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| | MATTHIEU, Pierre., Unhappy Prosperitie expressed in the Histories of Ælius Sejanus and Philippa the Catanian written ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Sir Thomas Hawkins's version is one of two intended to cast George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in the rôle of Sejanus. |
 | | In 1626 the M.P. Sir John Eliot had been imprisoned in the Tower for comparing Buckingham to Sejanus, but Hawkins and Emondson (or Emerson), translator and publisher of this book, were at liberty to return to the theme in 1634, with Politicall Observations upon the fall of Sejanus, translated from Manzini's Della peripetia di fortuna. |
 | | The subject was clearly of much interest also to Robert Gordon, whose signature is on the upper endpaper of this copy; the Gordonstoun library contained almost a complete set of English translations from Matthieu, including two copies of The Powerfull Favourite. |
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