Note 471 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.

The genuineness of the Ligurinus, which had long been suspected of being an imposture, was established after 1870 by two scholars working simultaneously and independently, Pannenborg and Gaston Paris. Pannenborg, who at first thought that the author of this poem was an Italian, was subsequently converted to the opinion that he was a German by the arguments of Paris. In 1883 Pannenborg definitely established the thesis that the Ligurinus was the work of Gunther of Pairis. See Pannenborg, Über den Ligurinus, 1871; the same, Magister Guntherus, 1873; the same, Der Verfasser, 1884; Gaston Paris, Dissertation critique, 1872; Vulpinus, Der Ligurinus, 1889 (under Gunther of Pairis in the Bibliography), introduction.