Author:Thomas Urquhart

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Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660)

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Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (or Urchard) was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his translation of François Rabelais

Thomas Urquhart

Works

• Epigrams, Divine and Moral (1641)
• Trissotetras (1645)
• Pantochronachanon (1652)
• The Jewel (Ekskybalauron) (1652) or Discovery of a most Exquisite Jewel
• Logopandecteision (1653)

Translations

• The Works of François Rabelais (Books I and II, 1653; Book III, 1693)
  • Gargantua
  • Pantagruel
  • The Third Book (1546)
  • The Fourth Book (1552)
  • The Fifth Book (1564) (there are questions over whether and to what degree Rabelais is the author of the Fifth Book)

Works about Urquhart

• "Urquhart, Sir Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Urquhart, Thomas (1611-1660)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Urquhart, Sir Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)