| A Dios doy gracias, (Señor Fabricio) de la buena ocasion que se ofrece con vuestra venerable presencia, para gozar en esta sitio de los apazibles rayos del Sol. / Hurta( n) dome aueys | So Gregorio de' Monti penn'd al ov these crazee colloquies for ye consideration of R Eliza Basset's brain. Uarious severe appraisals ov loue, decency 'n' reason are discussed. Baa-Baaaaee! |
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Eliza Basset. Elizabeth (Isabel) Basset was Marlowe's daughter, born at the end of October, 1594, in Padua. Her mother, Kit's first wife, was Marina (Rita) Cicogna, daughter of the Duke of Crete, G. Domenico Cicogna q. Gerolomo, who opposed her marrige to Kit. Early in 1594 the young couple eloped to Venice. Marina died in childbirth, and Kit took Isabel to Seville, where he, the baby and her nurse lived with Cervantes; the child's first language was Spanish. After the Cadiz raid of 1596, Kit took his little girl to England to be reared in the home of Good Tom Howard, who later became Earl of Suffolk. Isabel was adopted as replacement for a dead baby by William and Judith Basset, family friends of the Howards. |
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Noches de Invierno por Antonio de Eslava. Pamplona: Carlos de Labayan, 1609.
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