词条 | Robert de Beaufeu |
释义 |
| name = Robert de Beaufeu | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = probably English | other_names = | known_for = poet | occupation = secular canon }}Robert de Beaufeu (died in or before 1219) (Latinised to de Bello Fago or de Bello Foco, meaning "from a beautiful fireplace") was a secular canon of Salisbury and a minor poet.{{efn|Also Robert de Bello Foco {{sfn|Rigg|2004}} }}[1] LifeEducated at the University of Oxford, he gained, at an early age, a reputation for learning, and became the friend of Gerald of Wales, Walter Map, and other scholars.{{sfn|Thompson|1885|p=36}} He was granted the prebend of Horton, near Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, where he built a hall house, part of which survives in the structure of the present 16th century Horton Court. WorksHe is said have written a work entitled Encomium Topographiæ, after hearing the Topographia Hiberniæ (c.1188) of Gerald of Wales read by the author at a festival at Oxford.{{sfn|Thompson|1885|p=36}}{{efn|His authorship of this piece depends on Gerald of Wales's self-serving story reporting the praise that Robert gave to Gerald's Topographia Hiberniae.{{sfn|Rigg|2004}} }} A poem in praise of ale, {{Lang|la|Versus de commendatione Cervisiæ}}, in a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, bears his name,[2] and has been argued as suggesting ("according to stereotypes established by Alcuin, Reginald of Canterbury, and Henry of Avranches") that he was an Englishman.{{sfn|Rigg|2004}} Notes{{notelist}}1. ^Cassells Latin Dictionary: Focus -i (m), fireplace, hearth, fire of funeral pile 2. ^{{harvnb|Thompson|1885|p=36}} cite: Gg. vi. 42 References
Further reading
6 : Year of birth unknown|Year of death unknown|13th-century deaths|Alumni of the University of Oxford|13th-century English people|Secular canons |
随便看 |
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。