''La Tavola Ritonda'' (''The Round Table'') is a 15th-century Italian

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written in the medieval Tuscan language. It is preserved in a 1446 manuscript at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in

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(''Codex Palatinus 556''). It was translated into English as ''Tristan and the Round Table'' by Anne Shaver in 1983.''Tristan and the Round Table. A Translation of the Tavola Ritonda'', trans. & introd. & notes by Anne Shaver, Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York in Binghamton, N.Y., 1983

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