The article deals with the image of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the most powerful man of the kingdom of England in the early 16th century after King Henry VIII, in the work of his contemporary, court historian Polydore Vergil, in which Wolsey is the central figure. Unlike his colleagues J. Skelton and W. Tyndale, P. Vergil is far from making a satire and demonizing the Cardinal. His view is more rational and weighed: T. Wolsey is a talented person, who due to personal passions made some mistakes. P. Vergil demonstrates his humanistic idea about the purpose of history, which is understood as a special branch of ethics, as a fount of positive and negative moral examples for the reader.
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