Wine is not affordable in hell

The verses of Francois Viion (1431/32 - after 1463) for more than five hundred years. Little is reliably known about the personality and fate of the poet. Viion was orphaned early, studied at the University of Paris. Judicial documents confirm that he killed a man in a fight and took part in the robbery. But a unique poetic gift - the gift of a mockery playing with established literary forms of the Middle Ages, breaking them, thus coming to a kind of “new sincerity” - provided this sinful tramp with an enduring posthumous glory. Once again and again, poets shift the famous lines into different languages, the work of Francois Viion is studying scientists and philosophers ...

The collection includes all the works of the poet written by him in literary French, and seven out of thirteen ballads in thieves (color) jargon translated by Yu. B. Korneev.
The publication of an art of expert on French literature and the Middle Ages, Doctor of Philological Sciences G.K. Kosikov and the wonderful poet O. E. Mandelstam is complemented