John Lydgate's Fall of Princes

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:The_Fall_of_Princes
The Fall of Princes and Other Poems
gptkbp:author gptkb:John_Lydgate
gptkbp:basedOn Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium
gptkbp:commissionedBy Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:England
gptkbp:dateWritten c. 1431-1438
gptkbp:form verse
gptkbp:genre de casibus tragedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John Lydgate's Fall of Princes
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:The_Mirror_for_Magistrates
gptkbp:influencedBy Laurent de Premierfait's French translation of Boccaccio
gptkbp:language gptkb:Middle_English
gptkbp:length over 36,000 lines
gptkbp:notableFor British Library Harley MS 1766
British Library Harley MS 4197
gptkbp:notablePrintedEdition John Wayland, 1554
gptkbp:numberOfBooks nine
gptkbp:subject the downfall of famous people
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:De_Casibus_Virorum_Illustrium
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8