A treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses vvith other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune
Subtitle: together with their most detestable [and] wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan Iohn Lidgate monke of Burye.
Contributors: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Edition: And nowe newly imprynted, corrected, and augmented out of diuerse and sundry olde writen copies in parchment.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 176:2.
Publisher: In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio
Published: 1554
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Kings and rulers -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Poetry; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: De casibus illustrium virorum.; Treatise excellent and compendious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses with other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of unstedfast fortune.
Work titles: De casibus virorum illustrium.
Notes: A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.

Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the. x. day of September in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1554.

"The daunce of Machabree", quire 2[par.] at end.

The last leaf is misnumbered CCxxiiii.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed) 3177.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1943. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 176:2).