biography
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Vergil, Polydore
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Ital Polidoro Vergilio
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pronunciation:
[verjil]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1470–1555)
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| biography:
| Writer of a history of England, born in Urbino, EC Italy. Educated at Bologna and Padua, he became a priest, and was sent to England by Pope Alexander VI as deputy-collector of Peter's Pence (1501). He became Archdeacon of Wells (1508), and in 1513 a prebendary of St Paul's, having been naturalized in 1510. He is best known for his great Historiae anglicae libri XXVI (Twenty-six Books of English History) which by an order of the Privy Council (1582) became required reading in English schools. About 1550 he returned to Italy. |
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