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Elizabeth I : Translations, 1592-1598
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- I, Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elisabeth I--England, Königin.
- Elizabeth I--Queen of England, -- 1533-1603--Knowledge and learning.
- Elizabeth I--Queen of England, -- 1533-1603--Literary art.
- Classical literature--Translations--16th century--England--Translations into English.
- Classical literature.
- Classical literature--History and criticism.
- Kings' and rulers' writings, English--History.
- Kings' and rulers' writings, English.
- Women and literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Elisabeth I--England, Königin.
- Elizabeth I--Queen of England, -- 1533-1603--Knowledge and learning.
- Elizabeth I--Queen of England, -- 1533-1603--Literary art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (508 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- England's Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and Oxford. But the supreme proof of her mastery of other tongues is the sizable body of translations she made over the course of her lifetime. This two-volume set is the first complete collection of Elizabeth's translations from and into Latin, French, and Italian. Presenting original and modernized spellings in a facing-p
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544-1589: List of Errata; I. ca. 1592: Cicero's Pro M. Marcello; II. 1593: Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae; III. 1598: Plutarch's De Curiositate (Desiderius Erasmus's Latin Version); IV. 1598: Horace's De Arte Poetica, lines 1-178; Index of Names
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612422379
- 9781282422377
- 1282422375
- 9780226201368
- 0226201368
- OCLC:
- 609850237
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