Hothby, John

-1487

English Carmelite monk who is supposed to have lived in the Fifteenth Century. He seems to have been a man of considerable learning, being a doctor both of Theology and Music. He lived long at a monastery in Ferrara, Italy, but about 1440 went to Florence. In one of his letters he tells of traveling in France, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Spain. From 1467 to 1486 he lived in Lucca, Italy, as a teacher in the Carmelite monastery of St. Martin. Henry VII. invited him to England in 1486 and it is supposed that he died the next year. Many of Hothby's works are still in existence, manuscript copies being in the British Museum and libraries at Ferrara, Bologna and Paris.