Elizabeth I

EnglandOCOs Virgin Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, had a reputation for proficiency in foreign languages, repeatedly demonstrated in multilingual exchanges with foreign emissaries at court and in the extemporized Latin she spoke on formal visits to Cambridge and Oxford. But the supreme proof of her mastery of other tongues is the sizable body of translations she made over the course of her lifetime. This two-volume set is the first complete collection of ElizabethOCOs translations from and into Latin, French, and Italian. aaaaaaaaaaa Presenting original and modernized spellings in a facing-page format, these two volumes will answer the call to make all of ElizabethOCOs writings available. They include her renderings of epistles of Cicero and Seneca, religious writings of John Calvin and Marguerite de Navarre, and HoraceOCOs "Ars poetica," as well as ElizabethOCOs Latin "Sententiae" drawn from diverse sources, on the responsibilities of sovereign rule and her own perspectives on the monarchy.a Editors Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel offer introduction to each of the translated selections, describing the source text, its cultural significance, and the historical context in which Elizabeth translated it. Their annotations identify obscure meanings, biblical and classical references, and ElizabethOCOs actual or apparent deviations from her sources.a aaaaaaaaaaa The translations collected here trace ElizabethOCOs steady progression from youthful evangelical piety to more mature reflections on morality, royal responsibility, public and private forms of grief, and the right way to rule.a "Elizabeth I: Translations "is the queenOCOs personal legacy, an example of the very best that a humanist education can bring to the conduct of sovereign rule.aaa"