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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt:...the Latin poets of Italy visited that country, and the Zodiac of Life by Marcellus Palingenius (Venice, c. 1531) was highly popular in its English dress. The eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus (1448--1516), the 'good old Mantuan' of Love's Labour s Lost, were.read in the grammar-schools of Shakespeare's boyhood, were translated by Turberville in 1567 and imitated in Spenser's 'Shepherd's Calendar' in is875. Meanwhile, Latin scholarship was well represented in Scotland by a humanist who was born before Cheke and Buchanan Ascham, and survived them both. George Buchanan (1506--1582) studied in Paris in 1520-2 and at St Andrew's in 1524. In 1526 he returned to Paris, where he taught Grammar in the College of Ste Barbe, and was tutor to the young Earl of Cassilis in 1529-34." In 1540-7 he was teaching Latin at Bordeaux, Paris, and Coimbra, living mainly in France, Portugal, and Italy, until his return to Scotland in 1559. Apart from his Latin poem on the Sphere7, his Latin epigrams on his imaginary loves, 1 Cp. Shakespeare's Plutarch, ed. Skeat (1875). 2 Fuller's Worthies, iii 287 Nuttall. 3 The whole of this translation was ' written with one pen', which a lady set in silver and preserved as a curiosity. 4 iv 2, 97 f. 6 Cp. Einstein, 346-8. 6 It was to the Earl of Cassilis that Buchanan dedicated his first work, his Latin translation (1533) of Linacre's English Rudiinenta Grammatices. 1 1586 etc.; Hallam, ii 147 4. Scotia.fi 'Uat.&m hunc adidam vrodu-xtt ai arcton. Credo cauidvm ael'ilff pfrcalurc folf-George Buchanan. From Boissard's Tcones, III iv 22 (Frankfurt, 1598). his Latin plays1, and his translation of the Medea and Alcestis in Latin verse, his scholarship is best represented by his Latin version of the Psalms in various metres (1566...