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Filipe Camuz
A little-known medieval French writer whose name also appears in Portuguese form, he is remembered for a chivalric romance about Olivier of Castile and Artus of Algarve that circulated widely in Europe.
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Le livre de Olivier de Castille et de Artus d'Algarbe
by Filipe Camuz
About the author
Filipe Camuz is the form of the name used by Project Gutenberg for Philippe Camus, a 15th-century French writer. Reliable catalog and reference sources connect him with L'Histoire d'Olivier de Castille et Artus d'Algarbe, a prose romance usually dated somewhere between about 1430 and 1460.
He is also credited with a prose version of Cléomadés, adapting material from the earlier verse romance by Adenet le Roi. Very little biographical information seems to survive, so he is known mainly through the works attributed to him rather than through details of his life.
Because he is such an obscure medieval figure, modern readers usually encounter him through library catalogs, editions, and digitized texts rather than through a full modern biography.