I. Introd. by Francis Cardinal Ehrle, S.J.
vii: The Jesuits expelled from
viii: The thoroughly Christian atmosphere of his home & native town
ix: promotores Fidei ‑ devil's advocates
1. Italian towns: small ones with big names, big with small. Montepulciano: mountaintop village
3: Poliziano: Angelo Cini (de Monte)policiano
15: Cynthia, his mother, thought of him becoming a doctor: "it would enable him to earn good money"
24: About his intimacies with God we can only guess; guessing is not biography
34: Cristopher Clavius SJ's was the work on the calendar
37: The Jesuit students in Rome were not given many holidays, being a hardier race than their brethren of today
39: Most deep feeling is dumb
53: de Isla's novel The History of the Famous Preacher Fray Gerundio de Campazas (like Euphues)
86: A bell is a summons; but it does not hear itself
101: b'resith: the first word of the Bible
132: non te fugit quid sit libros edere (Casaubon to de Thou)
133: "I would rather feel compunction than know its definition" [Thomas a K.]
136: Pun‑making: vera sancta allegressa. He could not resist puns to his dying day
165: Whitaker: the doctor was a meritorious person, in the grim unlovely way of Puritans
167: Lest men might seek to explain the stability of St. Peter's by the blameless lives of its occupants
182: St. Francis de Sales of his writings, derived from RB: that there was nothing of his own in it, "except the needle & thread"
187: Pius IX personally had no desire to see papal infallibility defined. He was pushed by the council athers, in reply to Mgr. Maret's Gallican treatise (1869)
222:[political] power belongs to the people as a whole [Relectio de potestate civili lib.iii.cap. vi].
222: [whether the people chose a king, an oligarchy, or a democracy does not change the immediate source of the authority] [de membris ecclesiae.l.3 c.vi]
401: cosa fatta, non ammetter consiglio
II
1. Fear of mystery is one of the notes of a false religion
4/5: on efficient grace and efficacious grace
7: on Venerable Leonard Lessius' combative spirit
23: It is well known that solid & genuine holiness may co‑exist with marked faults of temperament. St. Jerome was anything but a model of meekness. St. Theresa carried on half a dozen lawsuits simultaneously
26: Luis de Molina
91: 100 year old stonecutter in Capua who had never heard of the Creed
109: Our weal & our woe
130: The Venetian Senate was undoubtedly a haughty, worldly‑wise, money‑loving oligarchy, adept at giving fair names to nasty realities
144: Possession of Robert Dolemas' A Conference About the Next Succession (1594) was made an act of treason by the parliament
209: Lancelot Andrewes did never refuse a benefice
244: I will continue to love you, but only as an enemy
328: Aristotle almost agreed about the earth revolving around the sun; but how explain the non‑observable small stellar displacements ‑ parallaxes. Bessell in 1838 finally determined the parallax of the stars in Cygni. 329: It was the Arabs who were rigid about Aristotle, not Aquinas.
331: Copernicus was denounced by Luther & Melanchthon. Gregorian reform of the calendar used Copernicus' "Prussian tables"
346: Galileo: that comets were a will o' the wisp. Horazio Grassi that they were as we now describe them. [Grassi has been made a villain]
351: Galileo had no strict proof of the Earth around the sun, nor the earth around its own axis [He did ‑ the pendulum going through 360 degrees ‑ but did not recognize it]
360: RB understood the scientific method better than Galileo [who tended to be an inductionist]; Galileo understood the interpretation of Scripture better than RB
361: G's data as fully explained by Tycho Brahe's system [P. Duhem]
362: [Duhem]: Osiander, Bellarmine, Urban VIII were correct as to scientific method: les hypotheses de la physique ne sont que des artifices mathematiques destines a sauver les phenomenes
370/1: Decree of 5 Mar 1616: Copernicus on Index ... donec corrigantur. G. was pleased with the result
373: Eppur si muove: first in Abbe Irailh's QUERELLES LITTERAIRES (P. 1761)
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