The Boke Named the Governour

In 1531 he published The Boke Named the Governour, dedicated to the king, and that autumn went as the king’s envoy to the court of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V.

…Gisippus in Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Boke Named the Governour (1531).

His great work, The Boke Named the Governour (1531), is a lengthy treatise on the virtues to be cultivated by statesmen. Born of the same tradition that produced The Prince and The Book of the Courtier, The Governour is typical of English humanism in its emphasis on the…