[258] Reuter, Gesch. der religiösen Aufklärung im Mittelalter, i, 167. [↑]
[260] The Moslems were inclined to regard him as of their creed “because educated in Sicily.” Cantù, Gli Eretici d’Italia, 1865, i, 66. [↑]
[261] See Gieseler, as cited below; and Reid’s Mosheim, p. 437, note. [↑]
[262] Milman, Latin Christianity, vi, 150; Lea, Hist. of the Inquisition, i, 221. [↑]
[263] Milman, vi, 150, 158. [↑]
[264] Renan, Averroès, p. 289. [↑]
[265] Renan, Averroès, pp. 205–10. Michael Scotus may have been, like John Scotus, an Irishman, but his refusal to accept the archbishopric of Cashel, on the ground that he did not know the native language, makes this doubtful. The identification of him with a Scottish knight, Sir Michael Scott, still persisted in by some scholars on the strength of Sir Walter Scott’s hasty note to The Lay of the Last Minstrel, is destitute of probability. See the Rev. J. Wood Brown’s Inquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot, 1897, pp. 160–61, 175–76. [↑]
[266] Inferno, xx, 515–17. [↑]
[267] Cantù, Gli Eretici d’Italia, i, 65–66; the Pope’s letter, as cited; Renan, Averroès, pp. 287–91, 296. [↑]