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Fierce attack on the famous Leiden professor J.J. Scaliger

DELRIO, Martin Antoine, S.J.
Peniculus foriarum elenchi Scaligeriani pro Societate Iesu, Maldonato, Delrio. Auctore Liberio Sanga Verino Cantabro ad clarum Bonarscium Belgam.





Metelloburgi Mattiacorum (=Antwerp), Apud Haeredes Matthianos, 1609. 12mo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. (9), 10-203 pp.

Rare first and only edition of a fierce attack on J.J. Scaliger by Martin Antoine Delrio (1551-1608), a learned Jesuit and jurist was born in Antwerp as the son of a Spanish nobleman. After his studies in Paris and Salamanca, but before he entered the Jesuit Order in Vallladolid in 1580 he was a.o. one of the judges of the Inquisition in the  Netherlands, the so-called "Blood Council". In 1580 he was sent to Louvain to study theology. From 1589 till 1604 he teached at the Jesuit Universities in Douai, Zürich, Louvain, Graz and Salamanca. He became famous by his merciless work on witchcraft and magic, his Disquisitionem magicarum libri sex (Mainz, 1624), testifying of the furious atmosphere during the Counter-Reformation in Europe.
The actual attack is on the work of the learned and world-wide renowned Joseph Josephus Scaliger (1540-1609), 'the miracle of his age', who was the most famous professor at the Leiden University from 1593 till his death in 1609. Scaliger was born in Southern France and became a Calvinist in 1562. In 1572 he moved to Geneva where he was appointed professor.

Contents: p. 1-2: Title; verso: citation (Proverb. XXVI:5) 'Responde stulto iusxta stultitiam suam' setting really the tone for this attack on the famous scholar J.J. Scaliger); p. 3-4: Preface; p. 5-8: Contents; p. 9-103 (=203): Text, dated Juliobriga, 26 June 1606.

Good copy with contemporary ms. ownership entry: Joa. van Doornick).- Good copy.- (Vellum sl. stained; some browning at places).
De Backer-Sommervogel II, 1902, 16; Simoni D42; Deschamps 839 (printed in Mainz?); NUC: one copy; NCC: 3 copies.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Belgicana  Humanism  Jesuits 

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