The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

AMADIS OF GAUL. Tr. R. Southey, 1872. An imitation of the Arthurian romances.

These extravagant chivalric romances, with their even more phantastic descendants dating from thirteenth century, had a great vogue for about 300 years, but were ridiculed out of existence by Cervantes.

'Like the Arthurian and Carlovingian romances, portrays the manners, the religion, and the ideas of love, honour and morality that prevailed when it was written. The "Amadis", says Ticknor, is admitted by general consent to be the best of all the old romances of chivalry'.

AMBROGINI, ANGELO. See Poliziana.

AMIEL, H. F. French Writer.

JOURNAL IN TIME. Tr. Mrs. H. Ward. 2 v. 1885.

AMIS AND AMILOUN. Thirteenth century.

Ed. Weber. METRICAL ROMANCES, vol. 2. 1810.

OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF AMIS AND AMILE. Tr. Wm. Morris, 1894. [Kelmscott Pr.].