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takcn part in dccds of armsy and who were well able to recount them. I sought out heralds ofgood reputc, to check and rerify the stories I had heard. In this way I have collected the materiał for this noble history; and as long as with God's grace I shall live> I will go on with it, for the morę I work at it, the morę satisfaction and pleasure it gir es me. IAke the gallant knight, in lorę with the pursuit of Ar ms, by persererance and attention perfects his skill in it, thus by labouring and working on this subject I acąuiregreater ability and delight. "
He speaks there for morę than himself alone. He was a poet, too, and wrote much other prose as well as this truły vast Chronicles. He is nowadays considered to be totally unreliable as a historian (someone wrote recently that he was the first historical novelist) and much of his
Figurę 110. (A) A carving on a roof-boss in the nave vault of Exeter Cathedral: St. Peter carrying a well-rcpresent-ed sword of Type XVI. (B) A sword, a XVI, shown on a wall-painting by Lippo Memmi, at San Gemigniano. (Painted in 1317.) (C) Another, a XVIA, from the same wali painting. (D) A XVIA, c. 1320, once in the collection of M. Charles Boissonas, in Switzerland. (illustration by the author)
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