• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Will of Polydore Vergil
  • Beteiligte: Whitney, E. A.; Cram, P. P.
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1928
  • Erschienen in: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
  • Umfang: 117-136
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.2307/3678541
  • ISSN: 0080-4401; 1474-0648
  • Schlagwörter: History
  • Zusammenfassung: <jats:p><jats:sc>Twenty-five</jats:sc> years ago Cardinal Gasquet in a paper read before the Royal Historical Society pointed out the desirability of a new edition of Polydore Vergil's <jats:italic>Historia Anglica</jats:italic> based on an as yet unpublished manuscript in the Vatican Library. In this paper he referred to the important differences between the Vatican manuscript and the published versions of the <jats:italic>Historia</jats:italic>, and suggested certain significant possibilities in regard to some of the facts of Polydore Vergil's life. In the course of researches preliminary to the preparation of a critical edition of the <jats:italic>Historia</jats:italic>, the will of Polydore was discovered in the municipal archives of his birthplace, Urbino. The publication of this document provides a suitable opportunity for further comment upon the life and importance of “le premier historien humaniste en Angleterre.”</jats:p>
  • Beschreibung: <jats:p><jats:sc>Twenty-five</jats:sc> years ago Cardinal Gasquet in a paper read before the Royal Historical Society pointed out the desirability of a new edition of Polydore Vergil's <jats:italic>Historia Anglica</jats:italic> based on an as yet unpublished manuscript in the Vatican Library. In this paper he referred to the important differences between the Vatican manuscript and the published versions of the <jats:italic>Historia</jats:italic>, and suggested certain significant possibilities in regard to some of the facts of Polydore Vergil's life. In the course of researches preliminary to the preparation of a critical edition of the <jats:italic>Historia</jats:italic>, the will of Polydore was discovered in the municipal archives of his birthplace, Urbino. The publication of this document provides a suitable opportunity for further comment upon the life and importance of “le premier historien humaniste en Angleterre.”</jats:p>
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