 Partly because of their use in the schools, Mantuan's eclogues had a profound effect on English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.The collection was twice translated into English, by George Turberville in 1567 and Thomas Harvey in 1656.Early in the sixteenth century Alexander Barclay made adaptations of Mantuan's fifth and sixth eclogues, and a notorious attack on women in his fourth eclogue found numerous English translations and paraphrases during the seventeenth century.