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Vital d'Audiguier
Vital d'Audiguier (Najac, 1565 - Paris, 1624), was a French poet and writer. He was murdered as the result of a brawl over a gambling debt.
His best known work was a swashbuckling chivalrous novel published anonymously in 1615, entitled "Histoire tragi-comique de notre temps". Though in subsequent editions it is called "Histoire des Amours de Lysandre et de Caliste."
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Sources.
The primary source for the plot of "The Lovers' Progress" was the "Histoire trage-comique de nostre temps, sous les noms de Lysandre et de Caliste," a popular prose romance by Vital d'Audiguier that was first published in 1615 and often reprinted. The first English translation appeared in 1617.
Islip.
The text of "The Lovers' Progress" in the 1647 folio was one of those set into print by Susan Islip — a rare instance of