Guido delle Colonne (in

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. He is the author of a prose narrative of the

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entitled ''

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'' ("History of the destruction of Troy," 1287), that was based on ''De excidio Trojae historia'' written by

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and ''Ephemeridos belli Trojani'' written by

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('' De vulgari eloquentia'' 2.5) named Guido as a poet in the vernacular, and five poems by him in Italian survive.

* Guido delle Colonne, ''Historia destructionis Troiae'', edited by Nathaniel Edward Griffin, Mediaeval Academy of America Publication 26, Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1936. * Benson, C. David, ''The History of Troy in Middle English Literature: Guido delle Colonne's Historia Destructionis Troiae in Medieval England'', Rowman & Littlefield (1980), * Carlesso, Giuliana, “La fortuna della ''Historia destructionis Troiae'' di Guido delle Colonne e un volgarizzamento finora ignoto,” ''Giornale storico della letteratura italiana'' 157 (1980): 230-51. * Chiàntera, Raffaele, ''Guido delle Colonne: Poeta e storico latino del sec. XIII e il problema della lingua della nostra primitiva lirica d'arte'', Napoli: Casa Editrice ‘Federico & Adria' di P. Federico, 1956. * Keller, Wolfram R., ''Selves and Nations: The Troy Story from Sicily to England in the Middle Ages'', Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. * Lumiansky, R. M., “The Story of Troilus and Briseida according to Benoit and Guido,” ''Speculum'' 29.4 (1954): 727-33.

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Guido de Columnis
vs Heinrich Schliemann -- water courses in Aegean prehistory, article online at Luwian Studies (access date: 2 February 2017)

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