Clivs Secvndus Curio: His Historie of the Warr of Malta, Translated by Thomas Mainwaringe (1579) Folger MS V.A. 508. (Formerly Ms. Add. 588): Volume 339 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0866983872 ISBN 13: 9780866983877

Publisher: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1905

Synopsis

The successful five-month defense of the island of Malta in 1565 against an Ottoman armada by the Knights of St. John was a remarkable achievement, celebrated across Christendom by Catholic and Protestant alike - once they believed the news. In Latin, Italian, French, German, and finally, English, accounts of the siege proliferated - over seventy publications within five years. Thomas Mainwaringe's account of the siege in English is a translation from Latin and among the earliest accounts of the siege to appear in English (1579). In lively, clear, and sometimes moving prose, Mainwaringe's story celebrates the bravery and 'generalship of the Knights of St. John while deploring the disunity within Christendom that so nearly led to the island's defeat and could yet spell disaster elsewhere.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
• Publication date: 1905
• ISBN 10: 0866983872
• ISBN 13: 9780866983877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 122
• Editor: Vella-Bonavita Helen