Note 557 — Chapter XV

Cf. supra, p. 117. The History of the Dukes of Athens too is excellent. John Lydgate in some sort translated the work into English verse: his work is entitled "Here begynnethe the Boke calledde John Bochas descrivinge the falle of princis princessis and other nobles traslatid īto Englissh by John Ludgate mōke of the monastery of Seint Edmundes Bury at the cōmañdemēt of the worthy prynce Humfrey Duke of Gloucestre beginnynge at Adam and endinge with Kinge John made prisoner in fraunce by prince Eduarde" (London, Richard Pynson, 1494). For the story of Filippa la Catanese in English see "Unhappy Prosperitie expressed in the Histories of Sejanus and Philippa the Catanian written in French by P. Mathieu and translated in English by Sr Th. Hawkins" (printed for Io. Haviland for Godfrey Esmondson, 1632).