Note 464 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.

The Florentine Brunetto Latino died in 1295. He composed his great Livre du trésor in French during a period of exile in France between 1260 and 1266 (C. V. Langlois, op. cit., p. 328). This work met with a wide success. It is divided into three parts, the first of which is devoted to geography and cosmography. Much of the material here was derived ultimately from Solinus. The Trésor was edited by P. Chabaille in 1863, but a definitive critical edition has not yet appeared. For a criticism of Chabaille’s edition and for a summary of the contents of the first part, see C. V. Langlois, op. cit., pp. 333–391.