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| | §4. The First Dated Book issued in England"The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers". XIII. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The translator, Anthony Wodville, earl Rivers, while on a voyage to the shrine of St. James of Compostella, in 1473, was lent by the famous knight Lewis de Bretaylles a manuscript of Les ditz moraulx des philosophes by Guillaume de Tignoville. |
 | | With this, the earl was so pleased that he borrowed the volume and, on his return to England, set about the translation. |
 | | This, when finished, was handed to Caxton to oversee. He revised the book with the French version and added an amusing epilogue, pointing out that the earl, for some reason, had omitted the remarks of Socrates concerning women, which he, therefore, had added himself. |
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