The First Printed Translations into English 8

The First Printed Translations into English 8

'The "Decameron" consists of a hundred stories supposed to

be related in ten consecutive days, by a party of ten ladies

and gentlemen, who had retreated to a charming asylum from

plague-stricken Florence in the year 1348. Some of the stories

are tragedies, some are comic, some idylls. B. took most of his

plots from the current fiction of his time, from the popular

French _fabliaux_, from Oriental and classical sources, from

actual history, and from tradition'.

 

For other copyings from B. it may be enough to mention

Lydgate's 'Falls of Princes' and the 'Mirror for Magistrates'

(1559) based on the 'De Casibus Illustrium Virorum' of the

Italian.

 

 

=BODIN, JEAN.= _b._ 1530, _d._ 1596. =French representative and

political writer.=

 

THE SIX BOOKES OF A COMMONWEALE, OUT OF THE FRENCH AND LATINE COPIES.

Done into English by Richard Knolles, 1606.

 

This work was once read at our universities.

 

 

=BOETHIUS.= _b._ 470, _d._ 525. =Roman philosopher and statesman.=

 

THE BOKE OF CONSOLACION OF PHILOSOPHIE. _Tr._ by Geoffrey Chaucer.

[1490]. Printed by Caxton.

 

[This work was first translated by King Alfred into Anglo-Saxon.]

 

'Boethius stood to the Dark Ages for the exemplar of the

philosopher. His place in mediaeval reading was very high, and

may be gauged from the fact that in England Alfred the Great

translated his "Consolations" into Anglo-Saxon. To Chaucer,

as to all the mediaeval world, "Boece" was part of the staple

library'.

 

 

=BOIARDO, MATTIO MARIA.= _b._ 1434, _d._ 1494. =Italian poet.=

 

ORLANDO INNAMORATO. [Charlemagne Romances]. The three first Bookes

done into English Heroical Verse (1480). _Tr._ by R(obert) T(ofte).

1598.

 

Milton was influenced by B. in his 'Paradise Regained'.

 

'Orlando Innamorato' was left unfinished by B., and was

afterwards finished by Ariosto under the title of 'Orlando

Furioso'.

 

 

=BOILEAU= (_or_, =BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX=) =NICOLAS= _b._ 1636, _d._ 1711.

=French poet and satirist.=

 

THE ART OF POETRY (1674). [In verse.] _Tr._ 1683.

 

A DISCOURSE OF SATIRES ARRAIGNING PERSONS BY NAME. _Tr._ 1730.

 

LUTRIN. A mock heroic poem. _Tr._ by N. O. 1682.

 

POSTHUMOUS WORKS. _Tr._ 1713.

 

A SATIRE [Translation of the Eighth Satire of B. on man]. 1801.

 

SATIRES. _Tr._ 1808.

 

THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR BOILEAU MADE ENGLISH BY SEVERAL HANDS. To which

is prefixed his life by Mr. Des Maizeaux. (_Tr._ by J. Ozell) and

some account of this translation by N. Rowe. 1712-13.

 

Roscommon's 'Essay on Translated Verse' is derived from

Boileau's French 'Art de Poetique'. One of the 'correct'

school. Pope and Addison were largely influenced by B. The

former's 'Essay on Criticism' is inspired by him. Boileau

himself was influenced by the 'De Arte Poetica' of Horace.

 

 

=BONNOT DE CONDILLAC (ÉTIENNE).= _See_ =Condillac.=

 

 

=BOOK OF THE DEAD. (PER-EM-HRU.)=

 

'A collection of prayers and exorcisms composed at various

times for the benefit of the pilgrim-soul in his journeys

through Amente (the Egyptian Hades)'.

 

_See_ Birch, Dr. Egypt's Place in Universal History. Vol. v. 1867.

[Based on Lepsius' imperfect Turin Text. 1842.]

 

_See also Article_ in Budge, E. A. Wallis. Dwellers on the Nile

(chapter 9) 1885.

 

This work has been printed in full from MSS. in the British

Museum. _Ed_. by E. A. W. Budge, with facsimiles _trs_. by

Budge.

