Aubrey's Brief LivesDavid R. Godine Publisher, 1999 - 408 páginas John Aubrey (1626-1697) was the Bystander of his age, a hanger-on and hanger-out at great houses, a country gentleman of lively intellectual curiosity and unsteady character who left not a book to history but a random, sprawling collection of notes, anecdotes, scribbles and morsels of gossip that have been looted and quoted by scholars ever since. So, alongside prostitutes, soldiers, impostors and scholars stand, fully in the round of their humanity, such historical figures as Sir Walter Raleigh, Shakespeare, Wolsey, Sidney, Sir Thomas Moore and Milton. These men and women flawed, vain, ambitious, vulnerable are more alive here than in any formal history; these giants of an age are brought to a human scale, making it possible for the modern reader to feel, in the words of Edmund Wilson who contributes a foreword, what it must have been like to live then, to find oneself a part of an England that was venturesome, unsettled and eager, that was opening new horizons. |
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Contenido
PAGE | xiii |
Foreword | xv |
The Life and Times of John Aubrey | xxi |
George Abbot | 3 |
Isaac Barrow | 17 |
Sir John Birkenhead | 23 |
Caisho Borough | 29 |
The Hon Robert Boyle | 36 |
John Hoskyns | 168 |
Sir Leoline Jenkins | 174 |
Ben Jonson | 177 |
Richard Knolles | 188 |
Andrew Marvell | 196 |
George Monk 1st Duke of Albemarle | 204 |
Sir Jonas Moore | 209 |
Sir Thomas Morgan | 215 |
Thomas Bushell | 42 |
William Butler | 48 |
Lucius Cary 2nd Viscount Falkland | 55 |
Thomas Chaloner | 61 |
Sir Edward Coke | 67 |
Abraham Cowley | 75 |
Sir Charles Danvers | 77 |
Edward Davenant | 82 |
John Dee | 89 |
Sir Everard Digby | 96 |
Desiderius Erasmus | 102 |
John Florio | 108 |
Thomas Goffe | 113 |
Edmund Halley | 120 |
William Harvey | 128 |
Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury | 134 |
William Herbert 1st Earl of Pembroke | 141 |
Thomas Hobbes | 147 |
William Holder | 160 |
William Oughtred | 222 |
John Pell | 229 |
Sir William Petty | 237 |
Katherine Philips | 242 |
William Prynne | 250 |
Mary Rich Countess of Warwick | 261 |
Sir Henry Savile | 267 |
John Selden | 271 |
William Shakespeare | 275 |
Sir Henry Spelman | 281 |
Sir John Suckling | 287 |
John Tombes | 294 |
William Twisse | 300 |
William de Visscher | 307 |
Walter Warner | 315 |
John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester | 321 |
Glossary of Persons | 336 |
Index | 388 |
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