Jan Van Doesborch and the History of Euryalus and Lucretia

Abstract

ABSTRACT Around 1444 Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, the later pope Pius II, wrote De duobus amantibus. Historia Euryalo et Lucretia. In this article I will show that the attribution of the first English edition of the text, the History of Euryalus and Lucretia (c. 1515) to the press of the Antwerp publisher/printer Jan van Doesborch is very plausible. This attribution is based on the analysis of the ‘London fragment’ of the text – which is published here for the first time – in relation to the relationship and characteristics of other publications of the office of Jan van Doesborch.