| Item Description: | North's translation first published in 1557, although professedly from the French, was made in large measure from the Spanish original. cf. Dict. nat. biog.
"'Dial for princes, or Marcus Aurelius' first published in 1529 ... is a kind of romance, founded on the life and character of Marcus Aurelius .. its purpose being to place before the Emperor Charles the Fifth the model of a prince more perfect for wisdom and virtue than any other antiquity."--Ticknor, Hist. of Span. lit., volume 2, page 16. |
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