The European reception of Livy (1469-1600) -- Anthony Cope's Livy: Tudor propaganda and war with Scotland -- Roman history and the status of women: the struggle over Livy in the English Querelle des Femmes -- Livy's Lucretia in English poetry and prose: William Painter's Palace of Pleasure and Shakespeare's Lucrece -- Shakespeare's Macbeth and Livy's legendary Rome -- Philemon Holland's Livy and Sir Francis Nethersole's Problemes: a Tudor translation in the English Civil War
Summary
The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. This study explores the early modern translations of Livy, the single most important Roman historian for the development of politics and culture in Renaissance Europe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Includes quotations in Latin, some with English translation
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 9, 2020)
