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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| Language: | English |
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[London] :
In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio,
[[1554 (10 Sept.)]
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| Edition: | And nowe newly imprynted, corrected, and augmented out of diuerse and sundry olde writen copies in parchment. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | 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. The last leaf is misnumbered CCxxiiii. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([9], CCxxiiii [id est 225] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) |