{"title":"Palatino Press","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-regia-carmina-a-facsimile-of-the-complete-manuscript-paperback","title":"The Regia Carmina: A facsimile of the complete manuscript - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA complete illuminated manuscript in 60 full page color plates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Regia Carmina is a poem of praise for Robert of Anjou King of Naples (1278-1343) from the town of Prato in Tuscany. It beseeches the King to protect Prato, to unite Italy under his rule, and to restore the papacy to Rome from Avignon, where it had relocated 30 years earlier. The poem's author, Convenevole da Prato (c.1270-1338) was a writer, ambassador and educator and is well known as the boyhood teacher of Petrarch. 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