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  A myrroure for magistrates Wherein may be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperitie is founde, even of those, whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Anno. 1559.
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  1559
  

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  Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563? ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.
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  By William Baldwin and others. In verse. A continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum". A revised edition of: A memorial of suche ...
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  Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij.Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth
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  1490
  

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  Virgil. Aeneis. ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium. ; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.
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  A translation of a French version by Guillaume Le Roy of an Italian paraphrase of parts of the "Aeneid" by Virgil and "De casibus illustrium virorum" by Giovanni Boccaccio. Title from colophon. With Caxton's mark on L7v. ...
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  The last part of the Mirour for magistrates wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, vvith howe greenous [sic] plagues, vyces are punished in great princes & magistrats, and hovv frayle and vnstable vvorldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.
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  1578
  

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  Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563? ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.
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  Attributed to William Baldwin by STC (2nd ed.). In verse. A continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum". The first two parts of "A ...
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  Vnhappy prosperitie expressed in the histories of Ælius Seianus and Philippa the Catanian· Written in French by P: Mathieu and translated into English by Sr. Th: Hawkins
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  1632
  

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  Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621. ; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640. ; Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621. Histoire des prosperitez malheureuses d'une femme cathenoise, grande seneschalle de Naples. English. aut ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.
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  A translation of: Aelius Sejanus, histoire romaine. The title page is engraved. Translated as a satire on the fall of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The translation differs from STC 17664 and 17665, but appears to ...
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