The century of ColumbusWalsh, James J. (James Joseph)
History
The century of Columbus
Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Renaissance
"Under each work are recorded the editions, translations, sometimes
made into every language, including Arabic, {217} Chinese, Indian;
also the critiques, and the works published in refutation--a
controversial enterprise which largely built up the Protestant
theological literature of the times, and, in Bellarmine's case
alone, meant the theological Protestant literature for 40 or 50
years afterwards. Oxford founded an anti-Bellarmine chair. The
editions of one of this great man's works are catalogued by
Sommervogel under the distinct heads of 54 languages.
"In the methodical or synoptic table, at the end of the De Backers'
work, not only are the subjects well-nigh innumerable, which have
their catalogues of authors' names attached to them, but such
subjects too are here as might not be expected. Thus "Military Art"
has 32 authors' names under it; Agriculture 11; Navy 12; Music 45;
Medicine 28.
"To conclude then this history of our Educational Order, we have one
synoptical view of it in these twelve or thirteen thousand authors,
all of one family. We have much more. This one work 'attesting,' as
De Backer says in his Preface, 'at one and the same time a
prodigious activity and often an indisputable merit, whereof three
and a half centuries have been the course in time, and the whole
world the place and theatre, is a general record of religion,
letters, science and education in every country, civilized or
barbarous, where the Society of Jesus labored and travelled.'"
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