Author:Thomas Elyot

Thomas Elyot
(c. 1490 – 1546)

Thomas Elyot

Works

• The Boke named the Governour (1531), (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Of the knowledeg [sic] whiche maketh a wise man (1533)
• Pasquyll the Playne (1533)
• The Bankette of Sapience (1534)
• The Castel of Helth (1536)
• The Dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght (1538)
• The Defence of Good Women (1540)
• The castel of helth, 1541 (external scan)
• The bankette of sapience, 1545 (external scan)
• A preseruatiue agaynste deth (1545)

As translator

• The Doctrinal of Princes (1533?), by Isocrates
• Cyprianus, A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of the Mortalitie of Man (1534)
• Rules of a Christian Life (1534), from Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• The Education or Bringinge up of Children (c. 1535), by Plutarch
• Howe one may lake Profile of his Enymes (1535), by Plutarch
• Dialogi. English. Selections [1532?]), by Lucian
• The image of gouernance compiled of the actes and sentences notable, of the moste noble Emperour Alexander Seuerus, late translated out of Greke into Englyshe (1541), by Eucolpius and Aelius

Works about Elyot

• Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli, 1842 (external scan)
• The language and linguistic interests of Sir Thomas Elyot by Samuel Jesse McCoy, 1933 (external scan)
• "Elyot, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Elyot, Sir Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Elyot, Sir Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Sir Thomas Elyot," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)