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Vergil, Polydore

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Historian and miscellaneous writer, born at Urbino; was a friend and correspondent of Erasmus; was sent to England by the Pope as deputy-collector of Peter's pence, and was there promoted to ecclesiastical preferments; wrote in Latin an able and painstaking history of England, bringing it down to the year 1538 (1470-1555).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Vergil, Polydore'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​v/vergil-polydore.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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