1573-1576
The Uncrowned King Video
Part 4
- We have seen that apart from private tuition by the best masters Francis Bacon's environment had been of such a general educative nature, so unique in character, that it had tended from his cradle days to draw out of him those inherent qualities of soul that distinguished him in adult life from all his contemporaries.
- His life had begun to unfold under the most advantageous curcumstances, all calculated to promore those social, courtly, mental, moral, psychic and spiritual qualities which afterwards endeared him to so many different types.
The Temple:
With the completion of The Temple at Gorhambury in 1568, he was brought in close touch with a circle of literary men who were the heralds of the dawn of English literature and connected with the Bacon circle.
In the same year came the first translations of classic and Italian Renaissance poetry, philosophy and history. Ovid, Plutarch and Eyripides were later to find English expression. The men responsible for these translations were friends and proteges of Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Leicester and the Bacons.
The College
Francis and Anthony Bacon
stayed at Cambridge upward of three years, excepting a period from July 1574 until March 1575, when the University was closed owing to the plague which was raging in England, leaving it finally in December 1575. More…
The Dreadnought
From the Acts of the Privy Council states that George Bristowe of H.M.S. Dreadnought was directed to convey Francis Bacon overseas "to such part on the other side as might be deemed most convenient to him."