John Frampton
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John Frampton was a 16th century English
merchant from the West Country
, who settled in Spain
, was imprisoned and tortured by the Inquisition
, and escaped from Cádiz
in 1567. He became a translator from Spanish
.
His publications include:
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
merchant from the West Country
West Country
The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region. It is often defined to encompass the historic counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset and the City of Bristol, while the counties of...
, who settled in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, was imprisoned and tortured by the Inquisition
Inquisition
The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis , was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy...
, and escaped from Cádiz
Cádiz
Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....
in 1567. He became a translator from Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
.
His publications include:
- 1577: Nicolás MonardesNicolás MonardesNicolás Bautista Monardes was a Spanish physician and botanist.The genus Monarda was named for him.Monardes published several books of varying importance. In Diálogo llamado pharmacodilosis , he examines humanism and suggests studying several classical authors, principally Pedanius Dioscorides...
, Ioyfull newes out of the newe founde worldeHistoria medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias OccidentalesHistoria medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales is the standard title for a survey by Nicolás Monardes , Spanish physician and botanist...
, wherein is declared the rare and singular vertues of diuerse and sundrie hearbes, trees, oyles, plantes, and stones, with their applications, as well for phisicke as chirurgerie, translated from the 1565 Spanish edition - 1578: Fernández de Enciso, Geography
- 1579: The most noble and famous travels of Marco PoloMarco PoloMarco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
- 1579: Bernardino de EscalanteBernardino de EscalanteBernardino de Escalante was a Spanish soldier, priest, geographer and a prolific writer. He is best known as the author of the second book on China published in Europe, and the first one to obtain wide circulation outside of Portugal.The foremost scholar of the European literature about Asia,...
, A discourse of the Navigation which the Portugales doe Make to the Realmes and Provinces of the East Partes of the Worlde, and of the knowledge that growes by them of the great thinges, which are in the Dominion of China: thought to be the second European book (although small) primarily dedicated to China, and the first of them to be made available in English - 1580: Nicolás MonardesNicolás MonardesNicolás Bautista Monardes was a Spanish physician and botanist.The genus Monarda was named for him.Monardes published several books of varying importance. In Diálogo llamado pharmacodilosis , he examines humanism and suggests studying several classical authors, principally Pedanius Dioscorides...
, Ioyfull newes out of the newe founde worldeHistoria medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias OccidentalesHistoria medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales is the standard title for a survey by Nicolás Monardes , Spanish physician and botanist...
: a new edition enlarged on the basis of the 1574 Spanish edition - 1581: Pedro de Medina, Art of Navigation