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

FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 2000 Sutton hardcover, Aubrey Burl (The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany). Francois Villon 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. The book describes a riotous and debauched student life in medieval Paris and Villon’s first steps on a life of crime when he was publicly flogged for writing a scurrilous ballad and later involved in a scuffle which ended with his killing a priest. – Amazon