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- In George Cavendish
…through a single work, his Life of Cardinal Wolsey. This work is a landmark in the development of English biography, an important document to the student of Tudor history, and a rare source of information on the character of the author himself. Cavendish applied to his subject methods of concrete…
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- In biography: Renaissance
…more artful and richly developed narrative, beautifully balanced between splendid scenes of Wolsey’s glory and vanity and ironically contrasting scenes of disgrace, abasement, and painfully achieved self-knowledge.
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