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Résumé :

The Chronicle of the Tocco is generally considered as a “chronicle”. However, this characterization raises many problems, while a structural and thematic analysis shows that the text presents more analogies with the literary genre known as biographie chevaleresque (chivalric biography), a Late Medieval evolution of the chanson de geste which was then widespread in France, which was made possible thanks to the widespread diffusion of French culture in Latin Greece. The so-called Chronicle of the Tocco should therefore better be called the Life of Carlo Tocco. The poem also shows analogies with later works from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries in Greek.