[87] Gebhart, pp. 59–63; Burckhardt, p. 211. [↑]
[88] Cp. Burckhardt, p. 291. [↑]
[89] Burckhardt, pp. 279–80; Villari, Life of Machiavelli, pp. 106–107. [↑]
[90] Burckhardt, pt. iii, ch. xi. [↑]
[91] Dr. Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, 1895, i, 265. Cp. Renan, Averroès, Avert. [↑]
[92] Schechter, Studies in Judaism, pp. 213, 420–21. [↑]
[93] Notice of Bonaventure Desperiers, by Bibliophile Jacob [i.e. Lacroix], in 1841 ed. of Cymbalum Mundi, etc. [↑]
[94] For a solution of the enigma of the title see the Clef of Eloi Johanneau in ed. cited, p. 83. Cymbalum mundi was a nickname given in antiquity to (among others) an Alexandrian grammarian called Didymus—the name of doubting Thomas in the gospel. The book is dedicated by Thomas Du Clevier à son ami Pierre Tyrocan, which is found to be, with one letter altered (perhaps by a printer’s error), an anagram for Thomas Incrédule à son ami Pierre Croyant, “Unbelieving Thomas to his friend Believing Peter.” Clef cited, pp. 80–85. [↑]
[95] Origen, Against Celsus, vi, 78. [↑]
[96] The readiness of piety in all ages to invent frightful deaths for unbelievers must be remembered in connection with this and other records. Cp. Notice cited, p. xx, and note. The authority for this is Henri Estienne, Apologie pour Hérodote, liv. i, chs. 18, end, and 26. [↑]