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|Has Author=Francis Kirkman
|Has Author=Francis Kirkman
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|Has Title=The History of Prince Erastus
|Has Siglum=I (Versio Italico)
|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
|Has Branch Of Tradition=Seven Sages of Rome
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|Has Place Of Text Composition=London, UK
|Has Place Of Text Composition=London, UK
|Has Date Of Text Composition=1674
|Has Date Of Text Composition=1674
|Has Modern Edition=Early English Books Online, Erastus, or, the Roman Prince (2025)
|Has Modern Edition=Early English Books Online, Erastus, or, the Roman Prince (2025)
|Is Adapted From=Erasto (Es)
|Is Adapted From=Italian Erasto
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Revision as of 10:18, 17 February 2026

In the publisher and author Francis Kirkman's (presumably autobiographical, though certainly unreliable) An Unlucky Citizen (1673), he describes a boyhood appetite for literature:

"Once I happened upon a Six Pence, and having lately read that famous Book, of the Fryar and the Boy, and being hugely pleased with that, as also the excellent History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome, and having heard great Commendation of Fortunatus, I laid out all my mony for that, and thought I had a great bargain..." (p. 10). Kirkman went on publish new versions of many of the books his character reported enjoying, including the Seven Wise Masters - specifically, an English translation of the popular Erasto narrative in 1674.

General Information


Parent Versions
Erasto (Es)
Child Versions
Erastus, or, The Roman Prince, Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus
Author
Francis Kirkman
Title
The History of Prince Erastus
Branch of the tradition
Seven Sages of Rome

Language & Composition

Language of version
English
Place of composition
London, UK
Date of Composition
1674

Literature & Editions

Modern Editions
Early English Books Online, Erastus, or, the Roman Prince (2025)

Recorded Branch of This Secondary Version

{{#if:Erastus: or, the Roman prince. Being a more full account of that famous history of the seven wise masters. With many pleasant additions of excellent, and divertive discourses, and songs, not unsuitable to the design of the story. London: Printed for Dorman Newman [...] and Benj. Alsop [...], 1684, Francis Kirkman, The history of Prince Erastus, son to the Emperour Dioclesian, and those famous philosophers called the seven wise masters of Rome. London: Anne Johnson, 1674

Adaptations

Adapted from (version)
Italian Erasto




Pattern of Embedded Stories in This Version


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