l his death.
[66] Henry Loriti of canton Glarus, usually known as Glareanus
(1488-1563), had an academy at Basle where he took in thirty boarders.
[67] Published at Basle, March 1519.
[68] A translation of Galen's _Methodus medendi_, not printed until June
1519. Lupset supervised the printing.
[69] This may be the _De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis_,
composed in Italy. More writes to Erasmus in 1516 (Allen 502) that he
has received part of the MS. from Lupset, but it was not published until
1529.
[70] Luther's _Theses_, posted 31 October 1517 and printed shortly
afterwards at Wittenberg.
[71] The proposals for a crusade drawn up at Rome, 16 November 1517.
[72] The _Julius Exclusus_, an attack on Pope Julius II, who died 1513.
Erasmus never directly denied his authorship, and More speaks of a copy
in Erasmus's hand (Allen 502).
[73] Beat Bild (1485-1547), whose family came from Rheinau near
Schlettstadt, became M.A., Paris, in 1505. He worked as a corrector at
Henry Stephanus's press in Paris, with Schuerer in Strasbourg, and from
1511 for fifteen years with Amerbach and Froben in Basle, where he
edited and superintended the publication of numerous books.
[74] Haecceity, 'thisness', 'individuality', t.t. of Scotistic
philosophy, cf. quiddity, 'essence'.
[75] I.e. the Literary Society of Strasbourg. A letter survives,
addressed to Erasmus in the name of this Society, dated 1 September
1514, in which occur all the names mentioned here, with the exception of
Gerbel's.
[76] A portrait drawing of Varnbueler by Albrecht Duerer is in the
Albertina, Vienna; Duerer made also a woodcut from it.
[77] Hermann, Count of Neuenahr (1492-1530), a pupil of Caesarius, with
whom he visited Italy in 1508-9. In 1517 he lectured in Cologne on Greek
and Hebrew, and became later Chancellor of the University. Among his
works is a letter in defence of Erasmus.
[78] _Operationes in Psalmos_. Wittenberg, 1519.
[79] James Probst or Proost (Praepositus) of Ypres (1486-1562).
[80] Ulrich Hutten (1488-1523), the German knight and humanist.
[81] Satires 2, vii. 96 (where however the gladiators are the subject,
and not the artists, of a crude charcoal sketch).
[82] Sir Thomas More's portrait at the age of fifty was painted by Hans
Holbein; it is now in the Frick Collection, New York. Two portrait
drawings of him by Holbein are in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
See also p. 236, note 4.
[83] John Mo
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