The French Renaissance in England; An Account of the Literary Relations of England and France in the Sixteenth Century (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LEADING EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH CULTURE AND POLITICS FROM THE BIRTH OF ERASMUS IN 1466 TILL THE DEATH OF SHAKESPEARE IN I6161 France. 1466 [Birth of Erasmus.] 1467 Birth of Bud5. 1468 Death of Alain Chattier. 1470 First printing press in Paris. 1473 University of Bordeaux founded. i477 1479 Birth of Jean Grolier. 1483 Death of Louis XII. Accession of Charles VIII. Birth of Rabelais. [Birth of Luther.] 1484 Birth of Julius Caesar Scaliger ('the elder Scaliger'). 1485 Maistre Pierre Palhelin (written about 1469) first published. 1487 French paraphrase of the Bible published at Paris. 1489 Villon's Le Grand Testament et le Petit. 1493 Birth of Margaret of Angouleme (afterwards Queen Margaret of Navarre). Martial de Paris. Vigilles de. . . Charles Vll. 1494 French invade Italy. [Sebastian Brant, Narrenschijf.) 1496 1497 Birth of Clement MaroL Chris tine de Pisan, La Cite des Dames. La Nefdesfols, verse translation of Brant's satire. 1498 Death of Charles VIII. Acces sion of Louis XII. [Columbus discovers the American con- tinent.] 1499 Gringoire, Le Chateau de Labour. 1500 England. Caxton sets up printing press at Westminster; prints Moral Proverbs of Christine de Pisan. Birth of Sir Thomas More. Death of Edward IV. Accession of Richard III. Death of Richard III. Accession of Henry VII. Linacre goes to Italy. Malory's Le Morte Arthur. James IV becomes King of Scotland. Colet and Erasmus in Paris. [Birth of Holbein.] Erasmus first visits England; resides at Oxford. Barclay's Castell of Labour from Grin- goirc's French. 1 A few events (other than French) of European moment are inserted between square brackets. Where authors' names and...