The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction

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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: INTERCHAPTER Though the material facts concerning Renaissance translations and editions of the Greek Romances have already been presented in tabular form (ante, pp. 8-10), it may be not superfluous to add some further particulars bearing upon the accessibility of the chief of these Romances to Elizabethan writers, a

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nd to characterize briefly at least one of the Elizabethan translations -- Day's paraphrase of Amyot's version of " Daphnis and Chloe."1 Heliodorus, first printed in 1534 at Basel, ex officina Hervaegiana, with a preface by Opso- poeus,2 was first translated by Amyot (Paris, 1547"; Folio). It was not this French translation, however, but Warschewiczki's translation into Latin (Basel, 1551), which served as theoriginal of the English version by Thomas Un- derdowne; who " owed no debt to Amyot," but " follows the ingenious Warschewiczki into his every error." 1 Underdowne's Heliodorus, with its errors and quaint- nesses, and its occasional splendor of diction, has been adequately treated in Mr. Whibley's introduction to the " Tudor Translation " reprint. 2 Whibley, p. xiv ; Script. Erot., p. iii. 1 Brunei, and Grasse, both s. v. " Heliodorus "; Jacobs, Friedrich, "Einleitung" to his translation, p. 14 n.; Sandys, II. 195; Dunlop, II. 404; Warren, 58. A second edition, Paris, 1549, mentioned as such by Brunet, Grasse, and Jacobs (as above), is said by Lenglet, II. 9, and by Koert- ing, I. 26, to be the first; while Whibley, p. xv, dates the first edition 1559. This date is certainly incorrect; the title page of the edition of 1559 (fol.) in the Columbia University Library plainly declares it to be " de nouueau reueue

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