Thomas Twyne (1543 – 1 August 1613

Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. The town is the administrative centre of the wider Lewes (district), district of the same name. It lies on the River Ouse, Sussex, River Ouse at the point where the river cuts through the Sou ...

) was an

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translator and a physician of

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

, best known for completing Thomas Phaer's translation of

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Rome, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Augustan period. He composed three of the most fa ...

Aeneid The ''Aeneid'' ( ; or ) is a Latin Epic poetry, epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy, Trojan who fled the Trojan War#Sack of Troy, fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Ancient Rome ...

into English verse after Phaer's death in 1560, and for his 1579 English translation of ''

De remediis utriusque fortunae ''De remediis utriusque fortunae'' ("Remedies for Fortunes") is a collection of 254 Latin dialogues written by the humanist Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), commonly known as Petrarch. The dialogues display remarkably lucid ideas that are coge ...

'', a collection of 253 Latin dialogues written by the humanist

Francesco Petrarca Francis Petrarch (; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; ; modern ), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's let ...

(1304–1374), commonly known as Petrarch. Thomas was the son of

John Twyne John Twyne (c.1505–1581) was an English schoolmaster, scholar and author, and also Member of Parliament for Canterbury. Life He was born about 1501 at Bullington, Hampshire, the son of William Twyne. He was educated, according to Anthony Wo ...

(c.1500-1581) of

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, himself a translator, schoolmaster, noted collector of

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manuscripts and author of the Commentary ''De Rebus Albionicis'' (London, 1590). Tywne's son,

Brian Twyne Brian Twyne ( – 4 July 1644) was an English antiquary and an academic at the University of Oxford. After being educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and becoming a Fellow of the college in 1606, he published his one main work, a h ...

, became the first Keeper of the Archives of the

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. Thomas was a native of

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and was educated at

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. He acted in the

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version of '' Palamon and Arcite'', put on before

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in 1566, on which occasion the stage collapsed, killing and injuring a number of people. He enjoyed the patronage of Lord Buckhurst and greatly admired

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and his mystic philosophy.

Epitaph

In St. Anne's Church on the hill at Lewes. The historian

Thomas Walker Horsfield Rev. Thomas Walker Horsfield FSA (christened 2 December 1792, Sheffield - 26 August 1837, Chowbent, Lancashire), was an English Nonconformist minister, topographer, and historian best known for his works ''The History and Antiquities of Lewes ...

, F.S.A. (1792–1837) translated the rather florid Latin inscription: :''Hippocrates saw Twyne lifeless and his bones slightly covered with earth. Some of his sacred dust (says he) will be of use to me in removing diseases; for the dead, when converted into medicine, will expel human maladies, and ashes prevail against ashes. Now the physician is absent, disease extends itself on every side, and exults its enemy is no more. Alas! here lies our preserver Twyne; the flower and ornament of his age. Sussex deprived of her physician, languished, and is ready to sink along with him. Believe me, no future age will produce so good a physician and so renowned a man as this has. He died at Lewes in 1613, on 1 August, in the tenth climacteric.''''

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'', by E. V. Lucas A modern edition of forty-six of

Petrarch Francis Petrarch (; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; ; modern ), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanism, humanists. Petrarch's redis ...

's dialogues, ''Phisicke Against Fortune'', was published in 1993.

Books

* Humphrey Lloyd (Llwyd, Lhuyd), Humphrey (1527–1568), ''Commentarioli Descriptionis Britannicae Fragmentum'' (Cologne, 1572), translated into English by Thomas Twyne as ''The Breviary of Britayne'' (London, 1573) *Pierre Drouet's work translated by Thomas Twyne as ''A new counsell against the plague'' (1578) *

Maffeo Vegio Maffeo Vegio () (1407–1458) was an Italian poet who wrote in Latin; he is regarded by many as the finest Latin poet of the fifteenth century. Born near Lodi, Lombardy, Lodi, he studied at the University of Pavia, and went on to write some fifty ...

, ''Supplement to the Twelfth Book of the Aeneid'' as translated by Thomas Twyne, 1584

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