Thomas Twyne (1543 – 1 August 1613

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) was an

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translator and a physician of

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, best known for completing

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's translation of

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into English verse after Phaer's death in 1560, and for his 1579 English translation of ''

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'', a collection of 253 Latin dialogues written by the humanist

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(1304–1374), commonly known as Petrarch. Thomas was the son of

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(c.1500-1581) of

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, himself a translator, schoolmaster, noted collector of

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manuscripts and author of the Commentary ''De Rebus Albionicis'' (London, 1590). Tywne's son,

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, became the first Keeper of the Archives of the

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. Thomas was a native of

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and was educated at

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. He acted in the

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version of ''

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'', put on before

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in 1566, on which occasion the stage collapsed, killing and injuring a number of people. He enjoyed the patronage of Lord Buckhurst and greatly admired

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and his mystic philosophy.

Epitaph

In St. Anne's Church on the hill at Lewes. The historian

Thomas Walker Horsfield Rev. Thomas Walker Horsfield FSA (christened 2 December 1792, Sheffield - 26 August 1837, Chowbent, Lancashire), was an English Nonconformist minister, topographer, and historian best known for his works ''The History and Antiquities of Lewes ...

, F.S.A. (1792–1837) translated the rather florid Latin inscription: :''Hippocrates saw Twyne lifeless and his bones slightly covered with earth. Some of his sacred dust (says he) will be of use to me in removing diseases; for the dead, when converted into medicine, will expel human maladies, and ashes prevail against ashes. Now the physician is absent, disease extends itself on every side, and exults its enemy is no more. Alas! here lies our preserver Twyne; the flower and ornament of his age. Sussex deprived of her physician, languished, and is ready to sink along with him. Believe me, no future age will produce so good a physician and so renowned a man as this has. He died at Lewes in 1613, on 1 August, in the tenth climacteric.'' ''

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'', by

E. V. Lucas Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor. Born to a Quaker family in Eltham, on the fringes of London, Luca ...

A modern edition of forty-six of

Petrarch Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited w ...

's dialogues, ''Phisicke Against Fortune'', was published in 1993.

Books

* Humphrey Lloyd (Llwyd, Lhuyd), Humphrey (1527–1568), ''Commentarioli Descriptionis Britannicae Fragmentum'' (Cologne, 1572), translated into English by Thomas Twyne as ''The Breviary of Britayne'' (London, 1573) *Pierre Drouet's work translated by Thomas Twyne as ''A new counsell against the plague'' (1578) *

Maffeo Vegio Maffeo Vegio ( la, Maphaeus Vegius) (1407–1458) was an Italian poet who wrote in Latin; he is regarded by many as the finest Latin poet of the fifteenth century. Born near Lodi, he studied at the University of Pavia, and went on to write some ...

, ''Supplement to the Twelfth Book of the Aeneid'' as translated by Thomas Twyne, 1584

References

External links

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