For other copyings from B. it may be enough to mention Lydgate's 'Falls of Princes' and the 'Mirror for Magistrates' (1559) based on the 'De Casibus Illustrium Virorum' of the Italian. =BODIN, JEAN.= _b._ 1530, _d._ 1596. =French representative and political writer.= THE SIX BOOKES OF A COMMONWEALE, OUT OF THE FRENCH AND LATINE COPIES. Done into English by Richard Knolles, 1606. This work was once read at our universities. =BOETHIUS.= _b._ 470, _d._ 525. =Roman philosopher and statesman.= THE BOKE OF CONSOLACION OF PHILOSOPHIE. _Tr._ by Geoffrey Chaucer. [1490]. Printed by Caxton. [This work was first translated by King Alfred into Anglo-Saxon.] 'Boethius stood to the Dark Ages for the exemplar of the philosopher. His place in mediaeval reading was very high, and may be gauged from the fact that in England Alfred the Great translated his "Consolations" into Anglo-Saxon. To Chaucer, as to all the mediaeval world, "Boece" was part of the staple library'. =BOIARDO, MATTIO MARIA.= _b._ 1434, _d._ 1494. =Italian poet.= ORLANDO INNAMORATO. [Charlemagne Romances]. The three first Bookes done into English Heroical Verse (1480). _Tr._ by R(obert) T(ofte). 1598. Milton was influenced by B. in his 'Paradise Regained'. 'Orlando Innamorato' was left unfinished by B., and was afterwards finished by Ariosto under the title of 'Orlando Furioso'. =BOILEAU= (_or_, =BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX=) =NICOLAS= _b._ 1636, _d._ 1711. =French poet and satirist.= THE ART OF POETRY (1674). [In verse.] _Tr._ 1683. A DISCOURSE OF SATIRES ARRAIGNING PERSONS BY NAME. _Tr._ 1730. LUTRIN. A mock heroic poem. _Tr._ by N. O. 1682. POSTHUMOUS WORKS. _Tr._ 1713. A SATIRE [Translation of the Eighth Satire of B. on man]. 1801. SATIRES. _Tr._ 1808. THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR BOILEAU MADE ENGLISH BY SEVERAL HANDS. To which is prefixed his life by Mr. Des Maizeaux. (_Tr._ by J. Ozell) and some account of this translation by N. Rowe. 1712-13. Roscommon's 'Essay on Translated Verse' is derived from Boileau's French 'Art de Poetique'. One of the 'correct' school. Pope and Addison were largely influenced by B. The former's 'Essay on Criticism' is inspired by him. Boileau himself was influenced by the 'De Arte Poetica' of Horace. =BONNOT DE CONDILLAC (ÉTIENNE).= _See_ =Condillac.= =BOOK OF THE DEAD. (PER-EM-HRU.)= 'A collection of prayers and exorcisms composed at various times for the benefit of the pilgrim-soul in his journeys through Amente (the Egyptian Hades)'. _See_ Birch, Dr. Egypt's Place in Universal History. Vol. v. 1867. [Based on Lepsius' imperfect Turin Text. 1842.] _See also Article_ in Budge, E. A. Wallis. Dwellers on the Nile (chapter 9) 1885. This work has been printed in full from MSS. in the British Museum. _Ed_. by E. A. W. Budge, with facsimiles _trs_. by Budge.