Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2Hallam, Henry
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2
Hallam, Henry
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
[58] The proofs of this it would be endless to adduce from the
history: they strike the eye in every page, though it cannot be
expected that he should declare his way of thinking in express
terms. Even in his letters he does not this. They were printed,
with the date, at least, of Verona, in 1673. Sully’s fall he
laments, “having become partial to him on account of his firmness
in religion.” Lett. 53. Of the republic of the United Provinces
he says: La nascenza di quale si come Dio ha favorito con grazie
inestimabili, così pare che la malizia del diavolo oppugni con
tutte le arti. Lett. 23. After giving an account of one Marsilio,
who seems to have been a Protestant, he adds: Credo se non fosse
per ragion di stato, si trovarebbono diversi, che saltarebbono da
questo fosso di Roma nella cima dell riforma; ma chi teme una
cosa, chi un’altra. Dio però par che goda la più minima parte dei
pensieri umani. So ch’ ella mi intende senza passar più oltre.
Lett. 81., Feb., 1612. Sarpi speaks with great contempt of James
I., who was occupied like a pedant about Vorstius and such
matters. Se il re d’Inghilterra non fosse dottore, si potrebbe
sperare qualche bene, e sarebbe un gran principio, perchè Spagna
non si può vincere, se non levato il pretesto della religione, ne
questo si leverà se non introducendo i reformati nell’Italia. E
si il rè sapesse fare, sarebbe facile e in Torino, e quì. Lett.
88. He wrote, however, a remarkable letter to Casaubon, much
about this time, hinting at his wish to find an asylum in
England, and using rather too different language about the king:
In eo, rarum, cumulatæ virtutes principis ac viri. Regum idea
est, ad quam forte ante actis sæculis nemo formatus fuit. Si ego
ejus protectione dignus essem, nihil mihi deesse putarem ad
mortalis vitæ felicitatem. Tu, vir præstantissime, nihil te
dignius efficere potes, quam tanto principi mea studia
commendare. Casaubon, Epist. 811. For _mea_ in another edition is
read _tua_; but the former seems preferable. Casaubon replied,
that the king wished Paul to be a light to his own country; but
if anything should happen, he had written to his ambassador, ut
nulla in re tibi desit.
|Gallican liberties. Richer.|
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