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Some Notes of Gabriel Harvey's in Hoby's Translation of Castiglione's Courtier (1561)
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A man's notes in his favourite books must have an interest quite distinct from that of the revelation of himself disclosed in what he invents or composes of his own motion. He is taken, as it were, unawares. The receptive and responsive regions of his intelligence under the touch of another mind are revealed in the passages that strike him, as in the annotations and reflections suggested to him. The reader who comes upon a volume so annotated may promise himself a new, probably a more intimate view of its quondam owner; aridity or abundance may equally surprise him. It is, then, with a sense of adventure that he will embark upon the perusal of notes like those of Gabriel Harvey in a book of such vogue and effect as the famous Courtier of Baldesare Castiglione, “fine Castilio,” as Harvey himself calls him.
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page 608 note 1 Sonnet xii. Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets. Works (ed. Grosart), i. p. 245.
page 608 note 2 The / Courtyer of / Count Baldessar Ca/stilio; divided into / foure bookes. / Very necessary & profita/ble for yonge Gentilmen; and Gentil/women abiding in Court, Palaice / or Place; done into Englyshe / by Thomas Ho/by. Imprinted at London by Wyllyam Seres / at the signe of the Hedg/hogge, 1561.
page 609 note 1 Fol. Yy iij vọ.
page 609 note 2 Fol. Yy iiij rọ.
page 610 note 1 Dict. of Nat. Biog.
page 610 note 2 Fols. A ij rọ and vọ; C iiij vọ; D iij rọ; E iiij rọ; H ij vọ and iij vọ; R j vọ; Ff j rọ; Qq j rọ; Zz j rọ.
page 610 note 3 Fols. F iiij vọ; G iij rọ; H iij vọ; Dd iiij rọ; Ii ij vọ and iij vọ; Kk iiij rọ; Ll ij rọ; Nn iiij rọ; Vv iiij vọ.
page 610 note 4 Fols. B j rọ and iij rọ; F ij rọ; K j rọ; Pp ij rọ; Vv j rọ.
page 611 note 1 Fol. Yy iiij rọ.
page 611 note 2 Fol. Vij vọ.
page 611 note 3 Fol. Zz ij vọ.
page 611 note 4 Fol. L i vọ.
page 611 note 5 Fol. E ij vọ.
page 611 note 6 Fol. H. ij vọ.
page 611 note 7 Fol. R ij rọ.
page 611 note 8 Fol. Zz j rọ.
page 612 note 1 Fol. Z iij vọ.
page 612 note 2 Cf. Gregory Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays, ii, p. 434.
page 612 note 3 Fol. Vv ij rọ.
page 612 note 4 Fols. Dd ij vọ and iij rọ. Two or three indecipherable words follow.
page 613 note 1 Fols. Yy iii vọ and [Zz v rọ]. Cf. infra.
page 613 note 2 Balthasaris Castilionis Comitis de Curiali sive Aulico Libri quatuor, ex Italico sermone in Latinum conversi, Bartholomeo Gierke Anglo Cantabrigiensi interprete. London, 1571. B. M. Cat. 8403 b. 29.
page 613 note 3 La civil conversatione del sig. Stephano Guazzo, gentilhuomo di Casale di Montferrato, divisa in quattro libri. Brescia, Tomaso Bozzola, 1574. It was translated into English in 1581. The civile Conversation, translated by George Pettie, divided into foure Bookes. London, 1581.
page 613 note 4 In the possession of the British Museum, 711 a. 25. It contains ms. notes by Harvey.
page 613 note 5 De Arte Natandi Libri duo, quorum Prior regulas ipsius artis, posterior vero praxin demonstrationemque continet. London, 1587. B. M. Cat. 1040. d. 19.
page 613 note 6 The Court of civil courtesy fitlie furnished with a pleasant Port of stately Phrases and pithie Precepts. Out of the Italian, by S. R. gent. (probably Samuel Rowlands). London, 1591 (Lowndes).
