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Torquemada, Antonio de (c. 1507-1569)
The Spanish Mandevile of Miracles. Or the Garden of Curious Flowers.

London: Printed by I.R. for Edmund Matts, 1600.

First edition, quarto, translated into English by Sir Lewes Leweknor (1560-1627); title page printed within compartment of type ornaments (edges chipped with loss and repaired with Japanese tissue); lacking preliminaries A1 & A4 and 3 text leaves: K3, K4 & Ss1; bound in modern half leather; first few preliminaries with marginal paper restorations; lacking first leaf (blank but for signature mark); 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.

STC 24135; Pforzheimer 1011.

Shakespearian scholars believe that this translation of Torquemada, in this edition, was the source for the character name Robin Goodfellow [aka Puck]. Other works translated by Leweknor also may have been consulted by the bard, with sources on Venice and ideas about Othello's defense against the charge of witchcraft.

Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.
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