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- PublicationOpen AccessLos destinatarios del "Rommans de la dame a la licorne et du biau chevalier"(2015-12-03) García Fernández, Manuel AngelThe Rommans de la Dame á la Licorne et du Biau du Chevalier is an anonymous account of the mid-fourteenth century consists of some 8500 octosyllabic courteous overloaded adventure novels inspired by the love of the Arthurian cycle. The two protagonists of fiction of the poem seem to have had two for living: Blanca de Navarra, the Lady and the Unicorn, and John the Good, the handsome knight. The dedication as a composite shield that appears on folio 14 of manuscript only refers to the matrimonial alliance of these families. The wedding never took place because the promised eventually married the father, but the manuscript survived as the only witness to this curious episode happened at the French court. The story, deeply rooted in the events of the time, is one of the last verse of courtly román mold characteristic of the mentality of the era that craves the glorious deeds of a glorious era that moves away in time.