Question

Gavin Douglas is notable for:

• A. Translating Virgil’s Aeneid into English
• B. Writing the first English novel
• C. Inventing the sonnet form
• D. Translating Homer's Odyssey into Scottish Gaelic

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Translating Virgil’s Aeneid into English

• Douglas’s Eneados (1513).

• First complete translation of the Aeneid in English.

• Early monument of Renaissance humanism.