Thomas Rodd
Thomas Rodd was an English bookseller, antiquarian and Hispanist; Rodd purchased some Greek manuscripts for the British Museum.
He translated some old ballads into English: Ancient Ballads from the Civil Wars of Granada and the Twelve Peers of France. He also translated part 1 of a Spanish historical novel by Gines Perez de Hita as The Civil Wars of Granada. Then he published an adaptation of the Historia Caroli Magni: History of Charles the Great and Orlando, ascribed to Archbishop Turpin; translated from the Latin in Spanheim’s Lives of ecclesiastical writers: together with English metrical versions of the most celebrated ancient Spanish ballads relating to the twelve peers of France mentioned in Don Quixote ; Rodd translated Damián López de Tortajada, Los doce pares de Francia.
