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Robert Tofte
Robert Tofte (bap. 1562 – d. Jan. 1620) was an English translator and poet.〔'Robert Tofte,' ODNB.〕 He is known for his translations of Ariosto's ''Satires'' and his sonnet sequences ''Alba, The Months Minde of a Melancholy Lover'' (1598) and ''Laura, The Toyes of a Traveller: Or, The Feast of Fancie'' (1597). He also authored a partial translation of Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'' and was possibly responsible for the popular and anonymous ''Batchelar's Banquet'' (1603) as well. Tofte is perhaps most famous for his incidental reference to ''Love's Labour's Lost'' in ''Alba'', the first mention of that Shakespeare play in print.
==Life==
Born the son of a fishmonger, Tofte eventually moved in aristocratic and literary circles and invariably presented himself as "R.T. Gentleman" on the title pages of his published works. He studied at Oxford beginning in 1582 〔Williams, "Robert Tofte an Oxford Man," p. 12.〕 and traveled in France and Italy between 1591 and 1594, where he perfected his Italian and French and possibly met Samuel Daniel and Giovanni Battista Guarini.〔Williams, "Robert Tofte," p.287.〕 His reference to Love's Labour's Lost demonstrates his familiarity with Shakespeare. Though no student of law, Tofte kept his lodgings in Holborn near London's Inns of Court, societies that included Edmund Spenser, John Harington, and John Marston as members.
He was known familiarly among his friends as "Robin Redbreast," and his works contain frequent allusions to this nickname. Tofte's work also reveals an interest in The Woman Question, and some critics have labeled him a misogynist on account of the works he chose to translate.〔Williams, "Robert Tofte," 296.〕
Tofte died in the house of a Mrs. Goodall in Holborn in January 1620, and was buried on 24 January in the church of St. Andrew, Holborn. In his lengthy will, one sees both a wealthy aristocrat and a penitent Protestant believer.〔Grosart, "Introduction," v-viii.〕
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