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Title: Historical portraits ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cocious boy. Philip Sidney left England in 1572 for a prolonged tour on the Continent, during which, notwithstanding his youth, his passion for learning and the letters of recommendation which he took with him procured him admission to the houses of the most illustrious scholars of Europe, and his own personal charm worked wonders everywhere. The chief of these foreign friends was Hubert Languet, a Huguenot scholar, for whom Sidney contracted a warm affection. But wherever he went it was the same story: Paul Veronese painted his portrait at Venice; some leading Poles are believed to have offered to crown him King of their unhappy country. On his return to England, 1575, he fell in love with Penelope Devereux, to whom his series of sonnets known as Astrophel and Stella is written ; but this famous coquette became Lady Rich shortly before Sir Philip married Frances Walsingham, (1583). Meanwhile Sidney had been sent upon courtly embassies to Heidelberg and Vienna, made the acquaintance, notwithstanding
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