Les livres du gouvernement des roys et des princes, Seated prince instructing his queen, two children, and a servant holding a rod, This early fourteenth century English manuscript is an example of Henri de Gauchy’s French translation of De regimine principum. Giles of Rome first composed the text in Latin for Philip of the Fair around 1277, and it was soon translated into several vernacular languages

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