Life of Alexander the great : and the Romance of Troas[1400-1499]itaManuscript volume, on paper, containing two secular vernacular romances attributed in the dedication to a single unidentified author. The first, I Nobili Fatti di Alessandro Magno, is an Italian translation of the Latin version of the life of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes. The second text is The Romance of Troas. Troas, a descendant of Hector, is the king of Thessaly; his son Troiano journeys to Britain and joins the army of King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, who is leading an army of Britons, Trojans and Romans against the GreeksIn Italian.Ownership inscription and drawing of arms of "Alessandro dale Carte" on rear flyleaf.Bookplate of Sir Thomas Phillipps on front pastedown; Phillipps MS number inscribed on recto of f1.Layout: single columns of variable length.Script: Italian cursive bookhand.Decoration: Rubricated (ff. 1-91 only).Binding: nineteenth-century half-calf, rebacked.