Petrarch

AH was a Scotswoman who during the earlier seventeenth century edited work by her father, David Hume of Godscroft , for publication and herself translated Petrarch into English verse.

She may have translated into English parts of the Essays on Petrarch which Ugo Foscolo privately published (in only sixteen copies) through Bentley on 1 May 1821 after being outraged by changes made in translation...

Evan Tyler , the King's Printer at Edinburgh, issued, with her name, AH 's The Triumphs of Love: Chastitie: Death: Translated out of Petrarch.

SL 's eclipse into relative obscurity is attributable to a number of factors, and raises the question to what degree she deserved the praise she received. One critic remarks that her fame . ....

In a dedication to her grandchildren (unpaginated), BBBD gives some history of her translations, made at different and distant periods of my life. She cites Mathias , Foscolo , and Panizzi , for...

Her sonnets (always Petrarch an in form) are similarly melancholy. Here she balances the inevitability of earthly suffering with the insufficiency of many earthly goals: why must one live and labour and wax old /...

This time MRM 's setting was fourteenth-century Rome. Rienzi was a friend of Petrarch .

MC 's targets are the same as those of Jane Austen 's juvenilia: the motifs and the hyperbole of sentimental and gothic novels. It is not her heroine but her heroine's mother who is led...

The poems include an Ode to Genius (which implicitly claims that status), Petrarch to Laura (which woos a woman in a male voice), and a piece responding to Hannah Cowley 's expression of disbelief that...

AJV translates from Sappho , Anacreon , Alcæus , Theocritus , Horace , and more recent poets: Petrarch and Camoens . She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute

It concludes that her heart will forever conceal that it drags in reasons Spite / an Heavy, Hopeless Chain. One of the other poems in this group is entitled Sonnet—in ye Manner of Petrarch

The plays included are four: Gonzalvo of Cordova, Pedarias, Ina, and Xarifa. A Tragic Drama. Dacre restored the cuts made to Ina for staging, including the original version of the ending...

AB 's novel was advertised for sale on 21 July. The title-page quotes Petrarch in the original Italian, and the preface makes the claim that the author is really only an editor, transmitting...

In old age QEI translated Boethius, Plutarch, Tacitus , and Horace. Most of this work was printed as Queen Elizabeth's Englishings, 1899. Her rendering of the opening passage of Petrarch 's The Triumph of...

One of MC 's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1989).