Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot ab Ioanne Holpenio pictus

Thomas Elyot (Wiltoniensi Comitatu, circa 1490—Carleton Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, 20 Martii 1546) fuit humanista scriptorque Anglicus aetate Renascentiae.

Opera

• The Boke named the Governour (1531)
• The Knowledge which maketh a Wise Man and Pasquyll the Playne (1533)
• The Bankette of Sapience (1534)
• The Castell of Helth (1536)
• Latin Dictionary (1538; 2a ed., 1542; reimpressa 1545)
• The Defence of Good Women (1540)
• Image of Governance (1540)
• Preservative agaynste Deth (1545), which contains many quotations from the Church Fathers

Versiones

• Isocrates, The Doctrinal of Princes (1533?)
• Cyprianus, Cyprianus, A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of the Mortalitie of Man (1534)
• Ioannes Picus Mirandula, Rules of a Christian Life (1534)
• Plutarchus, The Education or Bringing up of Children (c. 1535)
• (interprete incerto) Plutarchus, Howe one may take Profile of his Enymes (1535)

Bibliographia

• Stanford Lehmberg, "Elyot, Sir Thomas (c.1490–1546)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis

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