Polydore Vergil
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Italian-English scholar
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Polydore Vergil's Degrees
- Doctorate Theology University of Oxford
Why Is Polydore Vergil Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Polydore Vergil or Virgil , widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the Proverbiorum libellus , a collection of Latin proverbs; De inventoribus rerum , a history of discoveries and origins; and the Anglica Historia , an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the "Father of English History".
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