[65] Turner’s widow subsequently married Richard Cox, who became Bishop of Ely. She founded a scholarship at Cambridge in memory of her first husband.
[66] It was for the same reason that Henry Lyte’s translation of Dodoens was printed abroad.
[67] Pierandrea Mattioli (1501-1577) was physician successively to the Archduke Ferdinand and to the Emperor Maximilian II. With the exception of Fabio Colonna he was the greatest of the Italian herbalists.
[68] This was probably the John Falconer who sent English plants to Amatus Lusitanus, who taught physic at Ferrara and Ancona, and whose commentary on Dioscorides was published in 1553.
[69] Queen Elizabeth’s love of gardening and her botanical knowledge were celebrated in a long Latin poem by an Italian who visited England in 1586 and wrote under the name of Melissus (see Archæologia, VII. 120).
[70] Parkinson in his Theatrum Botanicum also mentions this use of bearfoot.
[71] He studied medicine at Montpelier under Guillaume Rondelet, who bequeathed him his botanical manuscripts. D’Aléchamps, Pena and Jean Bauhin, all famous herbalists, were also pupils of Rondelet.
[72] For full title see [Bibliography of Herbals], p. [210].
[73] This manuscript, now in the Vienna Library, was bought from a Jew in Constantinople for 100 ducats by Auger-Geslain Busbecq, when he was on a mission to Turkey.
[74] On one of his visits to England de l’Escluse met Sir Francis Drake, who gave him plants from the New World.