English Diplomat, Author. Translator of Baldassare Castiglione's "Il libro del cortegiano"; his version was entitled "The Courtyer of CountBaldesser Castilio" (1561). Educated at Cambridge and Strasbourg, he traveled extensively on the European continent and was considered "very expert in knowledge of divers tongues". By 1552 he was at work on his translation of "Il cortegiano". The influence of Hoby's translation in England was enormous, not only on the social pattern of life at court but on such writers as Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney. It provided a philosophy of life for the Elizabethan era gentleman. His other works include a translation of a Latin work on the Church of England and an autobiography. He was knighted by Elizabeth I in 1566 and sent to Paris as English ambassador to the court of Charles IX of France. He died the same year and was buried in the church of Bisham in Berkshire, a manor he had inherited from his half-brother, Sir Philip, in 1558. His widow erected a superb renaissance-style monument to the two there, and probably brought sculptors from France to carve the white marble effigies in complete armour.
English Diplomat, Author. Translator of Baldassare Castiglione's "Il libro del cortegiano"; his version was entitled "The Courtyer of CountBaldesser Castilio" (1561). Educated at Cambridge and Strasbourg, he traveled extensively on the European continent and was considered "very expert in knowledge of divers tongues". By 1552 he was at work on his translation of "Il cortegiano". The influence of Hoby's translation in England was enormous, not only on the social pattern of life at court but on such writers as Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney. It provided a philosophy of life for the Elizabethan era gentleman. His other works include a translation of a Latin work on the Church of England and an autobiography. He was knighted by Elizabeth I in 1566 and sent to Paris as English ambassador to the court of Charles IX of France. He died the same year and was buried in the church of Bisham in Berkshire, a manor he had inherited from his half-brother, Sir Philip, in 1558. His widow erected a superb renaissance-style monument to the two there, and probably brought sculptors from France to carve the white marble effigies in complete armour.
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