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Giovanni Codagnello, a notary from Piacenza (c.1154–c.1234), wrote inhisLiber rerum gestarum(1219–1222) a very personal re-elaboration of the defeatat Roncevaux, which he entitledGesta Carli Francorum regis. Codagnello’s ac-count is one of the oldest witnesses to the circulation in Italy of the legend ofRoncevaux, but it has so far escaped the notice of scholars who have studied theRolandtradition in Italy. This article examines which version of the legend Coda-gnello knew. According to the author, he was familiar with a rhymed redaction oftheChanson de Roland. If this is the case, then it means that an exemplar of theRoland riméwas already circulating in northern Italy at the beginning of the thir-teenth century.
