THE SUPPOSES (I Suppositi): A comedie written in the Italian Tongue by A. and Englisshed by G. Gascoygne. In. ('A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers, etc.') [1572].
TWO TALES. Tr. by R[obert] T[ofte]. 1597.
'Ariosto', says Hallam, 'has been, after Homer, the favourite poet of Europe.'
A. based his epics on the writings of Virgil. He was Spenser's favourite poet, who suggested the style and form used in the 'Faerie Queene'.
'Orlando Furioso' is closely imitated from Boiardo's 'Orlando Innamorato.' His 'Satyres' are written in the Horatian manner.
ARISTOPHANES, b. 448, d. 380 B.C. The most famous comic poet of Greece.
THE BIRDS OF A. From the Text of Dindorf. With notes by H. P. Cookesley, 1834.
THE CLOUDS: a comedy (423) Tr. by Mr. Theobald, 1715.
COMEDIES (5). Tr. by T. Mitchell, 1820-3.
THE FROGS: a comedy. Tr. by C. Dunster, [1780].