Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut, a man famous for both his poetry and his musical compositions, wrote his Prise d¿Alexandrie (or Capture of Alexandria) just a few years after the death of his hero, King Peter I of Cyprus (1359-69). It is a verse history of Peter¿s reign, and was Machaut¿s last major literary work. Peter¿s ancestors had ruled the island of Cyp