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, Henry Tudor's official historian, would later record that " King Richard, alone, was killed fighting manfully in the thickest press of his enemies ".

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.

From Roy Ayers in the 1970s to Randy Weston in the 1990s, there have been collaborations which have resulted in albums such as Africa: Centre of the World by Roy Ayers, released on the Polydore label in 1981.

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.

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.

Barthélemy left a number of essays on Oriental languages and archaeology, originally read before the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres ; Les amours de Caryte et de Polydore, a novel illustrating ancient manners ; and Mémoires of his life.

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

Belleforest wrote on cosmography, morals, literature and history, and he translated the works of Matteo Bandello, Boccaccio, Antonio de Guevara, Francesco Guicciardini, Polydore Vergil, Saint Cyprian, Sebastian Münster, Achilles Tatius, Cicero and Demosthenes into French.

The cave is home to Belarius and his " sons " Polydore and Cadwal, whom he raised into great woodsmen.

William Kinnear of Great Britain defeated Polydore Veirman of Belgium in the final, with Kinnear winning the matchup easily.

He also wrote a treatise on verse, the Caesurae uersuum, and a collection of riddles, the Enigmata, influenced greatly by Aldhelm and containing many references to works of Vergil ( the Aeneid, the Georgics, and the Eclogues ).

Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil.

In the novel, renegade biotechnologist Vergil Ulam creates simple biological computers based on his own lymphocytes.

In addition, he unsuccessfully attempted to write an epic about Peter the Great, to be based on the Aeneid by Vergil.

The goal of Gesta Danorum was as Saxo writes " to glorify our fatherland ," which he accomplishes on the model of the Aeneid by Vergil.

In the Aeneid, Vergil has Elymnus competing in the funeral games held on Sicily for Anchises, in the footrace in which Nisus and Euryalus are introduced.

In the Aeneid, Vergil may have based the triple-souled figure of Erulus, king of Praeneste, on Geryon.

The Roman poet Vergil locates her grave on bay at Gaeta, to which she also gives her name ( cf.

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.

Vergil is among the worthies whose portraits were painted in c. 1618-19 on the frieze in what is now the Upper Reading Room of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

The work is notable for the immense industry that went into its compilation, and the range of ancient and modern writers on which Vergil was able to draw.

This treatise, in three books, takes the form of a Latin dialogue between Vergil and his Cambridge friend Robert Ridley on the subject of the natural and the supernatural, and whether such phenomena as prodigious events and portents should be given credence.

Vergil claimed that most of his work on the last book was done contemporaneously, and that the work was interrupted by a visit to Italy.

Vergil claimed to have been very careful in collecting materials for this work, and to have drawn on the work of foreign as well as English historians.

Vergil published a Commentariolum in Dominicam Precem (" Commentary on the Lord's Prayer ") at Basle in 1525, accompanying an edition of the De Inventoribus Rerum.

At Erasmus ’ request, Vergil worked on a translation from the Greek of Dio Chrysostom's De Perfecto Monacho, which he published in 1533.

In the story, Dante is drawn out by his brother Vergil, who is attempting to reopen the portal to the demon world in order to obtain the full power of Sparda, which remains on the other side contained within the sword Force Edge.

The portraits show Vergil sitting on a chair between a lectern and a locked chest.