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Sidney and Pietro Bizari
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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The name of Pietro Bizari has been linked with that of Sir Philip Sidney since 1633, when a duodecimo volume published in Frankfort appeared with a fulsome title
These letters, written by the learned Huguenot Hubert Languet, senior diplomat in the service of August, Elector of Saxony, became renowned for reasons other than the eminence of Languet and his protégé, Sidney.
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1 Bizari's years in England earned for him three columns in the Dictionary of National Biography. The modern authority is Dr. Massimo Firpo of Turin, who has kindly supplied new and correct information about Bizari, contained in his paper on ‘Bizari's La Storia delta Guerre D'Ungheria’ (delivered in Venice in June 1970.
2 For a description see ‘New Light on Sir Philip Sidney’ by James M. Osborn, Times (London) Literary Supplement, April 30, 1970. Full translations will be given in Young Philip Sidney to be published by the Yale University Press, spring 1972.
3 An unidentified member of the illustrious Imhof (or Imhoff) family of Augsburg.
4 A member of an ancient and noble family in Augsburg, he was noted for integrity, charity, and active patronage of learning. He tried unsuccessfully to persuade Tycho Brahe to settle in that city.
5 Unidentified.
6 Probably Bizari's Senatus Populique Genuensis, published at Antwerp, 1579.
7 For the siege of Alkmaar, see Motley, J. L., The Rise of the Dutch Republic, II (1855), 463–473 Google Scholar.
8 The flooding by the Dutch was deliberate. Ibid.
9 An officer in the Dutch Army named La Motte is mentioned in the Calendar of State Papers Foreign, 1577-1578, pp. 546, 755. Copers (?Cuypers) is unidentified.
10 Motley gives an account of tension between the two commanders: op. tit., pp. 459- 460.
11 Uncertain; see Italian text.
12 Mondragon, the able military governor of Middelburg, surrendered to Orange on February 18. Motley, 11, 526-529.
13 Conjectural; see Italian text.
14 See Osborn, James M., Young Philip Sidney (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972)Google Scholar, chap. 3.
15 For this reference I am indebted to Dr. Massimo Firpo of Turin, Italy. The Latin reads: ‘. .. quod me videlicet (horresco referens) in crudeliss. ilia carnificina Parisiensi me rabidorum hominum ensium mucronibus expositum, totque armis & angustiis conclusum, turn temporis regiae Maiestatis orator, immensa sua bonitate liberauerit, & exanguem spiritum imis, vt aiunt, labris tantummodo residentem, benigne gratioseque restituerit, & non secus quam mortuum, a sepulchro ac tenebris in lucem ac vitam reuocarit.'
16 Conyers Read, Mr. Secretary Walsingham (Oxford, 1925), 1, 221.
17 The original reads: ‘Dum sub tempus tui discessus, jocando cum Bizarro, do operam, ut tibi & mihi moerorem excutiam, exciderunt mihi quaedam, de quibus constitueram tecum agere, ita ut me meorum jocorum postea penituerit.'
18 Hungarian Studies in English (Debucen: Lajos Kossuth University Press, 1969), IV, 53-64.
19 F. W. T. Hunger, Charles de l'Ecluse (S-Gravenhage, 1927), 1, 123-124. Here Dr. Gal was misled by John Buxton, Sir Philip Sidney and the English Renaissance (1954), p. 61. An English reviewer of Gál's article added a new error. In the Times Literary Supplement the anonymous reviewer wrote of Sidney's ‘second journey to Vienna in 1577.’ Sidney visited the emperor in Prague then, not in Vienna.
20 diuingo: this word is not clear in the text, and presents problems of translation. Gian Carlo Roscioni writes: ‘It sounds like the Italianization of a German word. Perhaps “dingen,” i.e., rent. But I am not sure.'