Note 763 — Chapter XV · CALVIN AT FERRARA. (Winter and Spring.)
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See Vol. IV. bk. vii. ch. 18.
[764] 'Sic versari in studiis nostris, ut excellat. . . . Sed ob magnitudinem ingenii et studium sanctitatis quæ in ista semper veluti divinum aliquid eluxit, retulit se ad cœlestes artes et ad disciplinas theologicas.'—Paleario, Epp. iv. 4.
[765] A. Frizzi, Guida per la città di Ferrara, p. 43.—Bonnet, Calvin à la cité d'Aoste.
[766] 'Sotto abito finto.'—Muratori, Annali d'Italia, xiv. p. 305.
[767] Varillas.
[768] A madame la duchesse de Ferrare.—Lettres françaises de Calvin, i. p. 44. There is no date to this letter, and it may possibly belong to the following year, 1537. At page 154, Calvin refers to a book that Capito had written 'naguères,' not long ago, and that work, De Missa, dedicated to Henry VIII., bears the date of 15 March 1537.
[769] 'Sans décliner ni de çà ni de là.'
[770] 'Talmente infetto Renea degli errori sui, che non si potè mal trarle di cuore il bevuto veleno.'—Muratori, Annali d'Italia, xiv. p. 305.
[771] Letter of 1537 addressed to Renée, duchess of Ferrara.
[772] Beza, Vita Calvini, p. 21.
[773] See the Letters dated the 8th and 24th January and the 4th April 1564, in Mons. J. Bonnet's Recueil. Calvin died on the following 4th May.
[774] 'Poichè non solo confermò nell' errore la duchessa Renata, ma più altri ancora sedusse.'—Muratori, Antichità Estensi, ii. ch. xiii.
[775] 'Quali venustate canas.'—Gyraldus, Epistola dedicatoria, Hist. Poetarum.
[776] 'Ut Græcos autores intrepide evolvas.'—Ibid.
[777] Bayle, Dictionary, sub voce Anne de Parthenay, iii. p. 600.
[778] Beza, Hist. ecclés. i. p. 127.
[779] Maimbourg, Hist. du Calvinisme, p. 62.
[780] Jules Bonnet, Olympia Morata, p. 43.
[781] Calvin, passim.
[782] Œuvres de Marot.
[783] Moreri, Grand Dictionnaire historique, vi. p. 317.
[784] Bayle, Dictionnaire hist. et crit. iv. p. 142.
[785] Beza, Hist. des Eglises réformées, i. p. 127.
[786] Bayle, Dictionnaire, iv. p. 142.
[787] Thuanus, lib. xxviii.
[788] See the Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme français, Paris, 1860, p. 168.—Documents historiques inédits et originaux, communiqués par M. de Triqueti.
[789] Histoire de l'Inquisition en France, par De la Mothe, vol. ii. pp. 538, 603, &c.—Bevilacqua is Boileau translated into Italian. Some of the Drinkwaters and Boileaus of England claim to belong to the same family.
[790] In the Bulletin du Protestantisme français for 1860, p. 170, we read:—'About the year 1840 the duke of Bevilacqua showed to Sir John Boileau the portrait of Calvin, painted by Titian on this occasion, and offered him a copy of it. I have had many opportunities of seeing it at London in Sir John's house.' M. de Triqueti, whose words we have just quoted, speaks of another portrait of Calvin painted by Titian, purchased in 1860, at a public sale in Paris. We ourselves have seen in one of the Italian picture galleries a portrait of Calvin also assigned to Titian. There is one in the public library of Geneva, and several are to be found in various Italian museums (Stählin: Johannes Calvin, ii. p. 7); but these are rather pictures painted by Titian's pupils and touched up by the master, as was the custom of the teacher and his students in those days.
[791] Letter to the duchess of Ferrara, in the Lettres françaises de Calvin, i. p. 47.
[792] 'Un sien traité.'—Ibid. i. p. 48.
[793] Calvin in the editio princeps (March 1536) of his Institutes treats of the Lord's Supper at pages 236-284.
[794] A la duchesse de Ferrare.—Lettres françaises de Calvin, i. p. 48.
[795] A la duchesse de Ferrare.—Lettres françaises de Calvin, pp. 47, 48.
[796] Ibid.—The letter to the duchess of Ferrara was written later; but what we have quoted above refers to Calvin's sojourn at Ferrara, when he had these conversations with Master François.
[797] A la duchesse de Ferrare.—Lettres françaises de Calvin, i. p. 45.
[798] A la duchesse de Ferrare.—Lettres françaises de Calvin, p. 54.
[799] 'Comment il faut éviter,' &c. Des Gallars, Calvin's friend, says in his edition of the reformer's Opuscules (1552), 'Epistolas duas edidit, quas de hâc re ad quosdam amicos ex Italia scripserat.' The latest editors of Calvin's works say in the prolegomena to vol. v. (Brunswick, 1866): 'Eas in itinere Italico, anno 1536, suscepto, Calvinum scripsisse dicit Colladonius.' Colladon was one of the reformer's intimate friends. The first of these writings contains (in the French edition) 38 pages folio, and the second 35.
[800] Calvin, Opuscules français (1566), p. 82.
[801] Ibid. pp. 58, 62, 64, 73, 74, 84, &c.
[802] Calvin, Opuscules français (1566), pp. 58, 59, 84, 92.
[803] Quel est l'office de l'homme chrétien en administrant ou rejetant les bénédictions de l'Eglise papale? Jean Calvin à un ancien ami à présent prélat.—Opuscules français, pp. 36, 37.
[804] Opuscules français, p. 108.
[805] Ibid. p. 124.
[806] Ibid. p. 128.
[807] Ibid. p. 129.
[808] 'Più dannoso all' Italia fu il soggiorno che, per qualche tempo, fece occultamente Calvino, sotto il nome di Carlo d'Heppeville, alla corte di Ferrara, circa il 1535.'—Tiraboschi, Hist. de la Litt. ital. vii. p. 358.