The apanage of the duke of Anjou

Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence

“…71 Elizabeth, though, does seem to have kept a certain amount of her correspondence completely private. That this was the case is suggested by gossip of the time, for example by the Spanish ambassador Mendoza.…”

“…70 The lavish arches, parade wagons and tableaux lining the streets were memorialized in a handsome folio illustrated book published by Christopher Plantin in both French and Dutch, La ioyeuse & magnifique Entree de Monseigneur Francoys fils de France (Antwerp, 1582). 71 Susan Doran interprets the show of English strength at Anjou's "joyous entry" as a vote of confidence in Anjou as sovereign of the Netherlands, "signifying Elizabeth's approval of the States' formal act of rebellion and French sovereignty over most of the Low Countries." 72 Letters 5 and 6, however, tell another story: here Elizabeth expresses her fury at the oath.…”

“…This passage may not just allude to the offer of the sovereignty of the Netherlands in 1576: during the oath ceremony at Antwerp, with the earl of Leicester prominent nearby, Anjou-and the event more broadly-publicly implicated Elizabeth in the ceremony, promising that he was resolved to protect his new citizens, "to restore their ancient liberties, and in doing so, to risk whatever means God placed in his hands, and whatever it pleased the king his lord and brother and the queen of England to lend him, even as far as shedding his own blood and losing his life." 79 If this interpretation is correct, then the "Seigneur" unenthusiastic about Huguenots is presumably Philip II, whose property (the Netherlands) has come to Elizabeth as a peculiar sort of inheritance. The request to which Elizabeth responds at the beginning was probably made in speech rather than writing: this is the sense of "langage" elsewhere in Elizabeth's correspondence.…”

“…18 . Again Trovato, Il primo Cinquecento , cites cases from the Mantovan The Tuscan ending derives from the Latin perfect *hebuit , while the other is traceable to an expression which used habebat(Serianni, La lingua ,71). The form in -ì a , for example, is used and recommended by Trissino (Antonio Sorella, 'La tragedia,' in Serianni and Trifone, vol.…”