John Bulteel (writer)

John Bulteel (c. 1627–1692) was an English writer and translator, cousin of John Bulteel, Member of Parliament. He was descended from French Huguenots.[1]

Works

Identifiable works of Bulteel include:[2]

  • London's Triumph, or the Solemn and Magnificent reception of that honourable gentleman, Robert Tichburn, Lord Major, dated October 1656.[1] The reception was by Oliver Cromwell.
  • Berinthea, 1664, a romance.
  • Amorous Orontus, or Love in Fashion, 1665, a translation in heroic verse of Thomas Corneille's Amour à la Mode
  • Rome exactly described, 1668, translation of two discourses of Angelo Corraro, Venetian ambassador to Pope Alexander VII.
  • Translation from 1683 of François Eudes de Mézeray's General Chronological History of France.
  • Apophthegmes of the Ancients, taken out of Plutarch and others, collected into one volume for the benefit and pleasure of the Ingenious, 1683.

The Drudge: Or, the Jealous Extravagant of 1673, a translation by B.J. of a work by René Le Pays, has been tentatively attributed to Bulteel.[3]

Notes
  1. Allen, Vivien. "Bulteel, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3933. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bulteel, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. Hazlitt, William Carew (1876). Collections and Notes, 1867-1876. Reeves and Turner. p. 256.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bulteel, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.



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