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Polydore Vergil or Virgil, widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the Proverbiorum libellus (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; De inventoribus rerum (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the Anglica Historia, an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the "Father of English History".

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References

    • Taylor, Andrew W. "Taverner, Richard (1505?–1575)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27006.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource:  "Taverner, Richard"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  1. Nancy Canepa. "Straparola, Giovan Francesco (c. 1480–1558)", The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, 3 volumes, edited by Donald Haase, Greenwood Press, 2008, pages 926–927.
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  6. John Reynell Morell (1874). A History of European Literature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. T. J. Allman. p. 106.
  7. Catherine Atkinson (2007). Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum. Mohr Siebeck. p. 86. ISBN   978-3-16-149187-0.