The boke of wisdome [electronic resource] : otherwise called the flower of vertue. Folowinge the auctorities of auncient doctours [and] philosophers, deuyding and speaking of vices and vertue, with many goodly examples wherby a man maye be praised or dyspraysed, with the maner to speake well and wyselye to all folkes of what estate so euer they bee. Translated fyrst out of Italion into French, and out of French into English by Iohn Larke.

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Book
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English
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[Imprinted at London : In Fletestreate, beneath the conduyte, at the sygne of S. Iohn Euangeliste, by Thomas Col(well), [1575?]]
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[176] p.

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eebo-0018
Notes
  • Translation by John Larke of "Chapelet des vertus", a French version of "Fiore di virtù", sometimes attributed to Tommaso Leoni and to Tommaso Gozzadini.
  • Imprint from colophon; publication date suggested by STC.
  • With four final contents leaves.
  • Last leaf blank?.
  • Signatures: A⁴ B-L M⁴.
  • Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
References
STC (2nd ed.) 3358a.
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