This initial work had significant and lasting effects on his career, the most immediate being an appointment as Latin secretary to Cardinal Granvelle, chief minister of Philip II in the Low Countries, who took the young man to Rome, where ...
The present edition offers a lightly revised version of Stradling's translation, updated for modern readers, alongwith a new introduction, notes and bibliography.
In 17th-century intellectual life, the ideas of the Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius (15471606) were omnipresent.