Excerpt from The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, Vol. 1: Now First Collected and Revised, With a Life of the Author; Part 1, Life, &C., And Letters It remains, therefore, to speak of his Letters, which are by far the most interesting part Of his writings, and occupy as much space as all his other works put together. The greater number Of them, it is true, are written in Latin, whereby they are less generally accessible to the reader. But I have endeavoured to remedy this by pre fixing to every letter a short summary of its con tents, by means Of which, the reader may trace the chief facts Of Ascham's life from the year 1539, when he was in full reputation as a scholar at the University, to his death in 1568. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This edited volume offers a fresh and far-reaching survey of the life, career, intellectual networks, output and times of Roger Ascham (1515/16-1568).