page 613 note 7 G. di Grassi, his true Arte of Defence, plainly teaching how a Man. … may safelie handle all sortes of Weapons. … with a Treatise of Disceit or Falsinge, and with a Waie or Meane by private Industrie to obtaine Strengthe, Judgement and Activilie. Englished by I. G. gentleman. (Edited by T. Churchyard.) For I I, London, 1594. B. M. Cat. G. 2. 333. The original was published twenty-four years earlier; Ragione di adoprar sicuramente l'arme si da offesa come da difesa. Venice, 1570.
page 614 note 1 Fol. A ij vọ (pref.).
page 614 note 2 Petri Bizzari varia opuscula. Aldus. Venitiis MDLXV. Bib. Nat. ms. Rés. Z 2732.
page 614 note 3 A report & discourse, written by Roger Ascham of the affaires and state of Germany and the emperour Charles his court, durying certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there. London, [1553]. B. M. Cat. 33. b. 27.
page 614 note 4 A new booke containing the arte of ryding and breakinge great Horses. … [1560] B. M. Cat. 56. a. 22. It was a translation of Frederico Grisone's Gli ordini di cavalcare. Napoli, 1550. B. M. Cat. 1040. k. 8 (1). Blundevil later revised this book and used it as Part II of a larger work; The fower chiefyst offices belongyng to Horsemanshippe. … paynfully collected out of a nomber of aucthours. … By Tho. Blundeuil. … London, n. d. (Pt. III dated 1565, Pt. IV 1566.). B. M. Cat. 43. d. 28.
Harvey's quotation, not verbatim, is actually not from the dedicatory letter, but from the Chapter to the reader. “And you shall haue very good Cause also to be thankful unto my deare frende. … house. By whose daily practising. … Grison his book, I sawe him, without ye helpe. … horses, and especially that whiche he calleth his Balle, unto such perfection. … lyke.” The commendation of Astley's other qualities is as follows: “In hope that other men woulde with like diligence use the like exercise, wishing all gentelmen lacking his qualities, to be his like in dede. And that not only in this exercise, but also in many other his vertuous exercises, as well of minde as of body. A v rọ and vọ.
page 615 note 1 The art of riding set foorth in a breefe treatise with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon and Gryson. … written by (G. B.) a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art. London, 1584. B. M. Cat. 58. b. 8.
page 615 note 2 Works, ed. Grosart, ii, p. 99.
page 615 note 3 Cf. Works, ed. Giles (1864), iii, p. 3.
page 616 note 1 Fol. 132 vọ and 133 rọ.
page 617 note 1 Fol. C iii rọ.
page 617 note 2 Fol. zz iiij rọ.
page 617 note 3 Fol. H. iij rọ.
page 617 note 4 Works, ii, pp. 96 and 97.
page 618 note 1 Sonnet xiii. His Intercession to Fame. in Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets. Works, i, p. 246.
page 618 note 2 Fol. X iiij vọ.
page 618 note 3 Four Letters and certain Sonnets. The third letter. Works, i, p. 183.
page 618 note 4 Ibid., p. 194.
page 618 note 5 Fol. S iij rọ.
page 619 note 1 Op. cit., passim.
page 619 note 2 Gregory Smith, Elizabethan Critical Essays, ii, p. 323.
page 619 note 3 Howland took his Master's degree in 1564, two years before Harvey matriculated. He was Master of St. John's from 1577 on, during the years that Harvey was Fellow of Pembroke and of Trinity. (D. N. B.).
page 619 note 4 Fol. X j rọ.
page 619 note 5 Fol. V iij vọ.
page 619 note 6 Fol. Vv j vọ.
page 620 note 1 Fol. TT j rọ.
page 620 note 2 Fol. Xx iiij vọ.
page 620 note 3 Fol. Zz j vọ.
page 620 note 4 Fol. D iij vọ.
page 620 note 5 Fol. N j vọ.
page 620 note 6 Fol. R j vọ.
page 620 note 7 Fol. Nn iij rọ.
page 620 note 8 Fol. F iiij rọ.
page 620 note 9 Voce canorus, voce valens, are the phrases of Eobanus, Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis Homeri Ilias. … Latino carmine reddita. Bâle, 1540. Other editions, 1543 and 1549.
page 621 note 1 Fol. P. ij vọ.
page 621 note 2 Fol. Yy iij vọ.
page 621 note 3 Fol. Zz iij rọ.
page 621 note 4 The version of these lines (the 97th and 98th) in the sixteenth-century edition reads:
…. ille vero beatus quemcunque Musae
Ament. suavis ei ab ore fluit vox.
