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 ".

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.

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.

* The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures Of Natural Objects ; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature ( 1789 – 1813 ) with Frederick Polydore Nodder ( artist and engraver ).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The national epic of Rome, the Aeneid of Vergil, tells the story of how the Trojan prince Aeneas came to Italy.

Vergil tells his story through the Arcadian king Evander, founder of Pallantium, who allies with the Trojan immigrants led by Aeneas.

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC ), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

* Publius Vergilius Maro ( Virgil, spelled also as Vergil ; 70 – 19 BC ),

* Hermann Broch – The Death of Virgil ( Der Tod des Vergil )

From prison Vergil sent an abject and " almost blasphemous " letter to Wolsey, begging that the fast-approaching Christmas – a time which witnessed the restitution of a world – might also see his pardon.

The most famous mock-heroic poems in French were Le Vergile Travesti ( The disguised Vergil ) by Paul Scarron ( 1648 – 52 ) and The Maid of Orleans by Voltaire ( 1730 ).

: " Vergil and the Dukos: Hic Inclusus Vitam Perdit, or The Imitations of the King ," Asimov's, September 1997, pp. 102 – 113

Virgil and Vergil are the most common modern English names used for the Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro ( 70 BC – 19 BC ).

However, in the Aeneid, Vergil claims that Mezentius fought in the Italian Wars at the time Aeneas was alive.

Nevertheless, Vergil shows Ascanius ' first experience at war.

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

In 2007 former Clarksville High School basketball star and coach of the team at the time, Vergil Richardson, was at Thanksgiving dinner with five other family members when police stormed the family home arresting Vergil and five of his family members.

In 2007 former Clarksville High School basketball star and coach of the team at the time, Vergil Richardson, was at Thanksgiving dinner with five other family members when police stormed the family home arresting Vergil and five of his family members.

Vergil was born at Urbino, or more probably at Fermignano, within the Duchy of Urbino.

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.

In 1525 Vergil published an edition of Gildas ' 6th-century history, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, probably at Antwerp.

Comprising two volumes, it was presented to the ducal library at Urbino in 1613 by Vergil ’ s grand-nephew.

Denys Hay finds it reasonable to suppose that at first Vergil planned this book to describe events up to 1530, but that he postponed the publication of it due to the political uncertainties in England, enabling him to extend the terminal date.

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.