At 02:23 PM 4/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Katherine Duncan-Jones notes that Lipsius dedicated a treatise on Latin >pronunciation to Sidney. She also quotes in her biography from a letter >Sidney wrote to Lipsius (p.294). Of how long a standing was the two men's >acquaintance? Where can one find more about their relationship? See J. A. van Dorsten, Poets, Patrons and Professors: Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers and the Leiden Humanists, Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute 2 (London: Oxford University Press, for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, 1962), pp. 116-18, 119, 148-51, 163-64. Some additional bits and pieces in Wilson-Okamura, "Spenser and the Two Queens," English Literary Renaissance 32 (2002): 62-84. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [log in to unmask] East Carolina University Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c -----------------------------------------------------------------------