Includes bibliographical references (pages 594-618) and index.
Contents:
Debt, Drugs and Bodysnatching: Bacon's Legacy. The Bold Birth of Opportunity: 1561-1588 -- Much Hoped Imps -- A Protestant Abroad -- Neither Well Left nor Well Friended -- Strange Bedfellows: Consorting with Catholics -- The Courtship of Favour: 1588-1603 -- Design Dissembled: Brotherly Love -- A Tired Sea-sick Suitor: The Trials of Preferment -- Getting Nowhere: The Armour of Patience Pressed -- Losing Ground: Matter of Charge and Accusation -- Flying with Waxen Wings: The Final Fall of Essex -- A Precarious Power: 1603-1621 -- Dawn of the Deserving World -- No Stage-friends: Making Connections -- Being Politic: The King's Business -- Exchanging Favours: Somerset to Villiers -- Much Ado, and a Great Deal of World -- A New Course of Thriving: Lord Chancellor Bacon -- Franciscan Martyr: Bribery, Buggery and the Fall of Francis Bacon -- Inventing Posterity: 1621-1626 -- Leisure without Loitering: Bacon's Quinquennium -- Debt, Drugs and Bodysnatching: Bacon's Legacy.
Summary:
A biography of sixteenth-century statesman, scientist, and philosopher Francis Bacon, discussing his career as a politician, and the scandal that led to his leaving politics and devoting himself to scientific works.
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