Gruffydd Robert

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Gruffydd Robert (before 1532 - after 1598) was a Welsh humanist scholar who wrote a pioneering Welsh grammar, in Welsh, while in enforced exile with his colleague and fellow-writer Morys Clynnog in Milan in 1567. He was an ardent Roman Catholic.

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  • T. Gwynfor Griffiths, 'Italian Humanism and Welsh Prose' in Yorkshire Celtic Studies (vol. vi, 1953-58). The background.
  • D. Rhys Phillips, Dr. Griffith Robert: Canon of Milan (1922).
  • G.J. Williams (ed.), Gramadeg Gruffydd Robert (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1939). The standard edition of Gruffydd Robert's grammar, with an extensive introduction.
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