Une contribution italienne au développement de l’épopée en France Ugolino Verino et Giovanni Michele Nagonio

The invasions of the Italian peninsula by Charles VIII and Louis XII of France promoted the dissemination of humanistic culture north of the Alps. Adapting the tropes of classical epic, the poets Ugolino Verino and Giovanni Michele Nagonio rushed to prepare deluxe manuscripts of their verse for the kings in which they recast the royal invaders as the heroic successor of Charlemagne with the hope of diverting their attention from Italian conquest towards a crusade to liberate Jerusalem.