Nicola of Verona wrote the Prise de Pampelune as a sequel to the Entrée d’Espagne for his patron at the Este court, Niccolò, in 1343. The text, comprising some 6117 lines, continues picks up where the Entrée left off, after Charlemagne has returned from Roncevaux, and follows his campaign in Spain with the Pavian king Disiderius against the pagan king Malzerigi.
Manuscript
Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Fr. V (=250)
Edition
Niccolò da Verona. Opere. Pharsale. Continuazione dell’Entrée d’Espagne. Passion. Ed. Franca Di Ninni. Medioevo Veneto. Venice: Marsilio, 1992.
Secondary Literature
Bédier, Joseph. La “Prise de Pampelune” et la route de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle,” Romanische Forschungen 23 (1907), 805-817
Vidossi, Giuseppe. Nicolò da Verona. Da “La Prisa di Pampelona”, in Le Origini. Testi latini, italiani, provenzali e franco-italiani, a cura di Antonio Viscardi, Bruno e Tilde Nardi, Giuseppe Vidossi, Felice Arese, Milano / Napoli, Riccardo Ricciardi, 1956, 1186-99.