Danse Macabre: François Villon, Poetry & Murder in Medieval France by Aubrey Burl

Danse Macabre: François Villon, Poetry & Murder in Medieval France

Aubrey Burl

242 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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Francois Villon (1431-?1465) is one of the great enigmas of French medieval history: a lyric poet of beauty and depth, he was also a murderer, pimp, thief and denizen of the underworld of 15th-century Paris. This study places Villon in the context...

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