Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Gualteri Mapes De Nugis Curialium Distinctiones Quinque
Tre work which is now for the first time printed is the most authentic of all those which have been attributed to Walter Mapes, and certainly the most important. It is the book in which this remarkable man seems to have amused himself with putting down his own sentiments on the passing events of the day, along with the popular gossip of the courtiers with whom he mixed. It con tains almost the only authentic details we have relating to the life of its author, besides a great mass of historical anecdotes which are entirely new to us. In fact, the whole book is one mass of contemporary anecdote, romance, and popular legend, interesting equally by its curiosity and by its novelty.
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