Author: Francois Villon

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• Philip Margulies (1)
  • IN: Belle Cora (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tell me where, or in what land is Flora, the lovely Roman, or Archipiades, or Thais, who was her first cousin; or Echo, replying whenever called across river or pool, and whose beauty was more than human...? Where is that brilliant lady Heloise, for whose sake Peter Abelard was castrated and became a monk at Saint-Denis? He suffered that misfortune because of his love for her. And where is that queen who ordered that Buridan be thrown into the Seine in a sack?... where are they, where, O sovereign Virgin?...
    FROM: "The Snows of Yesteryear", (1460), Poem, France
• Truman Capote (1)
  • IN: In Cold Blood (1965) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Frères humains qui après nous vivez, N'ayez les cuers contre nous endurcis, Car, se pitié de nous povres avez, Dieu en aura plus tost de vous mercis.
    FROM: Ballade des pendus, (1489), Poem, France