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Din-Kariuki, Natalya (2022) Allusions to Horace and Homer on the frontispiece to Coryats Crudities (1611). Notes and Queries, 69 (1). pp. 24-26. gjac015. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjac015 ISSN 0029-3970.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac015
Abstract
Critics writing on Coryats Crudities (1611), an account of Thomas Coryate’s (c. 1577–1617) travels within continental Europe, often attend to its striking frontispiece, engraved by William Hole.1 It includes a portrait of Coryate in an oval frame placed on a plinth and surrounded by three women representing the kingdoms of ‘Gallia, Germania, Italia’, a series of scenes from Coryate’s travels, and the title itself, framed by two classical columns, which reads, Coryats Crudities. Hastily gobbled vp in five Moneths travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; Newly digested in the hungry aire of ODCOMBE in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome.2 This note examines two classical allusions on the frontispiece which seem to have gone unacknowledged, and considers the ways...
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Europe -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Horace -- Criticism and interpretation, Homer | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Notes and Queries | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0029-3970 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 69 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 24-26 | ||||||||
Article Number: | gjac015 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/notesj/gjac015 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Re-use Statement: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Notes and Queries following peer review. The version of record Natalya Din-Kariuki, Allusions to Horace and Homer on the Frontispiece to Coryats Crudities (1611), Notes and Queries, 2022;, gjac015 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac015 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 February 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 February 2024 | ||||||||
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