Mundus Muliebris: The World of Women Reviled and Defended ca. 195 B.C. and 1551 A.D. and Other Things....
A lost translation from Livy by William Thomas (d. 1554) has surfaced at Harvard University. Entitled An Argument, wherein the apparaile of women is both reproued and defended (new STC 16612a. 7), it extends our understanding of the mysterious Thomas, who returned from Italy in 1548/49, recognized f...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1993
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1993, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 541-560 |
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| Summary: | A lost translation from Livy by William Thomas (d. 1554) has surfaced at Harvard University. Entitled An Argument, wherein the apparaile of women is both reproued and defended (new STC 16612a. 7), it extends our understanding of the mysterious Thomas, who returned from Italy in 1548/49, recognized for a history of Italy in English and an Italian grammar. Less known are Thomas's activities as a clerk of the Privy Council (1550-53) and his connections with Edward VI. The unknown text defends women vilified at a court feast. Thomas describes life during the terrible war when Romans gave everything to defeat Hannibal. However, as a humanistcum-realist connected to the king's Privy Chamber, Thomas also cleverly used Livy to illumine the "crisis year of 1551." Northumberland's coinage alterations and the boy king's influence on court apparel, this article argues, are the real motives behind a feast linking Thomas to other Inglesi italianati who changed political humanism in mid-Tudor England. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2542108 |