Historia destructionis Troiae
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Historia destructionis Troiae ("History of the destruction of Troy") or Historia Troiana is a Latin prose narrative written by Guido delle Colonne, a Sicilian author, in the early 13th century. Its main source was the Old French verse romance by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Roman de Troie.
In later centuries several translations of Guido's work appeared, in Catalan, English, French, Polish, German and Italian:
- Històries troianes, translated to Catalan by Jaume Conesa, in 1367
- John Lydgate, Troy Book, written in English around 1412-1420
- The gest hystoriale of the destruction of Troy, in English
- Jacques Milet, La destruction de la Troye, in French
- Historia (...) o zburzeniu a zniszczeniu onego sławnego a znamienitego miastha y państwa trojańskiego, in Polish, published at Kraków, 1563
- Historische, warhaffte und eigentliche Beschreibung von der alten Statt Troia, in German, published at Basle, 1599
- La storia della guerra di Troia, in Italian, published at Naples, 1665