The dial of princes
By: compiled by the reuerend father in God, Don Antony of Gueuara, Byshop of Guadix ... ; Englished out of the French by Thomas North ... ; and nowe newly reuised and corrected by hym, refourmed of faultes escaped in the first edition ; with an amplification also of a fourth booke annexed to the same, entituled The fauoured courtier, neuer heretofore imprinted in our vulgare tongue ...
Contributors: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Tottel, Richard, d. 1594, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Nowe newly imprinted by Richarde Tottill
Published: 1582
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180.; Education of princes -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: North's translation, first published in 1557, although professedly from the French, was made in large measure from the Spanish original. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
STC (2nd ed.) 12429
"Dial for princes, or Marcus Aurelius' first published in 1529 ... is a kind of romance, founded on the life and character of Marcus Aurelius ... its purpose being to place before the Emperor Charles the Fifth the model of a prince more perfect for wisdom and virtue than any other of antiquity."--Ticknor, Hist. of Span. lit., v. 2, p. 16.
Signatures: [roman]A-[roman]C⁸ [roman]D⁶ A-3N⁸ 3O⁴.