Francis Kynaston

Francis Kynaston

Sir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston (1587 - 1642) was an English courtier and poet, noted for his translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" into Latin verse (as rime royal, "Amorum Troili et Creseidae Libri Quinque", 1639); he also made a Latin translation of Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid.

He was from Ellesmere, Shropshire, and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford (matriculated 1601), and Cambridge. He was knighted by James I in 1618, and was a Member of Parliament in 1621.

Under Charles I he had a court position, and founded with royal support the "Musaeum Minervae", an academy, initially in his own house, but with ambitions to move into Chelsea College.

He wrote a masque, "Corona Minervae", performed in 1635. Other works were "Leoline and Sydanis" (1641), and "Cynthiades: Sonnets to his Mistresse".

External links

* [http://eee.uci.edu/~papyri/troilus Amorum Troili et Creseidae Libri Quinque]
* [http://eee.uci.edu/~papyri/testament Testamentum Creseidae (1639)]


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