Wits theater of the little world.
The book comprises "a collection of the flowers of antiquities and histories", an epitomized view of the world of human endeavor, belief, achievement, and behavior, rich in excerpts, exempla, and commonplaces mined from numerous ancient and Renaissance authorities, as well as contemporarie...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Printed by I.R. for N.L. & are to be sold at the west doore of Paules,
1599.
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| Summary: | The book comprises "a collection of the flowers of antiquities and histories", an epitomized view of the world of human endeavor, belief, achievement, and behavior, rich in excerpts, exempla, and commonplaces mined from numerous ancient and Renaissance authorities, as well as contemporaries. These literary luminaries include philosophers, poets, theologians, tragedians, historians, essayists, humanists, neoplatonists, astrologers, and chroniclers, including: Albumazar, Erasmus, Luther, Ovid, Vergil, Lispius, Augustine, Froissart, Petrarch, and the writer of the Polychronicon. The quotations are arranged under a multitude of subject headings, including: art, astronomy, books, cursing, comedians, dicing, fashions and apparel, magic, martyrs, poets, pastoral poems, visions, schoolmasters, women, and of course, wit. |
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| Item Description: | Published anonymously. Dedicated to John Bodenham, under whose patronage the work was produced and to whom it has been often attributed. In a copy preserved in the British museum the dedication is signed "Robert Allott" and Bodenham's name is printed in full. Cf. DNB, volume 1, page 336, and volume 5, pages 291-292. Printer's mark of Nicholas Ling on title page. Signatures: A⁴ B-2M⁸ 2N⁴. With a final errata leaf. Third volume in a series of which Bodenham's "Politeuphuia," 1597, was the first; Meres' "Palladis Tamia," 1598, the second; and "Palladis Palatium," 1604, the fourth. Cf. STC. |
| Physical Description: | 6 unnumbered pages, 269 pages, 14 unnumbered pages ; 13 cm. (octavo) |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |