tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5081943673994956209.post6571350099271280941..comments2023-12-20T11:32:05.171-08:00Comments on Bacon was Shakespeare - Authorship Evidence: Shakespeare and Italy 13 - Sabbioneta Athens Duke's OakUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5081943673994956209.post-56276542167746828502017-11-01T12:05:48.398-07:002017-11-01T12:05:48.398-07:00Thanks for your comment. I'm aware of Begley&#...Thanks for your comment. I'm aware of Begley's thoughts and of Amboise's bio. Unfortunately, a couple of letters have been found in recent years from someone at Gray's Inn that mention Bacon's excellent work there and this occurred during the time we speculated that he was most likely to have traveled in Italy, if in fact he had. So unless we can reasonably find another time period he could have traveled there we need to drop that argument. This isn't fatal at all to the Baconian argument since he had many other ways to be well acquainted with Italy. Unfoldyourselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09813225921068323064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5081943673994956209.post-51693049280732051302017-09-29T04:03:24.361-07:002017-09-29T04:03:24.361-07:00Pierre Ambiose published the first bio on Bacon 16...Pierre Ambiose published the first bio on Bacon 1631<br />Chief interest in this book of Pierre Amboise : which incidently had no engraved title page to recommend it : lies in the fact that in this contemporary work we are told that, thanks to the generosity of his father, Francis was sent on his travels at an early age, and that he went both into Itlay and Spain, especially with a view to learn the laws and customs of the people and their different forms of government. Pierre Amboise says that these travels occupied "quelques annees de sa jeunesse", but does not mention the years in which they occurred.<br />It appears from the "Privileg du Roi", which in France secures the author's copyright, that Amboise's original intention was to include in the book some letters of Bacon, but unfortunately that intention was not carried out. Mr. Begley infers that it was probably these letters which informed him of Bacon's early travels.<br />But from whatever source Pierre Amboise obtained his information we have in his book (a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum) the unqualified statement that Bacon went both to Italy and Spain, and, touching the veracity of that statement I should say that there was no inducement to Pierre Amboise to invent it http://www.sirbacon.org/italy.htmLG33https://www.blogger.com/profile/07899573422401558297noreply@blogger.com