• Polydore Vergil or Virgil (Italian: Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius; c. 1470 – 18 April 1555), widely known as Polydore Vergil...
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    between the city's patron saints. The humanist scholar and historian Polydore Vergil died in Urbino in 1555, and was buried in the cathedral, in the chapel...
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    beauty, but Russell said she was "the fairest of all the King's wives". Polydore Vergil commented that she was "a woman of the utmost charm in both character...
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    Tudor. Very little is known of this child's life. The Tudor historian Polydore Vergil stated this child, whom he did not name, became "a monke of the order...
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    University of California: Longman. p. 102. Vergil, Polydore (2018). The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil, A. D. 1485–1537, edited by D. Hay. University...
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    Wiltshire, have been suggested since early times. The Tudor historian Polydore Vergil appears to have misread the ancient texts for the battle site, as he...
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    contacts with them could have given him the detail of the murder. Polydore Vergil, in his Anglica Historia (c.1513), also specifies that Tyrrell was...
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  • French painter and naturalist Polydore Veirman (1881–1951), Belgian rower who won two Olympic silver medals Polydore Vergil (1470–1555), Italian humanist...
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    from overseas. According to only a single much later Tudor source, Polydore Vergil, Elizabeth's mother made an alliance with Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother...
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  • itself is attested for the first time in the Proverbiorum libellus by Polydore Vergil  (1470-1555). In classical Latin, linea literally means a "linen thread"...
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