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King Arthur: see Arthurian legend Arthurian legend, the mass of legend, popular in medieval lore, concerning King Arthur of Britain and his knights.
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In the same letter, he dismisses Arthurian romance because "it is involved in, and explicitly contains the Christian religion" (Silmarillion xii). Nonetheless, since Lodovico is renowned primarily for his patronage of Mantegna and Alberti's all'antica painting and architecture in the 1460s and 70s, he is seen by scholars as the stereotype of the "humanist patron" who, given a classical education by Vittorino, would never have commissioned a chivalric subject -- notwithstanding his documented perusal of an Arthurian romance in 1468 at the age of 54. While details may be borrowed anywhere, or invented, the structure of the novels remains faithful to the school-story tradition, and in its main lines the setting of the novels is firmly ensconced in a very specific source of medieval motifs that is Arthurian romance, or, very occasionally, Arthurian romance revisited by twentieth-century writers. |
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