A treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses vvith other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune together with their most detestable [and] wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan Iohn Lidgate monke of Burye.
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- A treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses vvith other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune together with their most detestable [and] wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan Iohn Lidgate monke of Burye.
- De casibus illustrium virorum. English
- Treatise excellent and compendious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses with other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of unstedfast fortune
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[London]: In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio, [[1554 (10 Sept.)]
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, tr.
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- 141890
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- [9], CCxxiiii [i.e. 225] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 2⁰
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- A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the. x. day of September in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1554.
"The daunce of Machabree", quire 2[par.] at end.
Signatures: [par.]? A-Y? 2A-2P? 2[par.]?.
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- From a French version by Laurent de Premierfaict?