King's School, Canterbury

Hugh Walpole Collection, [no shelfmark]

A printed exemplum containing brief inscriptions by Sidney and by his friend Fulke Greville made when they were schoolboys. c.1561.

*SiP 221: Sir Philip Sidney, Bandello, Mateo. Histoires tragiques, transl. Pierre Boisteau and François de Belleforest (Lyons, 1561)

These inscriptions are reproduced in facsimile and discussed in Jean Robertson, ‘Sidney and Bandello’, The Library, 5th Ser. 21 (1966), 326-8.

Mateo Bandello, Histoires tragiques, translated by Pierre Boisteau and François de Belleforest (Lyons, 1561), now in the Hugh Walpole Collection at King's School, Canterbury, has brief inscriptions by Sidney and by his friend Fulke Greville made when they were both schoolboys; these inscriptions are reproduced and discussed in Jean Robertson, ‘Sidney and Bandello’, The Library, 5th Ser. 21 (1966), 326-8.