christopher marlowe isnt a translator
meanwhile in renaissance italy a new period in the history of translation had opened in florence with the arrival at the court of cosimo de medici of the byzantine scholar georgius gemistus pletho shortly before the fall of constantinople to the turks 1453
 the 9thcentury alfred the great king of wessex in england was far ahead of his time in commissioning vernacular anglosaxon translations of bedes ecclesiastical history and boethius consolation of philosophy