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- 1.
Walton, op. cit., p. 259 –260.
- 2.
The Lives, by Isaak Walton, George P. Putnam, New York, 1848, p. 145
- 3.
For a recent example see Gary Wills, Venice; Lion City, Simon Schuster, New York, 2001, where Wotton's letters from Venice are quoted extensively.
- 4.
The interested reader can find a more detailed account of this in my book The Merely Personal, Ivan Dee, Chicago, 2001.
- 5.
See Walton's Lives, op. cit., p. 153 for the full text of the poem.
- 6.
The Latin text of these letters can be found in The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, by Logan Pearsall Smith, Oxford Press, Oxford, 1907, Vol. II, p. 205. I shall have many occasions to refer to this work which I shall abbreviate as LPS.
- 7.
The relationship is a little complex. Bacon's mother, Anne Cooke, was the great-granddaughter of Sir Philip Cooke. He had married the daughter of Sir Henry Belknap whose sister was the wife of Wotton's great grandfather. LPS, Vol. II, has an invaluable appendix in which people connected to Wotton are identified.
- 8.
LPS, Vol. II, p. 205. I have kept the original spelling in which, for example, “Linz” is spelled “Lintz” and “Kepler, ” “Keplar.”
- 9.
One would imagine that Wotton and Kepler must have spoken German, in which Wotton was fluent. Kepler and Donne must have spoken Latin, since there is no evidence that Donne spoke German and none that Kepler spoke English. It should also be noted that the artist David Hockney has generated something of a controversy by claiming that noted Renaissance painters used a camera obscura to make their drawings more precise.
- 10.
Wotton, Lives, op. cit., p. 136.
- 11.
The Life and Letters of John Donne, by Edmund Gosse, the 1959 reprint edition, Peter Smith, Gloucester. Pearsall Smith had access to some letters that Gosse was not aware of, but this does not change the fact that most of the correspondence seems to be lost.
- 12.
Gosse, op. cit., Vol. ii, p. 315.
- 13.
The Unforgotten Years, by Logan Pearsall Smith, Little Brown, New York, 1937.
- 14.
LPS, Vol. II, p. 130.
- 15.
LPS, Vol. I, p. iii.
- 16.
For a recent example see the essay on Wotton in Three Extraordinary Ambassadors, by Harold Acton, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1983.
- 17.
Unforgotten Years, op. cit., pp. 239 –242.
- 18.
LPS, Vol. II, p. 411.
- 19.
Lives, op. cit., p. 141.The spelling and punctuation are in the original.
- 20.
LPS, Vol. I, p. 314.
- 21.
LPS, Vol. II, pp. 32 –33.
- 22.
LPS, Vol. I, p. 486.
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(2008). Ottavio Baldi: The Life and Times of Sir Henry Wotton. In: Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76506-8_8
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