A TREATISE OF THE INTEREST OF THE PRINCES AND STATES OF CHRISTENDOME.... _Tr._ H. H[unt], 1641.
=ROLAND, SONG OF.= _Tr._ by J. O'Hagan, 1880.
A hero celebrated in romances of chivalry, was supposed to have been a nephew of Charlemagne. He was killed at the Battle of Roncesvalles, 778.
THE SONG OF ROLAND, AS CHANTED BEFORE THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS.... _Tr._ Mrs. Marsh, 1854.
=ROLANDSLIED.= 12th century. =German poem.=
ROLAND: THE HISTORIE OF ORLANDO FURIOSO ONE OF THE TWELUE PIERES OF FRANCE, as it was plaid.... In prose and verse, by R. Greene, 1594.
=ROLLIN, CHARLES.= _b._ 1661, _d._ 1741. =French historian.=
HISTORY OF ROME (1738). 16 v. _Tr._ 1739.
ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS.... (1730-38). 12 v. _Tr._ 1734-38.
NEW THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION. _Tr._ 1735.
HISTORY OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF THE ANTIENTS. _Tr._ 1734.
METHOD OF TEACHING AND STUDYING THE BELLES LETTRES. 4 v. 1734. _Tr._ 1740.
=ROMANCE OF THE ROSE.= By Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung.
THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE. _Ed._ by Dr. Max Kaluza. [From the Glasgow MS. Published by the _Chaucer Soc._ The first 1704 lines are probably Chaucer's.] 1890.
[This was translated by Chaucer and some of his predecessors, and the MS. of part of it is in existence.]
Chaucer and Gower borrowed freely from the 'Roman de la Rose'. This romance was familiar in both France and England before Chaucer's time. Wace and Benoît de Sainte-More written by Anglo-Normans.
It was the reading of this work that influenced the first efforts of Chaucer. During the epoch which is called the Chaucerian, authors known and nameless used the stock of mediaeval France as freely and as monotonously as the French themselves.
=RONSARD, PIERRE DE.= _b._ 1524, _d._ 1585. =Eminent French poet.=
Some translations from Ronsard will be found in 'Ronsard and La Pléiade', by G. Wyndham, 1906.
Ronsard and Du Bellay are the two most important names of the 'Pléiade'. The followers of R., through the Italian school introduced the 'classical' style of verse into England. 'The English poets also read Du Bellay, who finally established the sonnet and at the same time served as a pattern for English writers. One writer of the Ronsardist School, Du Bartas, was a writer of real religious conviction, and his "Semaine" or "Week of Creation", translated by Sylvester, gained no small currency in England'.