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The Triumphe of Death Translated Out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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The Triumphe of death, a poetical translation of Petrarch's Trionfo della Morte, is found in ms. 538. 43. 1., ff. 286-289, in the Library of the Inner Temple, in London. As may be seen from the title, and from the signatures to each chapter, the translation is accredited to Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. The folios containing the translation form part of a group of miscellaneous pieces—in poetry and prose—preserved among the Petyt mss.
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page 47 note 1 See article in Dictionary of National Biography.
page 47 note 2 Historical mss. Commission, Eleventh Report, Appendix, Part vii. (House of Commons, 1888). Reports from Commissions, Inspectors, and Others, vol. lxii, pp. 227-308.
page 48 note 1 This list is condensed from pp. 272-3 of the report cited above.
page 49 note 1 leade?
page 49 note 2 18, 920; 36, 529 f. 46b; Lansd. 91; Harl. 7002 f. 244; Harl. 7003 f. 126; Harl. 7011 f. 78.
page 50 note 1 I have been guided to these conclusions by Miss E. Margaret Thompson, and by Mr. J. E. L. Pickering, Librarian of the Inner Temple.
page 50 note 2 “The Silkewormes and their Flies: Liuely described in verse, by T. M. a Countrie Farmar, and an apprentice in Physicke … London, 1599.” Described by J. P. 'Collier in his Bibliog. and Crit. Acct., ed. of 1866, vol. 2, pp. 335-6. The Dict. Nat. Biog. gives Moffatt's dates as 1553-1604. The identification of “ T. M.” as Thomas Moffatt is effected by an allusion in a letter from John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, London, March 1, 1599 (State Papers, Domestic, 1599). See also the mention of “Dr. Muffet,” as the author of this poem, in Baxter's Ourania, Corser: Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, vol. 55, p. 220.
page 51 note 1 The Tryumphes of Frounces Petrarke. No date. Placed by Brit. Mus. catalog at c. 1565.
page 51 note 2 The Triumphs of Love, Chastitie, Death. Edinburgh, 1644.
page 51 note 3 The Triumphs of Francesco Petrarch. Fac-simile reprint by University Press, Cambridge, U. S. A., 1906.
page 52 note 1 The text of Petrarch offered here is that of the ordinary modern edition,—in this case, Le Rime di Petrarca, Firenze, 1903. The critical text established by Carl Appel (Die Triumphe Francesco Petrarcas, Halle, 1901) is at many points unlike the version obviously employed by Lady Pembroke.
page 52 note 2 Library of the Inner Temple, ms. 538. 43. l. ff. 286-289.
page 64 note 1 (Sic). On pleasing?
page 69 note 1 ms. Tho.