Today in 1538 humanist Thomas Starkey died. He was a humanist and political theorist. Born in 1495, he attended Oxford and got an MA at Magdalen College in 1521. He traveled to Padua studying the works of Aristotle, and wrote about his admiration of the way Venice was governed. He is most famous for his A Dialogue between Pole and Lupset, later known as Starkey’s England, and cast in dialogue form, between Reginald Pole and Thomas Lupset (1495–1530). Lupset was another humanist scholar, and Pole was a Cardinal, and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury.
In 1536 he published An Exhortation to the People instructing them to Unity and Obedience, a defence of Royal Supremacy and commissioned by Thomas Cromwell.
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