1674 HISTORY OF KNIGHT PHILIP DE COMMINES-TRANS' BY THOMAS DANETT-LEATHER BOUND
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This book is "The History of Philip de Commines (Knight)", and it was printed in 1674. Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or "Philippe de Comines", Latin Philippus Cominaeus ; 1447 – 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France . He has been called "the first truly modern writer" ( Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" ( Oxford Companion to English Literature ). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time. Commines was born at Renescure (in what was then the county of Flanders ), to an outwardly wealthy family. His parents were Colard van den Clyte (or de La Clyte ) and Marguerite d'Armuyden. [1 ] In addition to being seigneur of Renescure, Watten and Saint-Venant, Clyte became bailiff of Flanders for the Duke of Burgundy in 1436, [2 ] and had been taken prisoner at the Battle of Agincourt .[ 3] Philippe took his surname from a seigneurie on the Lys which had belonged to the family of his paternal grandmother, Jeanne de Waziers. [1 ][ 4] His paternal grandfather, also named Colard van den Clyte (d. 1404), had been governor first of Cassel and then of Lille .[ 5] However, the death of Commines' father in
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