. Historical portraits ... cocious boy. Philip Sidney left England in 1572for a prolonged tour on the Continent, during which, notwithstandinghis youth, his passion for learning and the letters of recommendationwhich he took with him procured him admission to the houses ofthe most illustrious scholars of Europe, and his own personal charmworked wonders everywhere. The chief of these foreign friends wasHubert Languet, a Huguenot scholar, for whom Sidney contracteda warm affection. But wherever he went it was the same story:Paul Veronese painted his portrait at Venice; some leading Polesare beli
. Historical portraits ... cocious boy. Philip Sidney left England in 1572for a prolonged tour on the Continent, during which, notwithstandinghis youth, his passion for learning and the letters of recommendationwhich he took with him procured him admission to the houses ofthe most illustrious scholars of Europe, and his own personal charmworked wonders everywhere. The chief of these foreign friends wasHubert Languet, a Huguenot scholar, for whom Sidney contracteda warm affection. But wherever he went it was the same story:Paul Veronese painted his portrait at Venice; some leading Polesare believed to have offered to crown him King of their unhappycountry. On his return to England, 1575, he fell in love withPenelope Devereux, to whom his series of sonnets known asAstrophel and Stella is written ; but this famous coquette becameLady Rich shortly before Sir Philip married Frances Walsingham,(1583). Meanwhile Sidney had been sent upon courtly embassiesto Heidelberg and Vienna, made the acquaintance, notwithstanding. 00 (75 u o en O o >» ^ p
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