Romuléon (Miélot)

The Romuléon is a fifteenth-century French text by Jean Miélot, telling the history of Rome from its legendary foundation by Romulus and Remus up to the emperor Constantine.

[1] The Romuléon was translated into French beginning in 1460 by Jean Miélot, an author in the service of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

[2] His Latin source was a work, also called the Romuleon, compiled in Florence between 1361 and 1364, by Benvenuto da Imola.

[3] This source in turn was based on a number of classical texts, including Livy's Ab Urbe Condita and the Lives of Suetonius.

[13] Edward may have become interested in owning a copy of Romuléon as part of a program of imitation of Louis de Gruuthuse, whom he visited in 1470.