Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe volume 1
Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe volume 1
J C L Simonde De Jean Charles Lonard Simonde Sismondi
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The history of that monarch, the most brilliant of all during the middle ages, excited the astonislmient and ad- miration of subsequent times. His long reign, his prodigious activity, his splendid victories, his wars with the Saracens, the Saxons, and the Lombards, his influence in Germany, Italy, and Spain, and the re-establishment of tlie empire of the West, rendered his name popular throughout Europe, long after the achievements, by Avhich lie had signalized him- self, were forgotten. He was... a brilliant star in that dark firmament ; the true hero of chivalry, to whom a thousand fantastic adventures miglit be ascribed. It is difficult to lix tlie precise period of these fables. The most ancient monument of tlie marvellous liistoiy of Cliarle- magne, is the pseudonymous Chronicle of Turpin, or Tilpin, Archbishop of Kheims. It is universally admitted, that the * I have merely looked at the Spanish Amadis. Printed at Seville, in 1547, in folio, and the French Amadis, translated by Nicholas de Iler- beray from the Spanish, folio, 1540.
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