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Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639 : a tribute. With scenes from The Life of An Ambassador & an anthology of his prose / edited by Peter Spring.
Naples : The Stella Press, 2023.
xvi, 141 p. : frontis. (col.) ; 27 cm.
Printed in red and black.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- selected bibliography -- Anthony Wood's life of Henry Wotton -- [Part 1] Scenes from The Life of an Ambassador -- Henrice mi Ocelle -- Wanderjahre -- Il volpone vecchio -- Ottavio Baldi -- Honourable spy -- Più da filosofo che da cortigiano -- Fra Paolo Sarpi -- Johannes Kepler -- Ex Nihilo nihil fit -- Esto perpetua -- [Part 2] The Essays of Sir Henry Wotton -- The character of Pope Clement VIII -- Elizabeth Queen of England -- The death of Mary Queen of Scots -- The uses of ambassadors -- The character of Ferdinando de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany -- Letter on the origins of Venice -- The death of the Doge Marino Grimani & the election of Leonardo Donà -- The character of maestro Paulo the Servite -- Sir Henry Wotton's letter to Lord Verulam -- The Elements of Architecture, the preface -- A philosophical survey of education, of moral architecture -- A parallel between Robert Devereux, late Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, late Duke of Buckingham -- The character of King William the First -- Sir Henry Wotton's letter to John Milton -- Colophon.
Copy number 5 of a print run of 55. Loose leter by the editor to ECL at the upper end of the textblock.
Spring, Peter editor.
Italy Naples.
eng
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