The first edition differs somewhat, but it is no nearer Harvey's:
…. felix quem denique Musae
Observant. huius dulcis favus exit ab ore.
page 621 note 5 Fol. O j vọ.
page 622 note 1 Sententiae, included in Ex veterum comicorum fabulis, quae integrae non extant sententiae Nunc primum in sermonem Latinum conversae. … Parisiis MDLIII. Apud Guil Morelium. B. M. Cat. 683. b. 1.
page 622 note 2 Fols. R ij vọ, and iij rọ.
page 622 note 3 Fol. H iiij vọ.
page 623 note 1 Fol. Q iiij vọ.
page 623 note 2 Fol. Yy iij vọ.
page 623 note 3 Fol. T iij rọ.
page 623 note 4 Fol. F. ij rọ. Harvey expressed admiration for Osorius also in his published work. Cf. Gregory Smith, ii, p. 433.
page 623 note 5 Fol. F ij rọ.
Cur te vana juuant miserae ludibria chartae?
Hoc lege, quod possis dicere jure, meum est.
Martialis.
Parum sepultae distat Inertiae, Celata Virtus.
Horatius.
page 624 note 1 Fol. Aa ij rọ.
page 624 note 2 Fol. R ij vọ.
page 624 note 3 On fols. Y ij rọ and iij rọ.
Dic. Huccine in oras
Italicas, Francasque, tibi transmittere certum est?
Cerium, inquit Dominus; bene factum jam jam habet ille
Vultum Itali, &ct.
, vel gratulationis Valdinensis. Pars secunda De vullu Itali. Works, i, xxxvi.page 625 note 2 Fol. F ij rọ.
page 626 note 1 Fol. Y. j rọ.
page 626 note 2 Cf. Works, i, p. 230, ii, p. 46.
page 626 note 3 Fols. D iiij rọ and vọ.
page 626 note 4 Fol. D iiij rọ.
page 626 note 5 Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Medici de Subtilitate libri XXI. Bâle [1560], p. 1123.
page 627 note 1 Fol. Zz iiij vọ. The reference is not, as might be supposed, to the grammarian Baldus, author of the Regulae Baldi (Biella, 1572. B. M. Cat. C. 33 f. 14). Nor have I been able to find the lines elsewhere. Harvey noted the initials J. C., (which might be taken for F. C. were the hand other than Harvey's), several times also in his copy of Guazzo. John Cheke suggests itself as a possible interpretation; but I have not able to find the lines.
page 627 note 2 Thomas Sackevylle in commendation of the worke to the reader. Fol. A (pref.) ij vọ.
page 627 note 3 Thomas Sackvillus D. Buckhurst Bartholomeo Clerke. Fol. B. ij vọ of the volume cit. supra.
page 627 note 4 Cf. supra.
page 627 note 5 Fol. Zz j rọ.
page 627 note 6 Cf. infra.
page 627 note 7 Cf. Gregory Smith, op. cit., i, p. 116; ii, pp. 260 and 276.
page 628 note 1 Fol. vij vọ.
page 628 note 2 Correctly: p. 182 of Paris ed. 1852.
page 628 note 3 Fol. Zz ij vọ.
page 628 note 4 Cf. supra. Harvey mentions in his Letter-book another work by this author, later translated: Guatzoes New Discourses of courteous behaviour. Works, i, p. 137.
page 628 note 5 Fol. Yy iij rọ.
page 628 note 6 He quotes from a marginal reference, not from the page. Harvey marked and underlined this phrase both in the margin and in the index under Cortegiani, in his own copy: La civil Conversatione del S. Stefano Guazzo. … Divisa in IIII libri. … In Venetia. … MDLXXXI. Harvey wrote his name, Gabrielis Haruey, on the title-page just above the printer's mark. Cf. supra.
page 629 note 1 Fol. B j rọ.
