Other Works
Other works of Vincent of Beauvais include De eruditione filiorum nobilium (The education of noble children) and De morali principis institutione (The moral instruction of a prince), which were to have been the fourth and first books of a proposed four-part treatise, the Opus universale de statu principis (Universal work on the status of a prince). He also wrote the Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici (Consolation upon the death of a friend), addressed to Louis upon the death of his son Louis in 1260. It has been suggested that he wrote the Speculum Humanae Salvationis.
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