Works
Of 25 poems printed in Reliquiae Wottonianae 15 are Wotton's. Of those, two are well known, O his Mistris, the Queen of Bohemia," and The Character of a Happy Life."
During his lifetime he published two works: The Elements of Architecture (1624), which is a free translation of de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, executed during his time in Venice; and a Latin prose address to the king on his return from Scotland (1633). Wotton shares authorship of the quote "Well building hath three conditions: firmness, commodity, and delight," with Vitruvius, from whose de Architectura Wotton translated the phrase; some have termed his Elements a paraphrase rather than a true translation, and the quote is often attributed to Vitruvius.
In 1651 appeared the Reliquiae Wottonianiae, with Izaak Walton's Life.
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