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    Thomas Blundeville - Wikipedia

    • Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522 – c. 1606) was an English humanist writer and mathematician. He is known for work on logic, astronomy, education and horsemanship, as well as for translations from the Italian. His interests were both wide-ranging and directed towards practical ends, and he adapted freely a number of the works he translated. He was a pio… See more

    Life

    He lived as a country gentleman on his estate at Newton Flotman, in Norfolk. He inherited from his father Edward … See more

    Writings

    He made a partial verse translation of the Moralia of Plutarch, to which Roger Ascham added verses. It appeared as Three Moral Treatises in 1561, his first work, to mark the accession of Elizabeth I, to whom one of the pieces wa… See more

    Works

    • A Very Brief and Profitable Treatise declaring how many Counsels and what name of Counsellors a Prince that will govern well ought to have (1570) translation from Federigo Furio, reprinted 1963 as Of … See more

    Further reading

    • Hugh G. Dick, Thomas Blundeville's The True order and Methode of wryting and reading Hystories, Huntingdon Library Quarterly, 3 (1940)
    • Jean Jacquot, Humanisme et science dans l'Angleterre élisabéthai… See more

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