiden, who had been sold to the Viscount of Beaucaire, baptized and adopted by him, that he had forsaken knighthood and chivalry and even refused to defend his father's territories from enemies. The book : Beautifully bound edition of Aucassin et Nicolette (12th or 13th century) the anonymous medieval French fictional story. Illustrations : Including a nice frontis and some full page illustrations. ![]() Harrap & Co., no date (circa 1917).īinding : Attractive and very good, near fine full red morocco binding with significant gilt tooling to spine and boards by RIVIERE & Son (signed on bottom of the back of the first endpaper) (hinges fine) under a protective mylar cover.Ĭontent : Very good, near fine, content (bright, clean and tight - as shown). Title : Aucassin and Nicolete, Done from the Old French by Michael West. ![]()
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