This article contains a concise biographical timeline for Polydore Vergil (c.1470-1555). He is known today as the Father of English History.
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c.1470 – He is born in Urbino.
by 1496 – He is ordained.
1496 – He publishes Perotti’s Cornucopiae.
1498 – He publishes Proverbiorum Libellus in Venice.
1499 – He publishes De Inventoribus Rerum.
before 1502 – He enters the service of Pope Alexander VI.
1502 – He travels to England as the deputy of Cardinal Adriano Castellesi in the office of Collector of Peter’s Pence.
1504 – He is enthroned Bishop of Bath and Wells as proxy for Adriano.
as early as 1505 – He begins his Anglica Historia.
1508 – He is installed as Archdeacon of Wells.
1510 – He is naturalized English.
1515 – He is imprisoned in the Tower of London in April and released in December.
1525 – He publishes the first critical edition of a British historical text, Gildas …de calamitate, excidio et conquestu Britanniae.
1531 – He publishes Dialogus de Prodigiis.
1533 – He publishes De Perfecto Monacho.
1534 – He publishes Anglica Historia in Basle. He is admitted into the ranks of nobility by Francesco Maria.
1546 – He resigns the Archdeaconry of Wells to the Crown.
1553 – He leaves England for the last time.
1555 – He dies in Urbino.
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References;
1 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydore_Vergil
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