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Author Mueller, Janel

Title Elizabeth I
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (505 pages)
Contents Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; I. 1544: Marguerite de Navarre's le Miroir de L'me Pcheresse; II. 1545: Katherine Parr's Prayers or Meditations; III. 1545: John Calvin's Institution de la Religion Chrestienne, Chapter One; IV. 1547: Bernardino Ochino's "Che Cosa Christo"; V. 1563: Elizabeth's Sententiae; VI. Pre- 15581580s: Elizabeth's Book Inscriptions; VII. ca. 1567: Seneca's Epistulae Morales 107; VIII. ca. 1579: Cicero's Epistulae Ad Familiares 2.6; IX. ca. 1589: Choral Ode from Hercules Oetaeus
Appendix 1: Translation Ascribed to Elizabeth of Francesco Petrarch's Trionfo dell'Eternit, lines 190Appendix 2: The Reliability of Nugae Antiquae as a Source for Translations Ascribed to Elizabeth; Index of Names
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-page format, these two volu
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Subject Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Writing skill
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Knowledge and learning
SUBJECT Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 fast
Subject Classical literature -- Translations
Kings' and rulers' writings, English -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
Classical literature
Kings' and rulers' writings, English
Learning and scholarship
Women and literature
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Sources
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Scodel, Joshua
I, Elizabeth
ISBN 9780226201337
0226201333