Treatise of Religion and Learning, Book 3 · Chapter 10
CHAP. X.
GVliel. Canterus, he is preferred before his brother.
Natus est Anno Dom. 1542. Suffrid. Pet. De Script. Fris. Vide Thuan. Hist. tom. 3. l. 61. Bononiae Carolo Sigonio usque adeo gratus fuit, ut Novas ei Lectiones inscribendas putarit. Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Extant ejus Novarum lectionum libri octo, in quibus cum plurimis ac diversissimis authoribus …egritatem suam restituat, quantus ipse librorum helluo fuerit, declaravit. Suffridus Petrus de Scriptoribus Frisiae.Besides his own Belgick Tongue, he was skilled in Latine, Greek, Hebrew, the Germane, French and Italian.
Siquis absolutum specimen desideret hominis studiosi, & ejus qui literis promovendis totus se consecravit, in Gulielmo Cantero ad amussim expressum reperiat. Suffrid. Pet. de Script. Fris.
Besides his Novae lectiones the third time reviewed and inlarged, he wrote Notes upon Tullies Offices and Epistles, Scholia upon Propertius, and he turned the Works of divers out of Greek into Latine.
His Works are mentioned by Suffridus Petrus.
Studiorum cursus ubique pene par fuit. Suffridus Petrus de Scriptoribus Frisiae. Doctissimus adolescens Lambertus Canterus, patre Theodoro, patruoque Gulielmo dignissimus. Casaub. Animadvers. in lib. 1. Sucton.Theodorus Canterus the others brother.
He hath published a Book styled Variae Lectiones, and Arnobius with his own Annotations.
Melchioris Cani scriptum de locis Theologicis multa eruditione refertum est. Voet Biblioth. l. 2. Sect. poster. c. 1. Summus Theologus & moderatissimus vir. Montacut. Antidiat. Ejus loci Communes è soecundo, erudito, & facundo ingenio prodierunt, en commendandi magis, quod ipse nostra aetate, primus ea brevitate, copia, dispositione, ac perspicuitate de iis perutiliter egerit. Possev. Apparat. Sac. Tomo 2do.Melchior Canus, a Spaniard. Inferiour to none in the Church for Learning, and for a Papist a man of a singular ingenuity. Dr Jacks. Comment. on the Creed, Vol. 1. l. 3. c. 13.
His Common places are most esteemed.
Whear in his Method of reading, Hist. parte 1a, Sect. 33. saith, Melchior Canus magni nominis apud pontificios (nec immerito) Theologus.
He is commended by the Jesuite Pererius (tom. in Dan. l. 12. c. 6.) for the most famous Divine that was in the Councell of Trent, who explained the mysteries of the holy Scripture more fully then any since his time.
Hieronymus Capivacceus or Capinacca, a famous Professor of Physick in Padua.
Jacobus Cappellus, he was elder brother to Lodovicus Capellus.Jacobi Capelli (viri multae eruditionis, & harum literarum callentissimi) Historiam Sacram & Exoticam accuratâ quidem diligentia ad temporum rationem concinnatam, merita sua laude neutiquam privandam censeo. Whear Method. legendi Histor. parte 2da sect. 6.
His Historia sacra exotica ab Adamo usque ad Augustum is most approved.
He hath written de Mensuris Observationes in Epistolam ad Hebraeos.
Apologie pour les Eglises Reformees.
Ludovicus Capellus, a great Hebrician now living at Somers in France.
His Critica Sacr… are more commended by Grotius, In quo nescio magisne indefessam sedulitatem mirari debeam: an uberrimam eruditionem, an judicium limatissimum, quae tres laudes in hoc opere ita inter se cerrant, ut in ambiguo maneat cui de tribus prima palma debeatur. Grotius Epist. ad Gallos. Contentus esto magnis potius quam multis laudatoribus. …d ib.then by some of his own Countrymen, and other Learned and Orthodox Writers.
Vir summus mens olim praeceptor. Bocharti Gecgraph. Sac. parte prior. l. 2. c. 8.
His Spicilegium and Diatriba de Voto Jephtae are well liked.
