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Caelica
''Caelica'' or ''Cælica'' is a sequence of 110 sonnets and poems by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. Martha F. Crow thinks the large part of the poems youthful work composed before 1586, while the last poems in the series (more serious in tone) were written later. The collection includes a variety of verse forms and shows the Italian influence of courtiers like John Florio Giovanni Florio (1552 or 1553 – 1625), known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important Renaissance humanist in ... at the English court. ''Caelica'' was published posthumously i''Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes''(1633). References {{Authority control Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (; 3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628) was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who served in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage. Greville was a capable administrator who served the English Crown under Elizabeth I and James I as, successively, treasurer of the navy, chancellor of the exchequer, and commissioner of the Treasury, and who for his services was in 1621 made Baron Brooke, peer of the realm. Greville was granted Warwick Castle in 1604, making numerous improvements. Greville is best known today as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, and for his sober poetry, which presents dark and thoughtful views on art, literature, beauty and other philosophical matters. Life Fulke Greville, born 3 October 1554, at Beauchamp Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire, was the only son of Sir Fulke Greville (1536–1606) and Anne Neville (d. 1583), the daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Foote Crow
Martha Emily Foote Crow (May 28, 1854 – January 1, 1924) was an American educator and writer. Born in Sackets Harbor, New York,KM"Martha Foote Crow Papers: an inventory of her papers at Syracuse University" Syracuse University, May 1990. she played an important role in the development of higher education for women in the United States.Rossiter, Margaret W. "Doctorates for American Women, 1868-1907". ''History of Education Quarterly'' 22, no. 2 (Summer): 159–183. Biography Martha Foote Crow was born in Sackets Harbor, New York, to Reverend John B. and Mary Pendexter (Stilphen) Foote on May 28, 1854. In 1872, while studying at Syracuse University, she was one of the founding members of the sorority Alpha Phi."Founders." Alpha Phi Fraternity, n.d"About Us" Alpha Phi. . She earned a Ph.B. in 1876 and Ph.M. in 1878, and finally her Ph.D. in English literature in 1886, all at Syracuse. In 1885, she married John M. Crow, an archaeologist. John Crow joined the faculty of Iowa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Florio
Giovanni Florio (1552 or 1553 – 1625), known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important Renaissance humanist in England. Florio contributed 1,149 words to the English language, placing third after Chaucer (with 2,012 words) and Shakespeare (with 1,969 words), in the linguistic analysis conducted by Stanford professor John Willinsky. Florio was the first translator of Montaigne into English, possibly the first translator of Boccaccio into English and he wrote the first comprehensive Italian–English dictionary (surpassing the only previous modest Italian–English dictionary by William Thomas published in 1550). Playwright and poet Ben Jonson was a personal friend, and Jonson hailed Florio as "loving father" and "ayde of his muses". Philosopher Giordano Bruno was also a personal friend; Florio met the Italian philosopher in London, while both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
