Un témoignage inédit sur la fortune du De casibus virorum illustrium de Giovanni Boccaccio en France à la fin du Moyen Âge L’Extraict d’aucuns nobles hommes malheureux de Pierre Doriole (circa 1480)

Presentation and edition of the draft of a ­continuation of Giovanni ­Boccaccio’s De casibus virorum illustrium, written by the Chancelor of France Pierre Doriole (c. 1480). This text is an interesting testimony of the reception of this Italian humanist in France at the end of the Middle Ages and of the perception of Fifteenth-Century European history, by one of the leading actors of French politic during the reign of Louis XI.