Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

But the rediscovery of the works of Tacitus during the Renaissance allowed Polydore Vergil to reintroduce her into British history as " Voadicea " in 1534.

So, for example, the 16th-century humanist scholar Polydore Vergil famously rejected the claim that Arthur was the ruler of a post-Roman empire, found throughout the post-Galfridian medieval " chronicle tradition ", to the horror of Welsh and English antiquarians.

Polydore Vergil and Thomas More expanded on this portrayal, emphasising Richard's outward physical deformities as a sign of his inwardly twisted mind.

More's work, and that of contemporary historian Polydore Vergil, reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing style ; for example, the shadowy King Richard is an outstanding, archetypal tyrant drawn from the pages of Sallust, and should be read as a meditation on power and corruption as well as a history of the reign of Richard III.

* April 18 – Polydore Vergil, English historian ( b. 1470 )

* August – Polydore Vergil completes De inventoribus rerum, the first modern history of inventions.

Polydore Vergil tells of how the young Joan of Kent, Countess of Salisbury – allegedly the king's favourite at the time – accidentally dropped her garter at a ball at Calais.

He had to obtain the approval of King Henry VIII of England, the Pope through the intermediary Polydore Vergil, and the Bishop of Ely to suppress the religious hospital and convert it to a college.

The Italian historian Polydore Vergil said that some of the English royal council objected to the match, saying that it would bring the Stewarts directly into the line of English succession, to which the wily and astute Henry replied :" What then?

Polydore Vergil, in his Anglica Historia ( circa 1513 ), specifies that Tyrrell was the murderer, stating that he " rode sorrowfully to London " and committed the deed with reluctance, upon Richard III's orders, and that Richard himself spread the rumours of the princes ' death in the belief that it would discourage rebellion.

After the despatch of Richard, who had gone into battle crowned, Polydore Vergil records that the fallen coronet was retrieved and placed by Lord Stanley on his stepson ’ s head before his cheering troops, thereby emphasing the critical role the Stanleys had played in bringing Henry Tudor to the throne.

Polydore Vergil appears to have suggested that Leland had been unrealistically over-ambitious: he was " a vaynegloryouse persone, whyche woulde promyse more, than ever he was able or intended to perfourme ".

He therefore took offence when the Italian scholar Polydore Vergil cast doubts on certain elements in the Arthurian legend in his Anglica Historia ( published in 1534 ).

Another version of what happened was given by three Tudor sources: The Grand Chronicle of London, Polydore Vergil and Edward Hall.

** Polydore Vergil – Adagia

** Polydore Vergil – De inventoribus rerum

Polydore Vergil ( c. 1470 – 1555 ), in his De Rerum Inventoribus, writes that it was customary to make the Sign of the Cross over one's mouth, since " alike deadly plague was sometime in yawning, wherefore men used to fence themselves with the sign of the cross ... which custom we retain at this day.

The Tudor historian Polydore Vergil appears to have misread the ancient texts for the battle site as he places it at Abyndoniam ( Abingdon ) instead of Edington.

The chronicler Polydore Vergil made some use of Boece for his 1534 Historia Anglica.

Douglas was educated at St Salvator's College, St Andrews and was a friend and correspondent of many of the internationally renowned men of his age, including Polydore Vergil, John Major, Cardinal Wolsey and Henry, 3rd Lord Sinclair.

Polidoro Virgili, commonly latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil ( or Virgil ), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino ( c. 1470 – 18 April 1555 ) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat who spent most of his life in England.

There is a long tradition of histories being written or published under official patronage: they include, for example, the Anglica Historia ( drafted by 1513 and published in 1534 ), a history of England written by Polydore Vergil at the request of King Henry VII ; and William Camden's Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha ( 1615-1627 ), a history of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

During the closing years of exile he was on intimate terms with the historian Polydore Virgil, and one of his last acts was to arrange to give Polydore a corrected version of Major's account of Scottish affairs.

He was referred to as the " English Achilles "; the historian Polydore Vergil called him " a man of singular valour, constancy, and gravity.

Professor Tim Murray writes that this Trojan foundation myth was not challenged until Polydore Vergil, historian of the early Tudor dynasty, questioned it in the 16th century.

He was succeeded by Adrian de Castello ( 1504-18 ) who was an absentee bishop, under whom the see was administered by Polydore Vergil the noted historian.

Among eminent men who have been associated with the cathedral – besides those who have already been mentioned – are Robert of Gloucester, the chronicler, prebendary in 1291 ; Nicholas of Hereford, chancellor in 1377, a remarkable man and leader of the Lollards at Oxford ; John Carpenter, town clerk of London who baptized there on December 18, 1378 ; Polydore Vergil, prebendary in 1507, a celebrated literary man, as indeed with such a name he ought to have been ; and Miles Smith, prebendary in 1580, promoted to the See of Gloucester – one of the translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

* The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil, Books 23-25 on Richard III.

Vergil is sometimes referred to in contemporary documents as Polydore Vergil Castellensis or Castellen, and it has sometimes been assumed that he was a kinsman of his patron, Cardinal Adriano Castellesi.

Polydore was educated at the University of Padua, and possibly at Bologna.

Although he stated in the preface that it was of the hand of Polydore Vergil, there has been some debate about the authorship of the work.

In continental Europe, Vergil is principally remembered for the Inventoribus Rerum and the Adagia: these are the works which secured his reputation before he ever came to England, and which he himself regarded as his masterpieces, writing " I, Polydore, was the first of the Romans to treat of these two matters ".

Owen was taken from her and raised by the monks and according to his nephew Henry VII's personal historian Vergil the child was raised as a monk by the name Edward Bridgewater where he lived until his death in 1502.

As an established author, and a representative of Italian humanist learning, Vergil was received in England as a minor celebrity, and was welcomed at court by King Henry VII.

Early in 1515 ( through the intrigues of Andrea Ammonio, who sought the subcollectorship for himself ), an ill-considered letter from Vergil was intercepted, which reflected badly on both Wolsey and Henry VIII ; and as a result in April he was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

The latter is the more probable possibility: Vergil would probably have wanted to present a fine manuscript to Henry VIII instead of a printed book and since Veterani was the most famous copyist of the time it would make sense that Vergil asked him to do it: however, no such copy by Veterani is known.

However, Vergil added a new book ( XXVII ) giving an account of Henry VIII ’ s reign up to 1537, which included a highly critical portrait of Wolsey.

Other than the historian Livy, the most remarkable writers of the period were the poets Vergil, Horace, and Ovid.

* April 18-Polydore Vergil, Tudor historian ( born c. 1470 )

Their plan, or construction, of a pile of mountains atop which they would confront the gods is described differently according to the author ( including Homer, Vergil, and Ovid ), and occasionally changed by translators.

Vergil thought that this addition would probably be a popular one, but it was also a concession towards critics who had labelled the De Inventoribus a work of heretics and depravity.

A possible explanation is that Vergil left it in the care of Veterani, who inscribed the colophon to associate it with his other treasures so that it would not be lost or damaged during the Papal invasion in Urbino in 1516.