[3] Cp. Trinius, Freydenker-Lexicon, pp. 336–37; Colerus, Vie de Spinoza, as cited, p. lviii. [↑]
[4] See Texte, Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit, Eng. tr. p. 29. [↑]
[6] This is the basis of Pope’s reference to “illustrious Passeran” in his Epilogue to the Satires, 1738, ii, 124. The Rev. J. Bramstone’s satire, The Man of Taste (1733), spells the name “Pasaran,” whence may be inferred the extent of the satirist’s knowledge of his topic. [↑]
[7] Reprinted, in French, at London in 1749, in a more complete and correct edition, published by J. Brindley. [↑]
[8] The copy in the British Museum is dated 1737, and the title-page describes Passerano as “a Piemontæse exile now in Holland, a Christian Freethinker.” It is presumably a re-issue. [↑]
[9] Warburton in a note on Pope (Epilogue, as cited) characteristically alleges that Passerano had been banished from Piedmont “for his impieties, and lived in the utmost misery, yet feared to practise his own precepts; and at last died a penitent.” The source of these allegations may serve as warrant for disbelieving them. Warburton, it will be observed, says nothing of an imprisonment in England. [↑]
[10] London ed. 1749, pp. 24–25. [↑]
[11] Koch, Histor. View of the European Nations, Eng. tr. 3rd ed. p. 103. Cp. Crichton and Wheaton, Scandinavia, 1837, i, 383–96; Otté, Scandinavian History, 1874, pp. 222–24; Villiers, Essay on the Reformation, Eng. tr. 1836, p. 105. But cp. Allen, Histoire de Danemark, Fr. tr. i, 298–300. [↑]
[12] Otté, pp. 232–36; Crichton-Wheaton, i, 398–400; Geijer, Hist. of the Swedes, Eng. tr. i, 125. [↑]