The First Printed Translations into English 6

The First Printed Translations into English 6

'The Bishop of Agen, was the most important of the Italian

_novellieri_. His "Novello" is a popular story, derived from

the French _fabliau_, full of spirited action, and true to the

life of his time'.

 

Shakespeare, Massinger and other English dramatists derived

some of their plots from B. Thus 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Measure

for Measure', 'Othello', etc., are all from the 'Novello'. The

Elizabethans also imitated B. largely.

 

The stories of Bandello enjoyed a wide vogue in France and

England, and formed matter for the exploitation of every class

of our Elizabethan dramatists and writers of fiction.

 

 

=BARBADILLO, DON ALONSO GERONIMO DE SALAS= _b._ 1580, _d._ 1630.

=Spanish poet and dramatist.=

 

FORTUNATE FOOL. _Tr._ from the Spanish by Philip Ayres. 1670.

 

 

=BARBOUR, JOHN.= _b._ 1316, _d._ 1396.

 

THE BRUCE. _Ed._ Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1870-77.

 

The Bruce is a history in verse of the life and deeds of Robert

Bruce.

 

 

=BARCLAY, JOHN.= _b._ 1582, _d._ 1621.

 

ARGENIS; or THE LOVES OF POLIARCHUS AND ARGENIS. 1611.

 

'A political allegory, written originally in Latin. B.

reconstructs the map of Europe, and, giving classical names

to the important personages of the era of the religious wars,

weaves an elaborate and perplexing romance full of surprises

and of double meanings'.

 

 

=BARON MUNCHAUSEN.= (German, 16th century.)

 

Falsely reputed to be the work of Bürger, the ballad-writer and

author of 'Lenore'. 'Perhaps the most perfectly ridiculous set

of impossible lies ever invented'.

 

GULLIVER REVIVED; or THE SINGULAR TRAVELS, CAMPAIGNS, VOYAGES, AND

ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNIKHOUSEN, COMMONLY CALLED MUNCKHAUSEN. _Tr._

1785.

 

 

=BATTLE OF FINNSBURG.= Fragment only. Text with _Tr._ by Thorpe, 1855.

 

 

=BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES P.= _b._ 1821, _d._ 1867. =French poet and

critic.=

 

ECHOES FROM THE FRENCH POETS. An Anthology from Baudelaire, etc.

_Tr._ 1870.

 

TRANSLATIONS FROM C. B. _Tr._ R. H. Shepherd, 1869.

 

 

=BAUMBACH, RUDOLPH.= _b._ 1841. =German poet.=

 

SUMMER LEGENDS. _Tr._ 1889.

 

TALES FROM WONDERLAND. _Tr._ Mrs. H. B. Dole. [1890].

 

 

=BAYLE, PIERRE.= _b._ 1647, _d._ 1706. =French philosopher and

critic.=

 

AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY, [1696] by Monsieur Bayle.

Translated with corrections ... by the Author. 4 v. 1710.

 

This work exerted a great influence over the literature and

philosophy of Europe before the French Revolution.

 

 

=BEAUMARCHAIS, PIERRE AUGUSTIN CARON DE.= _b._ 1732, _d._ 1799.

=French dramatist.=

 

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE; or, THE USELESS PRECAUTION: a comedy in four

acts [in prose] with songs, etc. [1775]. [_Tr._ by E. Griffith] 1776.

 

THE FOLLIES OF A DAY; or THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. (1784.) A comedy [in

five acts and in prose]. _Tr._ by T. Holcroft, 1785.

 

THE SCHOOL FOR RAKES: a comedy [in five acts and in prose]. _Tr._ by

E. Griffiths. 1769.

 

 

=BEDE. SURNAMED 'THE VENERABLE'.= _b._ 673, _d._ 735. =English monk

and ecclesiastical writer.=

 

BEDE'S HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLANDE. _Tr._ by Thomas Stapleton.

1565.

 

[_King Alfred Tr. this work into Anglo-Saxon._]

 

COMPLETE WORKS OF BEDE. _Tr._ by J. A. Giles, 12 v. 1843-44. v.

