Every now and then a man of irrepressible literary talent, having no vernacular or no public in the vernacular ready to his hand, will write in Latin a book like the De Nugis Curialium,[4] which is good literature though bad Latin.
Lancelot and the later fortunes of the Graal and the Round Table company, to no less a person than the famous Englishman Walter Mapes, or Map, the author of De Nugis Curialium, the reputed author (v.
The general title of it is, 'Policraticus sive de Nugis Curialium, et Vestigiis Philosophorum, libri octo.
Dictionary of National Biography, and the Introduction to Wright's edition of De Nugis Curialium.
Of the probable character of such a work we can gather some idea from Map's undoubted literary remains; De Nugis Curialium offers abundant proof of the writer's taste for popular tales and traditions.
De nugis curialium and the Latin Poems attributed to Map have been edited for the Camden Society by T.
On this point we have the testimony of his one undoubted work, De nugis curialium, which he tells us he composed "by snatches" during his residence at court.
He studied at Paris under Girard la Pucelle, who began to teach in or about 1160, but as he states in his book De nugis curialium that he was at the court of Henry II.
Walter not only has the greatest amount of traditional attribution, but is the undoubted author of De Nugis Curialium.
And the author of De Nugis Curialium, different as it is from the Arthurian story, could have finally divined the latter.
Most of the facts about him are gleaned from his De Nugis Curialium (Of the Trifles of the Courtiers), a miscellany of contemporary notes and anecdotes, throwing much light on the manners and opinions of the Court of Henry II.
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