Étienne Dolet : the Martyr of the Renaissance, 1508-1546. A biography / by Richard Copley Christie.

  • Richard Copley Christie
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Étienne Dolet : the Martyr of the Renaissance, 1508-1546. A biography / by Richard Copley Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION In offering to the public the result of the scanty leisure of the past eight years, I am fully sensible of its deficiencies, but the difficulty of the task which I have undertaken may perhaps be admitted as an extenuating circumstance, if it does not altogether relieve me from censure, England possesses hardly any materials for writing the life of a French scholar of the first half of the sixteenth century. Rich as the British Museum is in many depart- ments, it is singularly deficient in the French and Franco- Latin books of this period. But if this is generally the case, it is especially so in reference to ^tienne Dolet, whose own works are among the rarest writings of the time, and the other contemporary authorities for his life are only one degree less so.^ Of many of the books cited in this volume, which I have had to refer to, and in some cases to read through, more than once, no copies are to be found in England. Of some, a copy does not even exist in the P Since this sentence was written, the British Museum has added largely to its collection of books printed by Dolet. 1899.] b
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