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John Evelyn FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. [1]
His most noted works include A Discourse of the Adventures of Master FJ (1573), an account of courtly intrigue and one of the earliest English prose fictions; The Supposes, (performed in 1566, printed in 1573), an early translation of Ariosto and the first comedy written in English prose, which was used by Shakespeare as a source for The Taming ...
[3] Among the poems in England's Helicon (1600), signed S.E.D., and included in Dr A.B. Grosart 's collection of Dyer's works ( Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library , vol. iv, 1876) is the charming pastoral "My Phillis hath the morninge sunne," but this comes from the Phillis of Thomas Lodge .
The earliest courtiers coincide with the development of definable courts beyond the rudimentary entourages or retinues of rulers. There were probably courtiers in the courts of the Akkadian Empire where there is evidence of court appointments such as that of cup-bearer which was one of the earliest court appointments and remained a position at courts for thousands of years. [3]
June 23 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet, philosopher, courtier and magician (born 1447) [15] August 9 – Janus Plousiadenos, Greek Renaissance scholar and hymn-writer (born c. 1429) August 10 – Serafino dell'Aquila, Petrarchan poet (born 1466) [16] October 1 – John Alcock, bishop, politician and writer (born c.1430) [17]
Isabella Markham was born on 28 March 1527 [3] in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, England, the daughter of Sir John Markham of Cotham (before 1486- 1559) and his third wife, Anne Strelley. [4] She had two brothers: Thomas, who married Mary Griffin, by whom he had issue, including Sir Griffin Markham ; and William, whose wife was Mary Montagu.
Andreas Capellanus (Capellanus meaning "chaplain"), also known as Andrew the Chaplain (fl. c. 1185), and occasionally by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain, was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore ("About Love"), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests ...
[2] [3] [4] His brother Thomas Shallus was a mapmaker. He was born a year after his father Valentine immigrated to Pennsylvania and was a volunteer in the Revolutionary War . During the Revolutionary War, Shallus fought in Canada after becoming a quartermaster of Pennsylvania's 1st Battalion on January 19, 1776. [ 2 ]