By Gaultier Coste De La Calprenède, first published in ten volumes in 1642.
Calprenède's 'Cassandra'
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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1668
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1669
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2 Annotations
First Reading
Michael Robinson • Link
Probably an edition in French since purchased for Elizabeth. There was a popular translation into English:
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, d. 1663.
Cassandra. The fam’d romance. Written originally in French and now elegantly rendered into English by an honorable person.
London : printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard, 1652.
8vo., [2], 232 p. ;
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L106
Translation by Sir Charles Cotterell
Reprinted for Mosely 1661, 1664, 1667, 1676
No copy in the PL.
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Cassandra the fam'd romance : the whole work : in five parts / written originally in French ; now elegantly rendred into English by a person of quality.
La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, d. 1663., Cotterell, Charles, Sir, d. 1701.
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley ... William Bentley and Thomas Heath ..., M.DC.LII [1652]
Early English Books Online [full text]
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