miniature cameo of a young Francis Bacon 18 years of age, by Nicholas Hilliard, resides now at Belvoir Castle, Grantham, reproduced by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Rutland.(For the history of this painting see Roy Strong in the Burlington Magazine, 106 (1964), 337.) Hilliard was so swept off his feet by Bacon's intellectual genius that he wrote round the miniature in latin, (transcribed) "Would I could paint his mind."
Editor: Brian Vickers, educated at St.Marylebone Grammar School and Trinity College Cambridge, has been Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the ETH Zurich since 1975. He has written extensively on Francis Bacon, on Renaissance science and philosophy, and on classical rhetoric. His other books include Towards Greek Tragedy (1973), In Defence of Rhetoric (1988), Returning to Shakespeare (1989) and Appropriating Shakespeare : Contemporary Critical Quarrels (1993).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
xv |
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Chronology |
xlv |
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Notes on the Text |
xlix |
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An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England |
1 |
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Letter to Lord Burghley |
20 |
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Of Tribute; or giving that which is due |
22 |
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A Device for the Gray's Inn Revels |
52 |
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Of Love and Self-Love |
61 |
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Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his travels |
69 |
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Essays(1597), Religious Meditations, Of the Colours of Good and Evil |
81 |
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Advice to Fulke Greville on his studies |
102 |
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A Confession of Faith |
107 |
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Two Prayers |
113 |
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A Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savile touching helps for the intellectual powers |
114 |
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The Advancement of Learning |
120 |
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Essays (1612) |
300 |
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The Charge of touching duels |
304 |
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The Charge against Somerset for poisoning Overbury |
314 |
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Letter to King James I, March 1621 |
326 |
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Letter to Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1621 |
328 |
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Poems and Psalms |
322 |
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Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625) |
341 |
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New Atlantis |
457 |
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Abbreviations |
491 |
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Notes |
493 |
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Further Reading |
803 |
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Index |
809 |
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