Ludovicus Carbo.Vir in Rhetorum lectione multum versatus, nec malè de arte ea meritus. Voss. de Analog. lib. 1. cap. 48.
Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.
Hier. Cardanus, he was a great Scholar,Scripsit Hicronymus Cardanus doctissimè Mathematica plurima, medicinam tamen profitetur Rami Schol. Mathem. l. 3. Mathematum insignis cultor & explicator, supra cae…eros, propter edita ingenii monumenta innumera toti terrarum Orbi probata, praeconiis efferendus. Tomas. Illust Vir. Elog. Romae magni nominis sive Mathematicus sive medicus Hieronymus Cardanus Mediolano natus hoc anno obiit. Varia ejus vita, ut mores, pluraque ipse de se inaudita in viro literas professo simplicitate seu libertate scripsit, quam Curiosus quisquam a me exigat. Romae eum diverso ab aliis cultu incedentem paucis ante obicum annis conspicati & adlocuti ac saepius admirati sumus, cum celeberrimi tot scriptis hominis recordatio subiret, neque tamen quidquam in eo quod tantae famae responderet, animadverteremus, eoque magis Julii Caesaris caligeri judicium suspeximus, quid ivinum ingeniùm suum in opere de subtilitate exagitando praecipuè exercuit, in aequalitate illius diligenter notata, qui in quibusdam interdum plus homine sapere, in pluribus minus pueris intelligere videatur. In arithmeticis multa Conatus est & invenit., judiciariae quam vocant, fidem apud multos struxit, dum certiora per eam, quam ex arte possint, plerunque promeret. Verum extremae amentiae fuit imo impiae audaciae astrorum Commentiis legibus verum astrorum Dominum velle subjicere, quod ille tamen exarata Servatoris nostri genitura feci… tandem cum tribus diebus minus septuagesimum quintum annum implevisset, eodem, quo prae dixerat anno & die, videlicet XI. Kal. octobr. desecit, ob id, ne falleret, mortem suam inedia accelerasse creditus. Thuan. Hist. tomo 3tio l. 62. but some much dislike much his XII. geniturae exemplares, wherein he speaks strangely of his good and evil qualities, he cast also our Saviour Christs Nativity, shewd that he should be a Prophet, and die a violent death Cardanus eo dementiae fuit progressus, ut horoscopum Christi ex astrorum positu meditatus sit, & ex sinistris quibusdam aspectibus nato Christo natis fataele illi praedixerit crucis suspendium. Aisted. Encyclop. l. 32. c. 10.
His Books de Subtilitate and Varietate are most commended.
He wrote a Book de libris propriis. Imitatus sum (saith he) in hoc scribendi genere Galenum, & Erasmum, qui ambo catalogum librorum suorum scripserunt.
George Carleton, he was one of our Divines of Great Britain that was at the Synod of Dort.
His Consensus Ecclesiae Catholicae contra Tridentinos, and his Jurisdiction Regall, Episcopall and Papall are most commended, though he hath published other Works.
John Carion.
His Chronicle with the additions of Philip Melancthon and Gaspar Peucer is commended, and was highly esteemed by Mr Bolton.
Illud verò ineptius visum est, quod Carolum magnum (qui quam Monarchiam vocant primus occupavit) natione Gallum, in Gallia natum, lingua quoque moribus & institutis Gallorum una cum suis majoribus educatum, modo Germanum. modo Alemanum vocant. Tam etsi enim à Francis veterum Gallorum colonis originem plerique traxisse putent, non tamen negant quin Gallorum armis ac legionibus. Germaniam, Italiam & magnam Hispaniae partem cum imperio Gallorum conjuoxeri… ac primogenitis Galliam, velut Imperii sedem, alias aliis regiones ab hoc Imperio avulsas dederit, quousque Henricus Auceps natione Germanus, Regem se ferens, Germaniam hujus Imperii partem occupavit. Bodin. Method. Histor. Vide illum de Repub. l. 1. c. 7. Carolus Imperator magnus Natione Alemannus, vir virtute & conversatione Christianissimus & in sanctorum numerum non immerito relatus, in scripturis divinis studiosissimus, & in secularibus literis egregié doctus, ingenio subtilis, eloquio clarus & disertus, & multarum linguarum cognitione insignis, Graecae, Latinae & Hebraicae peritus, nequaquam a catalogo illustrium virorum Germaniae rejiciendus. Enimvero artes liberales studiosissimè coluit, earumque doctores plurimum veneratus magnis afficiebat honoribus. Trithem. Catal. Vir. Illust. Vide plura ibid.Carolus M. Charles the Great, Anno Dem. 800.
