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“The men of letters who have rendered the greatest services to the small number of thinking beings spread over the world, are the isolated writers, the true scholars shut in their studies, who have neither argued on the benches of the universities, nor told half-truths in the academies;” Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary · insight
The translator links Cervantes’ ancestry to Don Quixote’s critique of sham chivalry, notes Cervantes’ birth at Alcalá de Henares and baptism on 9 October 1547, and sketches Spain’s transition from old chivalry to absolutism and Inquisition rule.
and Columbian branches of the family; and another, Juan, whose son Rodrigo married Dona Leonor de Cortinas, and by her had four children, Rodrigo, Andrea, Luisa, and Miguel, our author. The pedigree of Cervantes is not without its bearing on "Don Quixote." A man who could look back upon an ancestry of genuine knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the siege of Granada was likely to have a stro…
The passage highlights Simeon Stylites’ ascent onto an ever-higher column near Antioch, detailing his ascetic posture, endurance through seasons, and how crowds, rulers, and religious legend amplified his influence; it also links monks’ cruelty to the Inquisition.
i. p. 1501, 1502) gives a good account of these cells. When Gerasimus founded his monastery in the wilderness of Jordan, it was accompanied by a Laura of seventy cells.] 67 (return) [ Theodoret, in a large volume, (the Philotheus in Vit. Patrum, l. ix. p. 793-863,) has collected the lives and miracles of thirty Anachorets. Evagrius (l. i. c. 12) more briefly celebrates the monks and hermits of Pale…
A reference identifies Peter of Abano as a physician and philosopher, gives his birth in 1250 and death in 1316, and notes he twice faced the Inquisition.
Mauro (1459), though the result of immense labour in the collection of facts and the endeavour to combine them, really gives a considerably less accurate idea of Asia than that which the Catalan Map had afforded.[14] And when at a still later date the great burst of discovery eastward and westward took effect, the results of all attempts to combine the new knowledge with the old was most unhappy. The first and crude…
Discussing Giulio Cesare Vanini, Leibniz recounts his staged “proof” of God using grass, his prosecution by the Inquisition, and argues that vanity and visible causes explain errors.
*Et levis est cespes qui probet esse Deum.* But since the Attorney General to the Parliament of Toulouse desired to cause annoyance to the First President (so it is said), to whom Vanini was granted considerable access, teaching his children philosophy, if indeed he was not altogether in the service of that magistrate, the inquisition was carried through rigorously. Vanini, seeing that there was no chance of pardon,…
Voltaire attacks medieval schooling run by ecclesiastics, praises isolated scholars who are persecuted, and criticizes institutions of power and the Inquisition for suppressing knowledge.
afterwards; they despised the foolishness of the schools, but did not always dare to rise against them, because there are foolishnesses that are respected provided that they concern respectable things. The men of letters who have rendered the greatest services to the small number of thinking beings spread over the world, are the isolated writers, the true scholars shut in their studies, who have neither argued on th…