Author: INGELO (Nathanael):
Title: Bentivolio and Urania: The Fourth Edition, with large Amendments. Wherein all the Obscure Words throughout the Book are interpreted in the Margin, which makes this much more delightful to read than the former Editions.
Description: London, Printed by A. M. and R. R., [i. e., Anne Maxwell and Robert Roberts] for Dorman Newman..., 1682. Folio, 320 x 200 mms., pp. [xii], 171 [172 blank]. BOUND WITH: Bentivolio and Urania. The Second Part, In Two Books. The Fourth Edition. London, Printed by R. T. and R. H. [Evan Tyler and Ralph Holt] for Dorman Newman, 1682. Folio, pp. [xii], 219 [220 blank, 221 - 236 Index] bound in full contemporary calf, red leather label; top of spine chipped. A good copy with a contemporary ownership inscription in messy ink, "Tho: Lucas His Booke." Ingelo (1620/12 - 1683), though born in Bristol, attended Edinburgh University and received his first degree in 1641. He was incorporated at Cambridge in 1644, held a number of posts there, but left in left in 1646 or 1647 to be minister of All Saints, Bristol. His congregation did not much like his dandified dress, nor his love of music (full disclosure: I became a "fan" when I read his declaration that "take away his Musick, take away his life"), and he was later appointed to a fellowship at Eton in1650. In his fine ODNB entry, Ian William McLellan records that he "accompanied Bulstrode Whitelocke on the Swedish embassy (1653–4) as one of his chaplains and as rector chori.... Whitelocke described Ingelo as 'a Person of admirable Abilities in the Work of the Ministery and … a well Studied Scholar, perfect in the Latin tongue, Conversant in the Greek and Hebrew and could speak good Italian, he was much delighted in Musick … and carried persons and instruments with him for that Recreation'." The only Ingelow that the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985) notices is the poet Jean Ingelow (1820 - 1897). Ditto, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1993). Anne Maxwell (died 1684) was a prominent printer in seventeenth century London. She inherited a printing house from her husband, David, who died in 1665. She successfully ran this, producing at least 122 texts between 1665 and 1675 William Wordsworth had a later copy of Bentivolio and Urania in his library.

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