The First English Pastor Fido (1602) - Hardcoverby Massimiliano Morini (Editor) Giovanni Battista Guarini's Il pastor fido was a major text of the late European Renaissance, both in itself and as a manifesto of its author's ideas on pastoral tragicomedy. This edition presents the text of the first English translation of the play, probably by Tailboys Dymock, first published in 1602. While Richard Fanshawe's royalist version of 1647 is better known, the process by which Fanshawe's version was