Gruffydd Robert
Gruffydd Robert (before 1532 – after 1598) was a Welsh humanist scholar who wrote a pioneering Welsh grammar, in Welsh, while in enforced exile with his colleague and fellow-writer Morys Clynnog in Milan in 1567. He was an ardent Roman Catholic.
Life
Robert became archdeacon of Anglesey in 1558, but went into exile after the accession of Elizabeth I of England. By 1564 he was in Rome. Later in the 1580s he is thought to have been in Milan assisting Cardinal Borromeo.[1]
Bibliography
- T. Gwynfor Griffith, 'Italian Humanism and Welsh Prose' in Yorkshire Celtic Studies (vol. vi, 1953–58). The background.
- D. Rhys Phillips, Dr. Griffith Robert, Canon of Milan (1922).
- G. J. Williams (ed.), Gramadeg Gruffydd Robert (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1939). The standard edition of Gruffydd Robert's grammar, with an extensive introduction.
Notes
- ↑ Griffith, T. Gwynfor. "Robert, Gruffydd". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23752. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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