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that wiped out about half of the
European population recurring repeatedly from the mid fourteenth century. There is a possibility, however, that he was murdered during the invasion of Paris by the Burgundians in 1418, a result of the
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that was dedicated to the duc de Berry and has come with the former royal library to the
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Laurent de
Premierfait: The Translator of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustribus
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Laurent de
Premierfait et Terence, Vestigia. Studi in onore di Giuseppe Billanovich,
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G.S. Purkes attributed this translation to
Laurent in "Laurent de Premierfait",
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Manuscrits des traductions francaises d'œuvres de Boccacce: XVe siècle
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Gontier et Pierre Col et l'Humanisme en France au temps de Charles VI
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Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, January 1979.
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