Heros verè magnus, veritate, pietate, sapientia, eruditione & rerum gestarum celebritate nulli cedens. Helv. Chron.
He was Learned in the Greek and Latine Languages, Philosophy, the Mathematicks, and other Sciences he called his pastimes.
A Prince great in Warre and Peace, a great favourer of Justice and Learning, without question the greatest of all Emperours since Constantine the Great, the Phoenix of Germany, another Romulus, and Lycurgus. Joachimus Camerarius makes a rhetoricall comparison between Charles the Great and Augustus Caesar. Pezel Mellif. Histor. parte tertia.
Every Calling hath a promise from God, which Charles the Great exprest in this verse, Nenti fila Deus mentem conjungit Olympo.
Carolus quintus, King of France.
He reigned about the year of our Lord 1360. He was called Charles the Wise, for his great Wisdom and Piety, and especially because he caused the holy Scriptures to be translated into the Vulgar Language, that the common people might understand them. Illyr. Catal. Test Verit.
Exercitui raro praesse solebat; aut si praelium conserendum esset, periculo sese subducebat; ac propterea Sapiens est appellatus. Bod. De Repub. l. 5. c. 4.
Carolus nonus, Charles the 9th, King of France, Anno 1560.
Princeps praeclara indole & magnis virtutibus praeditus, nisi quatenus eas prava educatione & matris indulgentia corrupit, fuit in eo elatus & fortunae par animus, ingenium juxta sagax & acutum, mascula facundia, prudentia supra aetatem, quae plerumque in vafritiem degenerabat: acre in aliorum ingeniis dignoscendis judicium: magna in dispensandis beneficiis cura, & in pensitandis cujusque meritis morositas; ut ab aulicis virtutes ad inexhaustas capiditates suas metientibus minus ob id liberalis haberetur-Caetero qui ad iracundiam praeceps fuit, quae violenta & assidua equitatione ac vigiliis alebatur, & licet summus natura dissimulator esset, nonnunquam per intervalla in fu…orem erumpebat. Unicam puellam Aurelianensem adamasse toto vitae tempore compertus est, ex qua Carolum Arvernorum comitem suscepit. Modicus ut cibi sic & somni, quem etiam nocturni horrores post casum Sanbartholomaeum plerumque interrumpebant, & rursus adhibiti symphoniaci pueri expergefacto Conciliabant. Musica & Poetica summo peredelectabatur. Thuan. Hist. Tomo 3•io Lib. 57.His Life is written by Papyrius Massonius.
He was a Prince that had excellent naturall gifts, but mingled with vices, wherewith his Governours and Schoolmasters had corrupted his young minde, which at the first was more virtuously inclined, delighting in Musick and Poetry. But as he was a great Hunter, that lov'd to shed the blood of wilde beasts, so he suffered also (during his reign) the Protestants blood to be shed, and in revenge thereof of in his sickness before his death, great store of blood issued out by vomiting, and by other passages of his body in the two last weeks of his sickness, wherein he endured as much pain and torment, as the strength of youth could suffer in the last pangs of death.
Andrew Melvin hath these verses to Charles the 9th, dying with an unusuall flux of blood,
Naribus, ore, oculis, atque auribus; undique, & ano,
Et pene erumpit qui tibi, Carle, cruor.
Non tuus iste cruor sanctorum at caede cruorem
Quem ferus hausisti, concoquere hand poteras.
Nath. Carpenter an able Scholar, as his Geography and Philosophia libera shew. Des Cartez, Nobilis Cartesius, Philosopharum hoc aevo Coryphaeus, omni laude dignus propter acumen & solertiam, & heroicos conatus in promovendo Philosophico studio. Mares. Theol. Elenchtic. Nova Synops. Tomo 2do Controvers. 21.Heereboard in his Epistola Dedicat. to his select Disputat. ex Philos. hath a great commendation of him.
Dionysius Carthusiensis.
For his singular holiness of life he was called Doctor Extaticus.
He wrote divers Works, which are in twelve Volumes.
Thomas Cartwright, a Learned and Pious Divine, honourably mentioned by Protestants of other Countries.Thomas Cartwrictus ob Commentationes in Proverbia Salomonis, & in Harmoniam Evangelicam, in qua non solum acumen viri sed & vitae sanctitas mirè elucet, omnibus doctis amabilis. Laeti Compend. Hist. Universal.
His Evangelicall Harmony, Comment on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, Confutation of the Rhemists Translation, Glosses and Annotations, Reply to B. Whitgift, Commentaria practica in totam historicam Evangelicam, and other Works shew his great abilities.
Christopher Cartwright.
A Learned, Pious Divine of Peter-house in Cambridge, not only well skilled in the three Learned Languag…s, Hebrew, Greek and Latine, but also well versed in the Hebrew Rabbins, for which he is honourably mentioned by Voetius in the last Edition of his Bibliotheca, and his Annotations on Genesis and Exodus are well liked by the Learned generally. Mr Pocok styles him Virum eruditssimum, in not. Miscel. c. 4.
Bartholomaeus Casa.Bartholomaeus Casa peculiari libro Castellanorum horrendas lanienas, & Indorum immanissimas interneciones descripfit. Carion. Chron. in Carolo 5to. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. lib. 54. Chiappiae praesul à sacris Caroli V. Confessionibus, petiit ut occupato bellis Europae Caesare miserorum interea Indorum ratio haberetur, & diligenti ab ipso perquisitione facta constitit, in una insula Hispaniola multa millia hominum inaudita, novorum hospitum barbarie misere paucorum annorum spatio extincta esse. Addunt praeterea rem dictu soedam & horroris execrandi plenam, viros eo desparationis adactos, ut ex compacto deinceps a concubitu naturali cum uxoribus abstinuerint, ne liberos sub Hispanorum potestate futuros generarent, eoque factum esse ut tractu temporis tam frequens populo locus ad solitudinem sit redactus. Thuan. Hist. tomo 4to lib. …4.
He hath explained this question, Vtrum Reges vel Principes jure aliquo, & salvâ conscientia cives a regia Corona alienare possint.
John de Casa Archbishop of Benevent.
He wrote a Book in Italian rime, wherein he praiseth and exalteth that horrible sinne of Sodomitry, and names it a Divine work,Joannes Casa Archiepiscopus Beneventanus, Pontificis apud Venetos legatus, horrendo scelere, plus quam detestanda impudentia, id celebrare est ausus; quod nefando quidem pudor ipse nominari sustinet. Foxus contra Osor. lib. 3. pag. 253. Vide Sleid. Comment. lib. 21. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. lib. 16. and affirmeth he took great pleasure therein.
He hath written the life of Bembus and Gasp. Contarenus.
Then the question was (saith Thuanus) concerning Claudius Espencaeus a Divine of Paris, and John Case the Popes Secretary, about making them Cardinals: Nobleness of birth and learning, commended both of them, although different, for one of them being brought up in the study of Divinity, grew old in his profession, the other in eloquence and in the skill of writing elegant Latine, was to be compared with the Ancients; but their manners were very different, Espencaeus excelled in holiness of life and chastity of manners, but Casa in licentiousness, and using the liberty of the place in which he lived, he led his life wantonly, therefore both of them were accused to the Pope by their Competitors; Espencaeus, that he had in a Sermon spoken disgracefully of the golden Legend, as they commonly call it, and that he said it was rather to be called an iron Legend, and afterward he was compelled publickly to recant, as Sleyden relates, the other because he was reported in his youth in verse to have praised that which is abominable, and so for severall causes, both of them lost that dignity.
Jo. Casus, a Learned Oxonian.
He hath put out Ethicks and Politicks and other Works.
Isaac Casaubone, Incomparabilis vir & saeculi sui decus immortale, Isaacus Casaubonus, nunquam sine laude nominandus, nunquam satis laudatus. Salmas. Pra…at. ad Hist. August. Script. Vir longe longeque doctissimus, & mihi dum viveret, amicissimus, meritisque in rem literariam Clatissimus,, in historicis recensendis versatissimus. Salmas. not. in Aelii Spartiani Hadrianum. Casaubono statim à teneris unguiculis sincero vetae pietatis lacte imbuto supperebat rara Linguarum Orientalium cognitio in Graecia vix secundum, nedum parem habebat. Non deerat sacrae, non deerat historicae veritatis illustrandae studium. Jac. Capel. Praefat. ad Vindic. pro Isaaco Casaub.a great Linguist, but a singular Grecian, and an excellent Philologer.
He hath written in 12 Books of his Exercitat. Animadversions on those 12 Tomes of Baronius his Annals.
Scaliger in an Epistle to Casaubone, commends his Book de Satyra, and in another, his Theophrastus his Charecters. It were no difficult task out of Scaligers Epistles, to excerpe Elogies upon most of Casaubons Works.
Incomparabilis vir Isacius Casaubonus divinis in Augustam historiam Cemmentariis. Scalig. Animadvers. in Euseb.
Nihil vidi absolutius Commentario Casauboni in Suetonium. Scalig. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 29. Vide ejus Epist. l. 1, Ep. 35. & Epist. 40. & 50. & 92. & l. 2. Epist. 104, & 106, & 115, 117 l. 3. Ep. 272. l. 4. Ep. 384.
Dr Merick Causabone is also the heir of his Fathers Learning, as his Works shew.
Georg. Cassander.
Anno Christi nascitur M. D. XV. Graecè Latineque doctus, Grammaticus & rhetor insignis, Historicus eximius: sunt qui & inter Theologiae peritos ei locum dare velint, alii aliter de eo sentientes dicunt, quod dum haereticorum libros nimis incautè legit, corundem erroribus se & sua contaminasse, quodque haereseos notam vix effugerit. Swertii Athenae Belgicae. Cassander revera vir probus, & candidus modestusque, & unitatis studiosus, schisma fugitans, bono animo ac sedulo egit quicquid in negotio componendarum religionum operae contulit. Ex partibus adversariorum pontificius ipse veniens, & è Castris suis longius progressus▪ per multum itineris spatium nobis ultro obviam occurrit, amicè ad Concordiam invitavit. Cujus spem ut faceret fiduciamque proniorem, multa deformata & reformanda agnoscit: ita plurima excusat, ut etiam alia non pauca incuset. In summa, ab hoste non potuere meliora aut molliora sperari vel expectari. Salmas. in Posthum. Grotii. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 37.Vir doctus & moderatus. Thuanus. A man professing himself a Roman Catholick, though of wonderfull modesty, moderation and Learning. Mountag. Answ. to the Gagger of Protest. Sect. 36.
A man famous for his immoderate moderation in Controversall points of Religion. Smect.
He was a man of such note and eminency in his time, that two Emperours, viz. Ferdinand the first, and Maximilian the second, made choice of him above all, as a man most meet to compose (if it might be) the difference betwixt Protestants and them of the Church of Rome, as Dr Featly hath observed.
Cassandra Fidelis Veneta, Nata 1465. Puella doctissima.
Fidelium Familia, à fide nomen adepra, primùm Mediolani ortum agnovit. Tomas. Elog.Politian *Epist. l. 3. Ep. 17. Certum est enim, non minus ad eam invisendam, quam ad Livium nostrum Patavinum olim, ab ultimis orbis partibus confluisse plurimos, qui sui seculi ornamentum, sexus miraculum, & ingenii monstrum depraedicabant. Tomasini Illust. Vir. Vitae. Vide plura ibid.writes a whole Epistle in her commendation.
He begins it thus,
O Decus Italiae virgo: quas dicere grates: quasve referre parem: quod etiam honore me tuarum literarum non dedignaris: mira profecto fides: tales proficisci a foemina: quid autem a foemina dico: immo vero a puella, & virgine potuisse.
Again, At vero aetate nostra: qua pauci quoque virorum caput al…ius in literis extulerunt: unicam te tamen existere puellam: quae pro lana librum: pro fuso calamum: stylum pro acu tractes.
Afterwards, Scribis Epistolas Cassandra subtiles: acutas: elegantes: latinas: & quanquam puellari quadam gratia: virginali quadam simplicitate dulcissimas: tamen etiam mire graves & Cordatas. Orationem quoque tuam legimus eruditam: locupletem: sonoram: illustrem: plenamque laetae indolis. Sed nec extemporalem tibi deesse facultatem accepimus: quae magnos etiam oratores aliquando destituit.
Mirari equidem ante hac Joannem Picum Mirandulam solebam: quo nec pulchrior alter mortalium nec in omnibus (arbitror) doctrinis excellentior. Ecce. nunc etiam te Cassandra: post illum protinus caepi: fortasse jam cum illo quoque venerari.
Jo. Cassianus, Anno Domini 430.
He was Chrysostoms Scholar.
Most of his Works are mentioned in Oxford and Sion-Colledge Catalogue.
M. Aurel Cassiodorus, he wrote about the year of our Lord 520, or 530.
His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.Edidit Rave… na Ioh…nne… 17 Pon…ficum Romanum …assiodorum Senatorem virum doctum, elegantem que scriptorem, qui postea monachus effectus, multa que literarum monumenta reliquit. Leand. Alb. Descript. tor. Ital. in Romanula.
Petrus Cassiodorus.
He hath written de tyrannide Pontificis Romani.
Petrus Castellanus.
Aureliarum Episcopus, Francisco rege & Errico, literis in Gallia nostra velut Apollo alter praefuit. Turneb. Advers. l. 24.
He hath written four Books de Esu Carnium.
Petrus Castellanus a Learned Physitian.Vir melioris lit…eraturae ac reconditioris eruditionis laude insignis. Ant. Sand. De Scriptoribus Flandtiae, lib. 3.
He hath written a Book entitled Vitae illustrium Medicorum veterum & recentiorum.
Alphonsus à Castro, one of the Doctors of the Councell of Trent.Hispanus natus Toleti.
He is commended by Vega for the most forcible Adversary against Luther. Vega l. 16. de Justif.
He hath written contra Haereses.
Ambrosius Cathurinus. His Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.Contra Tridentini Conciliabali, cui ipsemet inter fuit, decretum, ad extremum usque spiritum intrepidè asse…uit, posse hominem in hac vita salutis suae certunt esse. Smeton. ad Hamilton. Apostat. Orthodox. Resp.
Frier Dominicus Soto, who had a great part in the Synod of Trent, in framing the Decrees of Originall sinne, and Justification, having noted all the opinions and reasons used in those Discussions, thought to communicate them unto the world, and to draw the words of the Decree to his own meaning, printed a Book containing the whole together, and did intitle it De Natura & Gratia, and did Dedicate it with an Epistle to the Councell, to be (as he said in the Dedication) a Commentary of the two foresaid Decrees. Coming to the Article of the certainty of grace, he said in a long Discourse, that the Synod had declared, that a man cannot know he hath grace by so great Certainty, as is that of Faith, excluding all doubt. Catarinus newly made Bishop of Minori, having defended the contrary, and still persevering, did print a little book, with an Epistle Dedicatory to the same Synod; the scope whereof was, to maintain that the Councels meaning was not to condemn the opinion of him that saith A just man may know he hath grace, as certainly as he knoweth the Articles of Faith to be true: yea that the Councell hath decided that he is bound to beleeve it, because in the 26 Canon it hath condemned him that faith, That the just man ought not to hope for and expect a reward, it being necessary, that he that ought to hope as a just man, should know he is so. In this contrariety of opinions, both writing affirmatively to the Councell; either of them did not only say that his opinion was the opinion of the Synod, but afterwards wrote also and Printed Apologies and Antipologies, making complaints to the Synod the one of the other, of attributing that to it, which it never said, bringing divers testimonies of the Fathers to prove their own opinion: who bare witness some for one, some for another. This seemed to put all men out of hope to understand the meaning of the Councell, seeing the principall men that were present in it did not agree. History of the Con…c. of Trent, l. 2. p. 229, 230.
Cato, he was called Cato Censorius to distinguish him from Cato Vticensis.
Vide elogium ejus apud Valer. Max. l. 8. c. 7. Quis illo gravior in laudando? acerbior in vituperando? in sententiis argutior? in docendo disserendoque subtilior? Refertae sunt ejus orationes amplius centum & quinquaginta, & verbis, & rebus illustribus. Caussin. eloquent. Sac. & Human. Parallel. l. 1. c. 42. Vide Liv. Hist. l. 39. c. 40.Pliny l. 7. c. 21. gives him a threefold Elogy, he saith he was Optimus Orator, optimus Imperator, optimus Senator, the best Orator, the best Commander, the best Senator.
M. Porcius Cato Censorius, historicus eximius, & aliis quoque nominibus laudatissimus. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 5.
Plutarch wrote his life.
Catullus *Tu modò, qui Catullum ex polieris, da opo…m, ut in Tibullo & Propertio, qui locum i…li proximum in elegantia verborum, atque in sententiarum concinnitate obtinent? quam simillimum tui te praebens: ita tres pulcherrimi poetae, & sine dubio inter Latinos in illo festivo genere principes, veterem suum splendorem, ereptum vetustare, atque hominum inscitia, tuo maxime studio recuperabunt. Manut. Epist. 14. Marco Antonio Mureto., Dulcissimus omnium poetarum & politissimus. Turneb. Advers. l. 12. c. 1.
Jacobus Cavacius. There is his Historia Caenobii D. Justinae Patavinae.
Nemo forte melius nostra hac aetate monstravit quid valeat vivida, & foelix ingenii ab ipsa natura vis, quam Jacobus Cavacius condiscipulus olim noster & amicus omnium horarum. Historiarum libri sex brevissimo temporis intervallo absoluti, eruditorum manibus teruntur, quos Phoenix Litteratorum Isaacus Casaubonus unicè mirabatur. Pignorii Miscella Elog. Ad clamat. &c.
Jacobus Sirmondus and he were Confessors to Lewis the 13th, King of France.Nicol. Caussinus, a very eloquent French Papist, and yet living.
There are these Works of his,
Eloquentiae Sacrae & humanae Paralela.
De Symbolica Aegyptiorum Sapientia.
Polyhistor Symbolicus.
La Cour Saincte.
Thesaurus Graecae Poescos.
Many of his Works are translated into English.
Aurelius Cornelius Celsus *Latinus Hippocrates Medicis dicitur Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, quod Hippocra…em fere torum in Latinam linguam converterit, & medicinam omnium Latinorum princeps ita absolverit, ut aemulari potius multi quam assequi parem laudem possent. Ejusdem medicinae libri octo adhuc excusi habentur. Neand. Geog., a Learned Physitian. Vir in omni disciplina summus, Augusti principatu, vel Tiberii floruit. Castellanus de vitis medicorum. Vide plura ibid. Hippocrates ille Romanus.
He imitates Hippocrates, as Marcellus doth Scribonius, Virgill Homer, and Oribasius Galene, sed tam occulte, ut non facile deprehendas, nisi in Hippocrate multum sis versatus. Caius de libris propriis.
Conradus Celtes. Conradus Celtis erat Philosophus Orator, atque Mathematicus insignis. Inprimis autem artem Poeticam excoluit, atque in usum studiosorum magna cum laude reduxit. In ea facultate cum natura etiam excelleret, à Caesare Maximiliano Poeta laureatus creatus fuit, anno aetatis trigesimo quinto, atque salutis nostrae 1494. Pantal. de Vir. Illust. parte 2da. Conradus Celtes homo doctissimus floruit Viennae ci…citer ante 100 annos. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 19.He was in esteem in the time of Frederick the Emperour, by whom, through the perswasion of the Duke of Saxony, he was adorned with a Poeticall Lawrell in the 32 year of his age, and was the first of the Germanes that was honoured with this title. Boxhorn. Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog. Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 3. c. 10.
He and Eobanus Hessus were two of the most famous Poets of Germany.
He hath put out severall Works:
Index eorum omnium quae in orationem venire possunt.
De situ & moribus Germaniae.
De Conscribendis Epistolis.
Vrbis Norembergae descriptio, Poemata: and other Works.