Lodowick Bryskett
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Lodowick Bryskett was a poet, translator, diplomat and Irish official. He served as Special Ambassador from England to Tuscany in 1600–01.
Bridgetown Abbey, Castletownroche, County Cork, which Bryskett acquired in 1595
The Faerie Queene
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The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at
Lodowick Bryskett
…a beginning to give them a philosophical lecture on the spot. Spenser declines to comply with the request on the ground that he had already undertaken The Faerie Queene, "a work tending to the same effect"; and, finally, the poet invites Bryskett to read to the company his own translation of Giraldo, which Bryskett…
Title page of The Faerie Queene, c. 1590
Holinesse defeats Errour: an illustration from Book I, Part l of an 1895–1897 edition
Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret by William Etty, 1833. Tate Britain, London.
Britomart viewing Artegall by Walter Crane from Book III, Part VII of an 1895–1897 edition