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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed jacket, pencil annotation on endpaper, some staining on top edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Beriebener Umschlag, Bleistiftanmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, etwas angeschmutzter Kopfschnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Gabriel Harvey�s level-headed comments on the personages and mores of his time are frequently quoted, but the man himself is more generally, and distortedly, known through the caricature given of him by Thomas Nashe. Dr. Stern seeks to redress the imbalance by investigating the circumstances of this scholar and writer�s long life and by examining the illuminating personal marginalia in the books of his library. In doing so, she presents a rounded portrait of a noteworthy Renaissance Englishman. Aman of intense ambition, he aspired to serve his country, but his personal story was one of ordeals and frustrations as he pursued a succession of careers: a don at Cambridge, a courtier in Leicester�s train, an author and publisher s reader, and a civil lawyer. Part I establishes the biographical facts of Harvey�s life. Part II, on the marginalia, shows the wide range of his studies and interests: literature and drama, languages, cosmology, medicine, law, navigation, history, oratory, and the methods of warfare. In the course of his pursuit of knowledge and skills, he comments on many friends and acquaintances � including Spenser and Sidney - and on the issues of the day, thus providing a fascinating contemporary perspective on the historically significant times in which he lived. Part III deals with his huge library of several thousand volumes. The scope of this book, with its revelation of hitherto unpublished material of first-class importance, renders it a substantial contribution to Elizabethan scholarship.