The three manuscript copies of Robert Ashley’s "Of Honour" and Sebastián Fox Morcillo’s "De honore": study of a translation plagiarism

• Antonio Espigares Pinilla ^[1] ; Renae Satterley ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] Middle Temple Library, London
• Localización: SEDERI: yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies, ISSN 1135-7789, Nº. 32, 2022, págs. 31-65
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Robert Ashley’s Of Honour, edited in 1947 by Virgil B. Heltzel, has become a reference work in studies on honor in English literature, but we have known since 2016 that it is a translation plagiarism of Sebastián Fox Morcillo’s De honore (1556). In this paper the authors analyze and compare the three existing manuscripts of Of Honour (two of them recently identified), discuss Ashley’s possible intentions in producing it, and make a complete comparative study of De honore with Robert Ashley’s translation.