<< 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 >>                There aren’t structural differences between the two editions. Sometimes the printer has cut a sentence and an affirmative one has became a sequence of interrogatives. Perhaps, to simplify the discourse again.        The fourth day presents a cut which is the only structural difference. The scene is settled in the privy Gallery of the noble palace in which the story takes place.        There are many portraits of royal men and even that of Queen Elizabeth I. In the first edition, of the book next to the portrait of the Queen there is another that portrays the duke of Anjou, who was to marry Queen Elizabeth I. In the 1580 the marriage seemed settled. It had to be a political marriage because there was an alliance between France and England against Spain in the war in the Low Countries.        The second edition of the book was issued ten years after the first one, so these events were by this time history, and the proposed marriage between Elizabeth and Anjou never took place. Also the political situation had changed. Whetstone wrote the book influenced by the imminent marriage of the Queen. To issue a book on marriage when Queen Elizabeth decided to get marry was a good reason for publicity for the book.        In the first edition there is the Dedicatory Epistle to sir Christopher Hatton that there isn’t in Aurelia. Sir Christopher Hatton died in 1591, two years before the second edition, so the printer eliminated the Epistle.        There is also a “Carmen Heroicum” in Latin by a certain Botrevicus , whom it has not been possible to identify. The other parts are similar in the two editions. In the verses by Sir Thomas Watson in the commendation of the author , in the first edition, the name Whetstone is quoted in the text, instead the verses of the second edition are more general and refer only “to the author”.        Aurelia had a shorter “Title pages” than An Heptameron. In the XVI century the title page had an advertising function. It was very long because it explained the meaning and the contents of the book.  << 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 >>