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The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the 'De regimine principum' of Aegidius Romanus ed. David C. Fowler, Charles F. Briggs, and Paul G. Remley, Garland Medieval Texts 19 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997). xxix + 439 pp. ISBN 0-8153--1454-x. $85.00. This is Volume I of the first edition of the sole surviving manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 233) of John Trevisa's late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century translation of the thirteenth-century De regimine principum of Aegidius Colonna, here entitled by the editors The Governance of Kings and Princes. The Latin work itself was extremely influential in medieval 'advice to princes' writing. Its three...