1: Letters, etc. v. 2-3, Historia Ecclesiastica. v. 4, Historical

Tracts. v. 5, Homilies. v. 6, Scientific Tracts. v. 7-12,

Commentaries on scriptures.

 

 

=BENYOVSZKY, MAURICE A.= _b._ 1741, _d._ 1786. =Hungarian writer.=

 

MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS.... 2 v. _Tr._ [W. Nicholson] 1789.

 

 

=BEOWULF.=

 

_A semi-fabulous hero of Denmark, who forms the subject of a

celebrated epic poem in West Saxon supposed to have been written

in the ninth century._

 

THE POEM OF BEOWULF. _Tr._ by J. M. Kemble, 1837.

 

The MS. is in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum

(Codex Vitellius, A. xv.). Grímr Jónsson Thorkelin, an

Icelandic scholar, had two copies made of it in 1815. Through

this edition the poem became known in England, Germany and

Denmark, but Sharon Turner gave the first account of it in

1805. In 1833 (2nd edition, 1835) J. M. Kemble issued a

complete edition of the text of Beowulf, and in 1837 translated

the whole of it into English.

 

 

=BERANGER, PIERRE JEAN DE.= _b._ 1780, _d._ 1857. French lyric poet.

 

ONE HUNDRED SONGS, with translations by W. Young, 1847.

 

SONGS OF BERANGER, _translated_ by the author of the 'Exile of

Idria', 1837.

 

 

=BERGERAC, SAVINIEN CYRANO DE.= _b._ 1620, _d._ 1655. =French

litterateur and dramatic author.=

 

SATYRICAL CHARACTERS AND HANDSOME DEscRIPTIONS IN LETTERS. _Tr._ from

the French, by a Person of Honour. 1658.

 

HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THE SUN AND MOON, done into English by Tho.,

St. Serf, Gent. 1659.

 

COMICAL HISTORY OF THE STATES AND EMPIRES OF THE WORLD OF THE MOON

AND SUN; newly Englished by A. Lovell, 1687. 1st _Tr._ 1638.

 

VOYAGE TO THE MOON WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SOLAR WORLD, done from

the French by S. Derrick. 1753.

 

To this philosophical romance on the system of Descartes, Swift

is supposed to have been greatly indebted: the journey to the

moon being the origin of Swift's Brobdignag, and that to the

sun suggesting the voyage to Laputa.

 

 

=BERGSOL, WILHELM GORGEN.= _b._ 1835. =Danish author.=

 

BRIDE OF ROERVIG. _Tr._ N. Francis, 1877.

 

 

=BERNARD, CHARLES DE.= _Pseud._ (Charles Bernard D. de La Villette).

_b._ 1805, _d._ 1850. =French novelist.=

 

LION'S SKIN AND THE LOVER HUNT. _Tr._ 1853.

 

LOVER AND THE HUSBAND. _Tr._ 1841.

 

 

=BERNI, FRANCESCO.= _b._ 1610, _d._ 1673. =Italian orator, poet, and

dramatic author.=

 

THE ORLANDO INNAMORATO. _Tr._ W. S. Rose, 1823.

 

THE ENCHANTED LAKE OF THE FAIRY MORGANA, from O. I. _Tr._ 1806.

 

 

=BEYLE, MARIE-HENRI.= [=H. B. DE STENDHAL.= =L. A. C. BOMBET.=] _b._

1783, _d._ 1842. =Versatile French litterateur.=

 

THE CHARTREUSE OF PARMA (1839). _Tr._ 1895.

 

RED AND BLACK: a story of provincial France. (Le Rouge et le Noire

1830). _Tr._ 1898.

 

 

=BÈZE, THEODORE.= _b._ 1519, _d._ 1605. =French Calvinistic

theologian and scholar=.

 

A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Wherein are set forth the

cheefe points of the Christian Religion. _Tr._ by A. Golding, 1574.

 

A BRIEFE AND PITHIE [_sic_] SUMME OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, MADE IN

FORME OF A CONFESSION.... _Tr._ by R(obert) F(yll), 1565.

 

A BRIEFE DECLARATION OF THE CHIEFE POYNTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION._Tr._ 1556.