2^2 P^iinters in the Reign of^ieen EllzahefK 



Another Italian book, prefented by Pe- 

 truccio to the queen, is in the Bodleian 

 library. 



Petruccio feems to have been in favour 

 at court i he is frequently mentioned in the 

 rolls of new-years gifts, which ufed to be 

 repofited in the jewel-office, and in which 

 the names of Hilliard, Oliver and Marc 

 Garard do not appear. 



In the 2ift year of Elizabeth— ^ 

 To Petruccio — v/. 



He returns, a book of Italian, with pic- 

 tiires to the life, and metamorphofis of 

 Ovid. 



Another in 1585, by Petruccio Ubaldini, 

 a pedigree : To him, gilt plate five ounces. 



In 1588, To Petruccio in gilt plate five 

 ounces : He returned, a book covered with 

 vellom, of Italian. 



In one of thefe rolls Mr. Sidney (the 



mixture of both their names was called Cambridge. 

 The other illujlrious lady he ftyles exprefsly Donna fen^a 

 Home. As the reader may be curious to know who this 

 namelefs yet illuftrious lady, who deferved to have her 

 life written, was. It is the mother of Ferrex and Porrex 

 in lord Dorfet's Gorboduc, who becaufe one of her fons 

 killed the other, that was her favorite, killed a third 

 K)n in a paflion, . # 



famous 



