Foucon de Candie
Foucon de Candie (also spelled Fouque, Foulque or Folque)[1] is an Old French epic poem of the late 12th or early 13th century.[2] It is a chanson de geste belonging to the cycle of Guillaume d'Orange.[3] It tells the fictional story of how Charlemagne's nephew Foucon acquired by marriage the Saracen city of Candie.[4]
Nineteen manuscript copies of Foucon have been identified.[1] A Franco-Italian translation also exists.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Herbert le Duc de Dammartin at ARLIMA, retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ^ Gambino 2018, p. 820: "databile all'ultimo ventennio del XII secolo [the last two decades of the twelfth century]". Ailes, Atkin & Bennett 2022, p. 166: "probably from the very end of the twelfth century or possibly from the very first years of the thirteenth".
- ^ Ailes, Atkin & Bennett 2022, p. 159.
- ^ a b Gambino 2018, p. 820.
Bibliography
[edit]- Ailes, Marianne; Atkin, Tamara; Bennett, Philip E. (2022). "A Fragment of a Lost Chanson de geste". Florilegium. 35: 158–179.
- Gambino, Francesca (2018). "La nave di Folco: Due lasse inedite del Foucon de Candie franco-italiano". Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. 134 (3): 820–844.
- Hoggan, D. G. (1957). "The Version of Aliscans Known to the Author of Foucon de Candie". Medium Aevum. 26 (2): 74–89.
- Tarbé, Prosper, ed. (1860). Le roman de Foulque de Candie par Herbert Leduc, de Dammartin. Reims.
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