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Gabriel Harvey and the Two Thomas Watsons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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Among the books which Gabriel Harvey ‘enriched with marginal annotations like precious gems or stars,’ as his caricaturist wrote with more-than-intended accuracy, was his copy of four tragedies by Lodovico Dolce. The first half of this volume, containing Medea and Thieste is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, its existence duly noted but its marginalia unexamined by Harvey specialists.
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1 Cited in Wilson, Harold S., ‘Gabriel Harvey's Method of Annotating His Books,’ Harvard Library Bulletin H, 3 (Autumn 1948), 346 Google Scholar. Wilson gives this translation together with a longer passage in the original from the anonymous Latin comedy Pedantius, in which Harvey is satirized.
2 Both issued by Domenico Farri, Venetia, 1566.
3 Moore, G. C. Smith never saw the item but listed it with some inaccuracies in GabrielHarvey's Marginalia(Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1913)Google Scholar, 82, and again in ’Printed Books with Harvey, Gabriel's Autograph or MS. Notes,’ Modern Language Review XXIX (1934)Google Scholar, 68. Samuel Tannenbaum, W. A. Jackson, and Moore Smith's other successors ignored it, and although the late H. S. Wilson may have intended eventually to describe it, he did not include it with the other Folger-owned Harvey items analyzed in ‘Harvey's Method,’ cited above.
4 See Cecioni, Cesare G., Primi Studi su Thomas Watson(Catania, 1964), p. 49 Google Scholar, for support of this early date of birth.
5 Quotedin Thomas Watson, Poems, viz.:—The Hekatompathia [Greek transliterated] or Passionate Centurie of Love [1582] Meliboeus, sivè Ecloga Inobitum, etc. 1590. An Eglogue uponthe death of Right Honorable Sir Francis Walsingham. 1590. The Teares of Fancy or Love disdained. Posthumously published in 1593. From the unique copy in the collection of hristie-Miller, S., Esq. Carefully Edited by Edward Arber … (London, 1870), pp. 6–7 Google Scholar.
6 The Works of Thomas Nashe. Edited from the original Texts By McKerrow, Ronald B..Reprintedfrom the original edition with corrections and supplementary notes. Edited by F. P. Wilson (Oxford, 1958)Google Scholar, n, 317; ra, 320.
7 The Hekatompathia [Greek transliterated] Or Passionate Century of Love (1582) By Watson, Thomas. A Facsimile Reproduction With An Introduction By S. K. Heninger, Jr. (Gainesville, 1964), p. 3 Google Scholar.
8 Ibid., p. 93.
9 ‘Fasti Oxoniensis,’ Athenae Oxonienses … (London, 1691) I, 710.
10 See Cecioni, Primi Studi, pp. 14-17, for an account of Park's multiple contribution to Watson scholarship.
11 Athenae Oxonienses … A New Edition …By Philip Bliss (London, 1813), 1, 602.
12 A Humanist's ‘Trew Imitation’: Thomas Watson's Absalom. A Critical Edition andTranslation (Urbana, 1964), p. 13.
13 Wilson, ‘Harvey's Method,’ p. 349.
14 Harvey is not mistakenly stating the dates of Dolce's and Tasso's deaths, but rather, the years in which they flourished, according to Contarini. In the Vicenza edition of 1607, these passages are on pp. 460 and 467, respectively.
15 Quoted by Moore Smith, Marginalia, p. 166.