page 629 note 2 Pp. 229–231 in the edition of 1581.
page 629 note 3 Trattato. … nel quale. … si ragiona de modi. che si debbona ò tenere ò schifare nelle commune conversatione cognominato Gala. Venice, 1558. Milan, 1559. B. M. Cat. 1063. b. 2 (1). It was translated into English in 1576 by Robert Peterson (Lowndes).
page 629 note 4 Fol. E j vọ.
page 629 note 5 Works, i, p. 137.
page 629 note 6 Letter to Spenser. Three proper wittie & familiar Letters. Works, i, p. 84.
page 630 note 1 Works, ii, p. 99.
page 630 note 2 V. supra, note.
page 630 note 3 Fol. Zz ij vọ.
page 630 note 4 It was published in 1590.
page 631 note 1 Pierce's Supererogation, Works, ii, p. 99.
page 631 note 2 Fol. P ij rọ.
page 631 note 3 Fol. Dd ij rọ.
page 631 note 4 Fol. Zz iij rọ.
page 631 note 5 Fol. P. iiij vọ.
page 631 note 6 Fol. Z iiij vọ.
page 631 note 7 The deceyte of women to the instruction and ensample of all men, yonge and olde, newly corrected. s. l. n. d. [London, 1490]. B. M. Cat. C. 20c. 31.
page 632 note 1 Written on the final blank page.
page 632 note 2 Fol. A iij vọ.
page 632 note 3 Cf. Works, i, p. 125.
page 632 note 4 Fol. A iiij rọ.
page 632 note 5 Fol. A iiij vọ.
page 632 note 6 For example, fols. L iij vọ; Cc j rọ; Kk ij rọ; Kk iij rọ.
page 632 note 7 Fol. B iij vọ.
page 632 note 8 Fols. Kk ij vọ and Kk iij rọ.
page 632 note 9 Fol. Kk ij rọ.
page 632 note 10 Fol. X j vọ. He adds, “vide X iij b,” but the bearing of this reference is not obvious.
page 633 note 1 Fol. Y ij rọ.
page 633 note 2 Fol. Zz i vọ.
page 633 note 3 Fol. M j rọ.
page 633 note 4 Fol. C iij rọ.
page 633 note 5 Fol. Yy iiij rọ.
page 633 note 6 Fol. Zz j vọ.
page 633 note 7 Fol. Zz ij rọ.
page 633 note 8 Fol. Zz ij vọ.
page 633 note 9 Fol. Zz iiij vọ.
page 634 note 1 Fol. H ij vọ.
page 634 note 2 Fol. H ij rọ.
page 634 note 3 Fol H iiij rọ.
page 634 note 4 Fol. Yy iiij vọ.
page 634 note 5 Fol. Zz [v] vọ.
page 635 note 1 Fol. Yy iiij vọ.
page 635 note 2 Fol. Yy iij vọ.
page 636 note 1 Fol. Zz j rọ.
page 636 note 2 Fol. Yy iiij vọ.
page 636 note 3 Fol. Zz j rọ.
page 636 note 4 Fol. Yy iij vọ.
page 636 note 5 Fol. Zz j rọ.
page 636 note 6 Letter-book: Works, i, 123.
page 636 note 7 Fol. Yy iiij vọ.
page 637 note 1 Fol. Y iij rọ.
page 637 note 2 Fol. Zz j rọ.
page 637 note 3 Fol. G j vọ.
page 637 note 4 V. supra.
page 637 note 5 Fol. Xx iiij rọ.
page 637 note 6 The fourth and last.
page 637 note 7 Fol. Yy ij rọ.
page 637 note 8 Fol. Aa j rọ.
page 638 note 1 Fol. zz iiij vọ.
page 638 note 2 Fol. Zz ij rọ.
page 638 note 3 Ibid.
page 638 note 4 Fol. Zz ij vọ. This note lacks consistency in handwriting and even in the ink used. The first two lines, though varying from one another in size of writing, appear to have been written at one time; the final two at another.
page 638 note 5 Fol. Aa iiij rọ.
page 639 note 1 Fol. Y iiij rọ.
page 639 note 2 Fol. Z ij rọ.