Daniel Rovira
ASIN: B00PEWS826
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 22
1580 was a memorable year for Edmund Spenser: both annus miserablis and horribilis. Three significant events took place: he was appointed secretary under the notoriously violent Lord Grey de Wilton, he witnessed the massacre of 600 unarmed soldiers at Fort d’Oro, Smerwick, and he began writing The Faerie Queene. This paper will investigate the close relationship between these events.