The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... century Neoplatonic revival of learning in France. He is best known for his two Latin allegories, De planctu Naturae (The Complaint of Nature) and Anticlaudianus. In sixteenth-century England, he was also reputed to have written ...
... century Neoplatonic revival of learning in France. He is best known for his two Latin allegories, De planctu Naturae (The Complaint of Nature) and Anticlaudianus. In sixteenth-century England, he was also reputed to have written ...
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... century Harvard students copied portions of Spenser's poems, and eighteenth-century Yale students were familiar enough with them for John Trumbull to have made Epithalamion the basis for a ribald parody in 1769. Late in the century, the ...
... century Harvard students copied portions of Spenser's poems, and eighteenth-century Yale students were familiar enough with them for John Trumbull to have made Epithalamion the basis for a ribald parody in 1769. Late in the century, the ...
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... century manuscript of the Greek Anthology. He published these Odae with his own Latin translations of 31 of them (Paris 1554, rpt 1556), and again in his Carminum poetarum novem...fragmenta along with a complete Latin translation and ...
... century manuscript of the Greek Anthology. He published these Odae with his own Latin translations of 31 of them (Paris 1554, rpt 1556), and again in his Carminum poetarum novem...fragmenta along with a complete Latin translation and ...
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... did occur in the houses of the gentry, extensively remodeled or built new in great numbers during the sixteenth century. Although Henry VII and Henry VIII commissioned important building projects, during the rest of the century royal.
... did occur in the houses of the gentry, extensively remodeled or built new in great numbers during the sixteenth century. Although Henry VII and Henry VIII commissioned important building projects, during the rest of the century royal.
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... century and after the reforms of Lefevre d'Etaples in 1492 and Peter Ramus in 1543, and his scientific writings were largely discredited by the attacks of Bruno and Bacon and the rise of experimental science in the seventeenth century ...
... century and after the reforms of Lefevre d'Etaples in 1492 and Peter Ramus in 1543, and his scientific writings were largely discredited by the attacks of Bruno and Bacon and the rise of experimental science in the seventeenth century ...
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