1st Edition
Anna Hume Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 8
By Thomas P. Roche Jr.
Copyright 2006
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Little is known of Anna Hume except as the translator of the first three of Petrach's Trionfi and also as the daughter of David Hume of Godscroft whose History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus she edited in one of its troubled versions. This volume reprints her translation of Petrarch's The Triumphs of Love - a series of six poems celebrating Petrarch's purported devotion to Laura. The poems... Read more
Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; The Triumphs of Love: Chastitie: Death: Translated out of Petrach by Mris Anna Hume; Appendix A: Robert Farley, Emblem 57 from Lychnocausia, sive moralia facum emblemata. Lights Morall Emblems (1638); Appendix B: Elizabeth I (tr.), 'Triumphe Petrarcke' [Triumph of Eternitie] (BL MS Add. 28635); Appendix C: Mary Sidney Herbert (tr.), 'Triumph of death' (Inner Temple Library: MS Petyt 538); Appendix D: Trionfi illustrations from Il Petrarcha con l'espositione di M. Alessandro Vellutello, di nuove ristampato con le Figure a I Trionfi, con le Apostille, e con più cose utili aggiunte. In Venetia, MDLXXIX; Appendix E: Barbarina Ogle Brand, Lady Dacre (tr.), 'Triumph of death' (ll. 102-72) from Bohn's Illustrated Library: Petrach (1859).
Biography
Thomas J. Roche Jr. is Professor of English at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