 

 

=BOSSUET, JACQUES BENIGNE.= _b._ 1612, _d._ 1704. =French divine

and eminent pulpit orator.=

 

A DISCOURSE ON THE HISTORY OF THE WHOLE WORLD ... EXPLICATING THE

CONTINUANCE OF RELIGION WITH THE CHANGES OF STATES AND EMPIRES,

FROM THE CREATION TILL THE REIGN OF CHARLES THE GREAT. Faithfully

Englished (1679). 1686.

 

AN EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIQUE CHURCH, IN THE POINTS

OF CONTROVERSIE WITH THOSE OF THE PRETENDED REFORMATION. _Tr_. by W.

M.(ontague). 1672.

 

HISTORY OF FRANCE, FROM PHARAMOND TO CHARLES IX. _Tr_. 1762.

 

THE HISTORY OF THE VARIATIONS OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES.... _Tr_. 2

v. 1742.

 

QUAKERISM A-LA-MODE: or HISTORY OF QUIETISM.... _Tr_. 1698.

 

VIEW OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY. _Tr_. by James Elphinston, 1778.

 

 

=BOTTA, CARLO=. b. 1766, d. 1837. =Italian poet and historian.=

 

HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA. _Tr_. G. A. Otis. 3 v. 1820-21.

 

HISTORY OF ITALY DURING THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF NAPOLEON

BUONAPARTE. 2 v. _Tr_. 1828.

 

 

=BOURDEILLES (PIERRE DE) SEIGNEUR DE BRANTÔME.= _See_ =Brantôme.=

 

 

=BOURGET, PAUL C. J.= _b._ 1852. =French novelist.=

 

LAND OF PROMISE. _Tr_. 1895.

 

A LOVE CRIME. _Tr_. [1887].

 

A CRUEL ENIGMA. _Tr_. J. Cray, 1887.

 

A TRAGIC IDYLL. _Tr_. 1896.

 

A LIVING LIE. _Tr_. J. de Villiers, 1896.

 

OUTRE-MER. Impressions of America. _Tr_. 1895.

 

A SAINT AND OTHERS. _Tr_. J. Gray, 1892.

 

 

=BRANDES, GEORGE MAURICE COHEN.= _b._ 1842. =One of the most

brilliant of modern writers.=

 

EMINENT AUTHORS OF THE 19TH CENTURY. _Tr_. by R. B. Anderson, 1886.

 

IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA. _Tr_. by S. C. Eastman, 1889.

 

LORD BEACONSFIELD. A Study.... Authorised _translation_ by Mrs. G.

Sturge, 1880.

 

MAIN CURRENTS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. 6 v. _Tr_. 1890, etc.

 

SHAKESPEARE: A critical study. _Tr_. by Wm. Archer, M. Morison and D.

White, 1898.

 

His thorough criticism has given rise to what may be called a

new school of criticism in the North of Europe.

 

 

=BRANDT, SEBASTIAN.= _b._ 1458, _d._ 1521. =German satirist.=

 

SHYP OF FOLYS OF THE WORLDE (Narrenschiff, 1494). _Tr_. out of Laten,

French and Doche into the Englysshe Tonge. By Alexander B. Preste

[Barclay]. 1509.

 

'"The Narrenschiff" or "Ship of Fools" was imitated in the

sixteenth century by the English Barclay, and was the parent of

a considerable satirical progeny during the century.'

 

 

=BRANTÔME, PIERRE DE BOURDEILLES, SEIGNEUR DE.= _b._ 1540, _d._ 1614.

=French historian and litterateur.=

 

SPANISH RHODOMONTADES, AS ALSO ... PROOFS OF A TRUE HEROISM. _Tr._ M.

Ozell, 1741.

 

 

=BREMER, FREDERIKA.= _b._ 1801, _d._ 1865. =Swedish novelist.=

 

BROTHERS AND SISTERS: a tale of Domestic Life. _Tr._ 1848.

 

THE H-- FAMILY, ETC. (1831.) _Tr._ 1844.

 

THE NEIGHBOURS, ETC. (1837.) _Tr._ 1842.

 

THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTERS. _Tr._ 1843.

 

 

=BRENTANO, CLEMENS.= _b._ 1778, _d._ 1842. =German novelist and poet.=

 

HONOR ... _Tr._ 1847.

 

THE WONDROUS TALE OF COCKY, CLUCKY, AND CACKLE. _Tr._ C. W.

Heckethorn. [1889].

 

FAIRY TALES FROM B. _Tr._ K. F. Kroeker. [1884].