Sir Philip Sidney (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

A captivating biography of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)—poet, courtier, soldier, and one of the Elizabethan Age’s most prominent figures. Sidney exemplified the qualities of a courtier: learned and politic, but also generous, brave, and impulsive. He was memorialized as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser’s Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies.