Wine in Hell is not affordable

The poems of François Villon (1431/32 – after 1463) have existed for over five hundred years. Little is known for certain about the life and fate of the poet. Villon became an orphan at an early age and studied at the University of Paris. Court documents confirm that he killed a man in a fight and participated in a robbery. However, his unique poetic gift — the gift of a jester, playing with the established literary forms of the Middle Ages, breaking them down, thus arriving at a kind of "new sincerity" — secured this sinful wanderer enduring posthumous fame. Time and again, poets translate his famous lines into different languages, and the work of François Villon is studied by scholars and philosophers…