Vergil, Polydore | Further Reading
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Cespedes, Frank V. “The Final Book of Polydore Vergil's ‘Anglica Historia’: ‘Persecution and the Art of the Writing.’” Medieval and Renaissance Studies 10 (1979): 375-96.
Argues that Vergil's section on Henry VIII is full of careful irony.
Copenhaver, Brian P. “The Historiography of Discovery in the Renaissance: The Source and Composition of Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum, I-III.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 41 (1978): 192-214.
Argues that Vergil's De inventoribus rerum is remarkable for its scope and use of diverse historical sources.
Ellis, Henry. Preface to Three Books of Polydore Vergil's English History, Comprising the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, edited by Sir Henry Ellis, pp. i-xxx. 1844. Reprint. Westport, Conn.: AMS Press, 1968.
Provides a biographical sketch of Vergil's...
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