The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature — John Shaqi
The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English LiteratureHarris, William James
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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature
Harris, William James
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=ARETINO, PIETRO.= _b._ 1492, _d._ 1557. =Satirical Italian Writer,
surnamed 'The Scourge of Princes'.=
DIALOGUES, COMEDIES, LETTERS. 1538-57.
SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS. (No translation given).
Imitated largely by Nash, ('The English Aretino',) and the
Elizabethan pamphleteers.
=ARIOSTO, LODOVICO.= _b._ 1474, _d._ 1533. =Italian poet.=
ORLANDO FURIOSO IN ENGLISH HEROICAL VERSE. By J. Harrington. (1516).
[Allegorie of Orlando Furioso,--Life of Ariosto]. 1591.
ORLANDO FURIOSO. _Tr._ by Thos. Carew [1st five books only]. 1594.
SATYRES, IN SEVEN FAMOUS DISCOURSES, shewing the State, (1) of the
Court, and Courtiers. (2) Of Libertie, and the Clergie in generall.
(3) Of the Romance Clergie. (4) Of Marriage. (5) Of Soldiers,
Musitians, and Lovers. (6) Of Schoolmasters and Scholes. (7) Of
Honour, and the Happiest Life. _Tr._ In English by Gervase Markham
[or rather by R. T.(ofte)]. 1608.
THE SUPPOSES (I Suppositi): A comedie written in the Italian Tongue
by A. and Englisshed by G. Gascoygne. In. ('A Hundreth Sundrie
Flowers, etc.') [1572].
TWO TALES. _Tr._ by R[obert] T[ofte]. 1597.
'Ariosto', says Hallam, 'has been, after Homer, the favourite
poet of Europe.'
A. based his epics on the writings of Virgil. He was Spenser's
favourite poet, who suggested the style and form used in the
'Faerie Queene'.
'Orlando Furioso' is closely imitated from Boiardo's 'Orlando
Innamorato.' His 'Satyres' are written in the Horatian manner.
=ARISTOPHANES=, _b._ 448, _d._ 380 B.C. =The most famous comic poet
of Greece.=
THE BIRDS OF A. From the Text of Dindorf. With notes by H. P.
Cookesley, 1834.
THE CLOUDS: a comedy (423) _Tr._ by Mr. Theobald, 1715.
COMEDIES (5). _Tr._ by T. Mitchell, 1820-3.
THE FROGS: a comedy. _Tr._ by C. Dunster, [1780].
A PLEASANT COMEDY ENTITLED HEY FOR HONESTY, DOWN WITH KNAVERY. Tr. by
Thos. Randorph, 1651.
THE WORLD'S IDOL; or, PLUTUS THE GOD OF WEALTH. From the Greek by H.
H. B. 1659.
The comedies of A. bear a close resemblance to the work of our
comic playwriters to-day.
=ARISTOTLE=, _b._ 384, _d._ 322 B.C. =Greek philosopher.=
ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC ... MADE ENGLISH ... [with a preface subscribed
H. C.] In four books. 1656.
THE ART OF LOGIC.... _Tr._ from the Latin of the Dialectica of P. de
La Ramée, 1626.
THE ART OF POETRY. With Dacier's notes. 1705.
DE ANIMA. The History of Animals and Treatise on Physiognomy. _Tr._
1809.
_The Same._ With notes and _tr._ by E. Wallace, 1882.
ARISTOTLE ON THE ATHENIAN CONSTITUTION. _Tr._ F. G. Kenyon, 1891.
THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE, THAT IS TO SAYE, PRECEPTS OF GOOD
BEHAVIOURE, AND PERFIGHTE HONESTIE. _Tr._ [by J. Wilkinson]. 1547.
TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT. _Tr._ by W. Ellis, 1776.
POLITIQUES, translated out of Greek into French, with Expositions, by
Loys le Roy, called Regius. _Tr._ out of French into English, 1597.
THE PROBLEMS OF ARISTOTLE, WITH OTHER PHILOSOPHERS AND PHISITIONS....
1597.
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