Peter Idley's Instructions to his son
By: edited, with introd. and notes by Charlotte D'Evelyn.
Contributors: Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent.; Mannyng, Robert, fl. 1288-1338.; Lydgate, John, 1370-1451?; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Publisher: Kraus Reprint Co.
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Millwood, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Other titles: Instructions to his son.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint of the 1935 ed. published by the Modern Language Association of America, New York, which was issued as no. 6 of the Modern Language Association of America Monograph series.
A fifteenth century didactic poem in two books, the first of which is based on two Latin treatises of Albertano da Brescia, Liber consolationis and Liber de amore Dei and the second on R. Mannyng's Handlyng synne and Lydgates's Fall of princes, a paraphrase of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium.