Treatise of Religion and Learning, Book 3 · Chapter 15
CHAP. XV.
Joh. Dallaeus Ecclesiastes Parisiensis in erudito suo opere, cujusmodi sunt omnia illius de usu Patrum. Mares. Theol. Elencht. Nov. Syn. tom. 2. Controvers. 30JOhn Daillè, a Learned French Divine.
My Lord Falkland and Mr Chillingworth made very much use of him in all their Writings against the Romanists. The Lord Falkland was wont to say, it was worth a voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him; he cals him our Protestant Perron.
He hath written severall Books in French and Latine.
One, Of the Right use of the Fathers, translated into English, and highly esteemed.
Against Milletier.
A most accurate Commentary De Imaginibus.
An Apology for the French Churches.
A most accurate Demonstration of Faith out of the Scriptures.
De Satisfactionibus & Poenis.
De Pseudepigraphis.
De Jejuniis & Quadragesima, an elegant Piece.
Anno Aerae Christi 727. Calvis. Chron. 716. Helv. Vir ut apparet, sui saeculi eruditissimus, & in veterum monimentis versatissimus. Dalleus De Pseudepig. Apost. lib. 3. cap. 19.John Damascene, 740.
He was born in Damascus, See Act. 9.2.
One that laid the Foundation of School Divinity amongst the Greeks, as Peter Lombard afterward did among the Latines.
He was the first amongst the Greeks which hath handled Divinity in Philosophicall terms, and who wrote for the adoration of Images, therefore they put him among their Saints.
Augusti Caesaris amicus: qui & ab eo placentis, vel potius dactylis Nicolaorum nomen imposuit. Voss. ibid.Nicolaus Damascenus.
Vastissimae eruditionis vir, nec sine laude nominandus. Vossius de Rat. Stud.
Fuit Episcopus Ostiensis, & floruit circa annum 1050. Is multis in locis corruptelas Ecclesiae suorum temporum perstringit. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 12.Pet. Damianus. There are his Epistolae cum aliis opusculis. De Institut. Ecclesiast. and other Works.
Damasus the first Pope, a Spaniard: He had an elegant wit in composing verses, as Jerom and Suidas say.Vir in divinis Scripturis eruditissimus: & in saecularibus litteris egregiè doctus: rhetor & poeta celeberrimus: & in componendis versibus peritissimus: ingenio subtilis: vita devotus atque sanctissimus, claruit sub Valentiano & Valente Anno Dom. CCCLXX. Bibl. Hispan. Tom. 2.
He appointed the Psalms to be sung alternis vicibus in the Church, and in the end of them these words were added, Gloria patri, filio, & spiritui sancto. Matth. Westm. & alii.
He first gave authority to Jeroms Writings, when before the Writings of the Septuagint were only esteemed. Platina.
Lambertus Danaeus, a French Divine of Orleance.Quin & Lambertus Danaem, vir sanè …pprimè eruditus, & de instruendis aliis optimè meritus, Physicam suam Theologicam, tam ex veteri quam novo Codice non inutili labore extruxit. Tych. Brah. Epist. Astron. l. 1. Christ. Rothman. Quaecunque … Doctissime Danaee, habere hactenus potui, ea cum magna animi voluptate legi, & non fine fructu. Quam vero in tuis scriptis observavi tum singularem pietatem, tum eruditionem non vulgarem: ea effecit ut re pridem observaverim atque coluerim, quanquam nihil unquam tibi significavi de meo erga te animo. Zanch. Epist. l. 2. ad Lambertum Danaeum. Libellus tuus de Antichristo accuratissimè conscriptus. Nihil adhuc legi in hoc genere brevius simul & luculentius. Id. ibid. In Patribus & Scholastica Theologia ita versatus fuit, ut non facile crediderim extitisse aliquem, qui in illo studiorum genere hunc antecelluerit. Meurs. Athen Bat. l. 2.
Petrus Danesius.
He was most skilfull in the Greek tongue, and Professor of it in the reign of Francis the first King of France. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 64.
He was at the Councell of Trent, and a Doctor of Divinity of Paris there making an Oration against the abuse of Benefices at Rome; another mocking said to his fellows, Gallus cantat, the Frenchman sings, or the Cock crows: to whom Petrus Danesius wittily replied, Vtinam Gallicinio Petrus ad resipiscentiam & fletum excitetur.
Olim Francisci 11. praeceptor, & ob id Vaurensi Episcopatu donatus, homo doctissimus, quanquam nullis editis scriptis, meruit, ut inter doctrina & literis politioribus praestantes hujus aevi viros numeretur. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 63. Vide Scaev. Samarth. Elog. Gall.
Dantes Aligherius. Poeta sui saeculi nulli secundus, Italus natione, Durantes ab initio vocatus, interciso deinde, ut fit in pueris, vocabulo, Dantes. Natus anno 1265. libera libus artibus in Patria legitime cruditus, poetitae deditus ab ipsa pueriria fuit. Scripsit opusculum de Monarchia, ubi ejus fuit opinio quòd imperium ab Ecclesia minime dependerer. Cujus rei gratia tanquam haereticus post ejus exitum damnatus est, cum aliorum, tum Bartoli jurisperiti sententia super lege 1. c. praesules lib digestorum de inquirendis reis. Volatarrani Anthropol. l. 21. p. 771. Petrarcha & Dantis poemata illa Italica quae statum Ecclesiae subinde attingunt, prae aliis poetis potissimum leguntur à Theologis. Voet. Biblioth. l. 2. Sect. prior. c. 8. Dantes Algerius & Franciscus Petrarcha, primi Philosophiae, bonarum artium, & omnis eruditionis restauratores. Heereb. Epist. Dedicat. ad Disputat. ex Philos. select. Dantes Florentinus floruit ante annos 280. fuit vir pius & doctus, ut multi scriptores, & praesertim ipsius scripta testantur. Scripsit librum quem appellavit Monarchiam. In eo probavit Papam non esse supra Imperatorem nec habere aliquod Imperium. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 18.patria Florentinus. Boissard. Icon.
His Life is written by Paprius Massonus.
Dantes, the first Italian Poet of note, being a great and wealthy man in Florence. He lived in the time of Ludovicus the Emperour, about the year of our Lord 1300. and took part with Marsilius Patavinus against three sorts of men, which he said were enemies to the truth: that is, the Pope. Secondly, the order of Religious men. Thirdly, the Doctors and Decretals.
His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.
Dantes quidam Alligherius quidam ut aiebat, à Dante Florentino poeta. Polit. Miscel. Cont. 1. c. 19. Vide Pier. Valer. De Literatorum infeliciate l. 1.
Claudius Dausqueius.
He hath put out these Works,Vir egregiae doctrinae, & industriae, ac de re literaria optimè moritus. Voss. De Vitiis Sermonis, lib. 1. cap. 20.
S. Pauli Apostoli sanctitudo in utero, extra, in solo, caelo.
Conciliabuli Dordraceni ascia.
Antiqui, novique Lat. Orthographica.
John Davenant Bishop of Salisbury, a Learned and Judicious Divine, as his Exposition of the Colossians, his Praelectiones de duobus in Theologia Controversis capitibus, de Judice Controversiorum, & de Justitia habituali & actuali, his Determinations and other Works, both in Latine and English shew.
Philippus Decius.Qui Concilio Pisano interfuit, inque eo causam Cardinalium adversus.
The most famous Lawyer of Italy in his time. He died Anno salutis Christianae M.D.XXXV.
His Works are mentioned by Boissard, and many of them in the Oxford Catalogue.
Pontificem Julium secundum defendit. Gerh. Confess. Cath. l. 1. General. part. 2. c. 3.
Perspicaci ingenio praeditus, praecipu… que industria & subtilitate quae sunt Philosophica, tractat. Tych. Brah. De Nova Stella, l. 1. c. 9.John Dee, a Learned Englishman.
There are severall Works of his published.
De praestantioribus naturae viribus.
Monas Hieroglyphica.
Propaedeumata, Aphoristica.
Mathematicall Preface to Enclides Elements.
Parallaticae Commentationis praxeosque nucleus quidam.
Eruditus is tractatulus sanè, apprimé que ingeniosus, nec parùm ad Paralaxium differentias enucleandas at que ab invicem discernendas conducens. Tych. Brah. De nova Stella. c. 9.
His generall and rare Memorials.
Martinus Antonius Delrio is much commended by Philippus Alegambe in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu, Brugensis patriâ, Hispanus origine, vir maximis hujus aevi Heroibus adnumerandus, Poeta, Orator, Historicus, Jurisconsultus, Theologus, variorum item idiomatum scientissimus fuit Anton. Sand. de Brugensibus eruditione claris, l. 1.as a great Linguist and generall Scholar: but Joseph Scaliger in his Elench, Trihaeres. Serar. as much slights him.
He hath published divers Works, many of which are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.
Demosthenes, his force in pleading is commended.
Sequitur Oratorum ingens manus, cùm decem simul Athenis aeras una tulerit: quorum longè princeps Demosthenes, ac penè lex orandi fuit, tanta vis in eo, tam densa omnia, ita quibusdam nervis intenta sunt, tam nihil ociosum; is dicendi modus, ut ne quod defit in eo, nec quod redundet invenias. Quintil. Institut. Orat. l. 10. c. 1. Vide Vossii Epist. ad Artem Grammaticam. Inclarescit An. Dom. 3587. Aute Christum natum 361. Calvis. Chron. 3614. Helv. Chron. In Demosthene absoluta est linguae illiu… vis ac gratia. Lud. Viv. de trad. Discip. l. 3. Legi omnes penè Orationes Demosthenis. Dicuntur illius germanae sexaginta quinque: quarum elegantiores quae ad populum, quam quae ad Senatum habitae, à pluribus judicantur. Phosii Bibliotheca, p. 1466.Qui populum flectit, de mulcet, mitigat, urget,
Nominat hunc tellus Attica vim populi.
Paschasii Icones.
His Book de Corona is most esteemed.
He wrote out Thucidides eight times, that he might better imitate him in his Orations. See in Plutarks Lives a witty reply of his to the thief Chalcus.
Thomas Dempster *He penned a work of 5000 illustrious Scots., a Learned Scotchman. Multisciae lectionis & eruditionis vir. Dilher. Disput. Acad.
Eruditus Scotus, beneque de literis meritus. Voss. de vitiis Sermonis, l. 1. c. 10.
He hath published,
Antiquitatum Rom. corpus absolutissimum.
Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum, Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam, Scotorum Scriptorum nomenclatura.
De Juramento l. 3. and other Works.
John Deodate, an eminent Divine, as his Annotations on the Bible in Italian and French shew.
Videlius Rational. Theol. l. 2. c. 6. cals them Aureas Annotationes.
He was sent from Genevah to the Synod of Dort.
Vir Reverendus & jampridem optimè de Ecclesia merens D. Joannes Deodatus, doctissima versione Gallica & notis. Cocc. Praefat. ad Job.
Edward Dering, a solid Divine.
He defended Bishop Jewell against Harding.
And hath published some Sermons and Lectures on some of the first Chapters of the Hebrews.
Flander, Grammaticorum Coryphaeus, & Flandriae Priscianus ubique celeber & in scholis receptus, Swertii Athenae Belgicae. Ne suus Belgis deesset Priscianus, Ninive, quae Ninovia vulgò, Flandriae oppidum, Joannem Despauterium, Grammaticorum sui temporis Coryphaeum extulit. Ut & in Synodo Machliniensi Patres Alexandro a villa Dei, & aliis explosis, unum illum inventuti in manus eradendum decreverint. Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg.Jo Despauterius, the Prince of the Grammarians of his age, so Vossius de Arte Grammatico, l. 1. c. 3.
He had but one eye.
Hic jacet unoculus, visu praestantior Argo,
Nomen Ioannes, cui Ninivita fuit.
Joannes Ninivita, sine malis Despauterius, (Nec enim vir, bene adeò de literatura pro illo quidem tempore meritus, indignus est vulgatiore nomine chartis nostris signari etsi aliter Grande quià spirantibus videatur.) Nobilis ille Grammaticus. Vossius De vitiis Sermonis, l. 1. c. 6.
Antonius Densingius, a Learned Physitian.
Burgersdicius was his Master in Physick and Logick. Golius for the Mathematicks and Arabick. He was intimate with Constantine L' Empereur, Ludovicus de Dieu and Elichmannus, who were skilfull in many of the Orientall Languages.
His Works are mentioned Vit. Profes. Groningae.Fuit historicus & Poeta. Hic primum. A quileiae Diaconus, mox ob egregios mores & doctrinam, Desiderio Longobardorum regi Charissimus, & apud cum ab Epistolis & secretis fuit. Lil. Gyraeld. De Poet. Hist. Dial. 5.
Paulus Diaconus.
These Works of his are published,
Hist. Miscellae auctae à Landulpho Sagaci, & illustratae ab Hen. Canisio.
Ab Ant. Augustino Epitome. De gestis Romanorum.
David Dickson, a good Scottish Expositour.
He hath written Notes on all Pauls Epistles in Latine, on the Psalms, Matthew and the Hebrews in English.
Didymus Caecus, Anno Dom. 360. Jeroms Master, he was much regarded by the ancient Fathers.Didymus Grammaticus ab assiduis laboribus dictus foreign, quasi aenea habens intestina. Dilh. Laudat. Funch. Gerh. Dydimus Alexandrinus, captus à parva aetate oculis, & ob id, elementorum quoque ignarus, tantum miraculum sui omnibus praebuit, ut Dialecticam quoque & Geometriam, quae vel maximè visu indigent, usque ad perfectum didicerit. Hieron. De Illust. Eccles. Script. Didymus Alexandrinus, cùm quinquennis oculorum visum amisisset, diligentia eò eruditionis pervenit, ut omnes excellere videretur, ideoque ab Athanasio Scholae Alexandrinae praefectus fuerat. Hic Originem adeo admiratus est, ut omnia ejus dicta pro oraculis haberet, unde non exigua in Ecclesiam redundavit perturbatio. Calvis. Chronol.
He was an Ecclesiasticall Writer, and an excellent Mathematician. He much troubled the Arians, whilst he constantly defended the doctrine of the Councell of Nice. Antony that great Monk of Egypt coming to Alexandria, thus spake to him, Non grave tibi, nec molestum debet esse, Didyme, illis carere oculis, quorum lacertae, mures, & alia minuta abjectaque animalia participia sunt, sed beatum & jucundum potiùs, quod oculos habes similes Angelorum, quibus verè Deum contemplaris. Sozom. l. 3. c. 14.
Aubertus Miraeus in the 7th Decade of his Elogia Belgica, mentions Carolus Fernandus, Parsevaldas Belligenius, and Nicasius Vordanus, for Learned (though blinde) men.
Ludovicus de Dieu, a French Minister, well skil'd in the Orientall tongues, and who hath Commented well on the Evangelists and Acts, and also a pious man.Lud. de Dius Vir in linguâ Syriacà incomparabilis. Dilb. Disput. Acad. Tom. 2. Quem, quotiescunque ipsius in scriptis meis mentionem facio, per conscientiam nequeo quin encomiis extollam, qui tanta pietate, theologiae verae, artium, & linguarum ferme omnium cognitione syderis instar ex alto corruscantis eminet. Constantini L' Empereur Epist. Dedicat. ad Itinerarium Benjaminis.
Ille Phoenix sacrae Philologiae. Dilh. Disput. Acad. Tom. 1.
He hath translated a Persian book written by Xaverius into Latine, and hath published it together with the Persian Originall, and Notes.
Sir James Dier, a Reverend Father of the Common-Law, and Chief Justice of the Common-pleas.
His Book entitled Vn Abridgement de tous les cases, was printed after his decease, in Anno 25. reg. Eliz.
Everard Digby.
He hath published these Works,
Admonitioni Fran. Mildappetti de unica Pet. Rami methodo retinenda responsio.
De duplici methodo, lib. 2.
Theor. Anal. De arte Natandi.
Sir Kenelm Digby is an ingenious Learned Gentleman, and an ornament of this Nation, as his Book of Bodies shews.
Leonard Digges.
There are these Works of his,
Prognostication everlasting, a Mathematicall Discourse of Geometricall Solids.
