• DOI:10.1086/pbsa.94.2.24304350
• Corpus ID: 163336002

Sir Thomas North's Marginalia in His "Dial of Princes"

@article{Quinn2000SirTN,
  title={Sir Thomas North's Marginalia in His "Dial of Princes"},
  author={Kelly Quinn},
  journal={The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America},
  year={2000},
  volume={94},
  pages={283 - 287}
}

• K. Quinn
• Published 1 June 2000
• History
• The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Sir Thomas North (i535?-i6oi?) is best remembered as the mediator be tween Plutarch and Shakespeare: as every introduction to the Roman plays notes, the playwright relied heavily on North's 1579 translation of Plutarch's Lives. Over twenty years earlier, in 1557, however, North had Englished The Dial of Princes, made from Antonio de Guevara's popular Spanish work Relox de Principes} Although in the long run The Dial was less influential than the Lives, it enjoyed popularity in the years following the first edition, with two subsequent editions appearing in North's lifetime (1568 and 1582), and a fourth nearly two decades after his death, in 1619. The Cambridge University Library holds a most interesting copy of the 1582 edition, published by Richard Tottell: North's own copy, complete with