Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. General Introduction 1
6. I. 1544: marguerite de Navarre’s le miroir de l’âme pécheresse
7. Introduction 25
8. Translation 40
9. II. 1545: Katherine Parr’s prayers or meditations
10. Introduction 128
11. Dedicatory Letter 135
12. Latin translation 139
13. French translation 157
14. Italian translation 179
15. III. 1545: John Calvin’s institution de la religion Chrestienne, chapter one
16. Introduction 203
17. Dedicatory letter 212
18. Translation 218
19. IV. 1547: Bernardino Ochino’s “che cosa è christo”
20. Introduction 291
21. Elizabeth’s Latin translation 300
22. Editors’ English translation 301
23. V. 1563: Elizabeth’s Sententiae
24. Introduction 331
25. Sententiae 346
26. VI. Pre- 1558–1580s: Elizabeth’s book inscriptions
27. Introduction 397
28. Inscriptions 399
29. VII. Ca. 1567: Seneca’s Epistulae Morales 107
30. Introduction 409
31. Translation 415
32. VIII. Ca. 1579: Cicero’s Epistulae ad familiares 2.6
33. Introduction 425
34. Translation 433
35. IX. Ca. 1589: choral ode from Hercules Oetaeus
36. Introduction 439
37. Translation 447
38. Appendix 1: Translation Ascribed to Elizabeth of Francesco Petrarch’s Trionfo dell’Eternità, lines 1–90
39. Introduction 459
40. Translation 469
41. Appendix 2: The Reliability of Nugae Antiquae as a Source for Translations Ascribed to Elizabeth
42. Introduction 477
43. Index of Names 483