By Thomas Mayer
Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) used to be the main Italianate Englishman of his iteration. This publication locations Starkey into new and extra acceptable contexts, either biographical and highbrow, taking him out of others during which he doesn't belong, from displaced Roundhead to follower of Marsilio of Padua. starting together with his local Cheshire, it lines his occupation via Oxford, Padua, Paris, Avignon, Padua back, and eventually England, the place he spent the final 4 years of his existence attempting to fulfil his ambition to serve the commonweal. so much of Starkey's profession revolved round his shopper Reginald Pole, scion of the top the Aristocracy, yet Starkey (and many different Englishmen) controlled to stability loyalty to Pole with allegiance to Henry VIII. Out of favour with the king's secretary after the center of 1536, Starkey became more and more to faith, carrying on with to grasp to his conciliarist and Italian Evangelical evaluations until eventually his dying.
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The last could also translate communem utilitatem where one might have 35 The thre bookes of Tullius offyce, sig. A2v-A3r. Only the reference to the English will be given, since the Latin original is always on the facing page. 'Felicity' was Whittinton's standard offering for finem bonorum. 22 Thomas Starkey and the commonweal expected common benefit, and communem societatem where common company might have been looked for (Dr and Q3r). Perhaps Thomas Elyot's objection to the translation of res publica as commonwealth had registered with Whittinton.
Dewar, Sir Thomas Smith, 203. Neither lists donors. Thomas James's monumental catalogue of the Bodleian appeared only in 1620. S. Jayne, Library catalogues, 75 and 36. Index, 489 and 492. John Taylor lists five other MSS presently in Magdalen's library, but whether they were already there in Starkey's day is unknown. Ranulf Higden, 157. Higden skipped over Magna charta altogether, but he generally sympathized with the barons, especially ipse Justus Simon de Montfort. Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 250.
43 Starkey's years as an undergraduate have left no trace in the university records apart from his degree, but it seems likely that he arrived in 1513 and studied the prescribed four years before receiving his BA in 1516. Starkey's father paid his son's way as a demy, and Starkey probably meant the £40 he left to his father as repayment. 45 If Starkey did indeed arrive in 1513, then he entered Magdalen at the same time as his future patron Pole. They may have been in the same place, but they probably did not immediately move in the same circles.