Generosi Stemmatis vir & eximius Mâthematicus Thomas Diggeseus Anglus. Tych. Brah. l. 1. De Nova Stella. c. 9.Thomas Digges his sonne.
There is a Book of his named Stratioticos.
Another styled Pantometria, lib. 3.
Nova Corpora Regularia.
And another styled Alae seu scalae Mathematicae. Of which Work Tycho Brahe l. 1. De Nova Stella, c. 9. gives this censure,
Etsi verò admodum eruditum & ingeniosum sit hoc scriptum, at que Mathematum excellentem peritiam prae se ferat: tamen si liceat, id quod res est, dicere, in recessu intimo, quod primo accessu, & tam magnifico specioso que titulo spondet, quàm minimum prastat. Nam ne Stellae quidem novae, cujus principaliter ratio habenda fuit, Phoenomena, prout decuit, commodè explicata: nedum ut Planetarum omnium itinera inaccessa novo modo expediat. Vide plura ibid.
John Michael Dilber, Gerhards Scholar, Publick Professor at Jena, a Learned Critick, as his Electa, Eclogae, his Disputationes Academicae shew.
Legimus Diodori Siculi Historiarum libros quadraginta, qui universam quandam mundi continent historiā. Stylo utitur perspicuo, nec affectato, sed qui historiam maximè deceat. Triginta annos, ut de se fatetur, huic scribendae historiae impendit, variis interim regionibus discendi gratia peragratis periculisque ut fit, obitis, ac superatis Photii Bibliothec. p. 103. Ex Aegypto sive Aegyptio Siciliae Civitate Siculus appellatus, quem Plinius inter Graecos ait des…isse nugari: Justinus Martyr celeberrimum Graecorum Historicorum. Eusebius autem Pamphili illustrem virum appellarunt: totos triginta annos in condenda Bibliotheca se insumpsisse, & magnam Europae atque Asiae partem magnis cum aerumnis, atque periculis peragrasse testatur. Possev. Biblioth. Select. Tom. 2. l. 16. c. 14, Diodorus Siculus quadraginta libris bibliothecam sive historiam mille centum & triginta octo annorum condit, qui terminantur Caesaris expeditione contra Gallias. Geneb. Chronol. l. 2. Vide Voss. De Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 2.Diodorus Siculus.
He searched out the Antiquities of Nations with greatest diligence. A most famous Writer, and to whom for the knowledge of Antiquity, Greece hath scarce his equall.
He saith he bestowed thirty years about his History. Paulus Aemilius spent thirty yeares about his French History. Paulus Jovius thirty seven in his History.
4238. Diogenes Laertius videtur Philosophorum vitas & alia scripsisse. Geneb. Chron. lib. 3.Diogenes Laertius. He hath written well the Lives of the ancient Philosophers.
Dio Cassius, Anno aerae Christianae 218. Helv. Chron.
Scripsit Dion Historiarum libros octoginta, inchoando ab Aeneae in Italiam adventu, & Alba Urbe, ac Româ conditâ. Unde continenter pergebat, & in ejus qui Heliogaebalus est cognominatus, caede finivit. Sed primi triginta quatuor libri periere: sequentes viginti quinque extant; qui inde sequebantur, pariter interciderunt. Whear. Method. leg. Hist. part. 1. Sect. 20.An ancient grave Historian, a Consull himself.
Vir & doctrinâ, & prudentiâ & nobilitate insignis: Nam & viro Consulari natus, & ipse bis consulatum gessit; & Praetor Africae, Dalmatiae ac Pannoxiae praefectus est. Crakanth. de Providentia Dei.
It is one of the Laws of History to relate only things memorable, this Law he diligently observed.
Nusquam ad minutias dilabitur, vel si quid, quod levins videatur, minimè praeterire volet, excusatione utitur: ut facilè liqueat, neutiquam imprudentiâ, vel inscitia peccare. Ger. Joan. Vos. Ars Histor. c. 11.
Dion Chrysostomus.
He was sirnamed Chrysostom for his Eloquence, whose 80 Greek Orations were long since published at Venice.
Amongst other of his Orations, that Oration is of all most copious, de Ilio à Gracis nunquam Capto.