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Alberico Gentili in Defense of Poetry and Acting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2019

J. W. Binns*
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Almost all Elizabethan criticism of any seriousness and weight was written in Latin. Yet no one would imagine this, to look at the literary histories.’ A Latin treatise in defense of poetry and acting by Alberico Gentili, which it is my purpose here to edit and translate, has altogether escaped the notice of historians of criticism and students of Elizabethan literature, even though it was published at Oxford by the University Printer, in the greatest days of Queen Elizabedi's reign.

The main outlines of the life of Alberico Gentili are well enough known. He was born in Italy at San Ginesio in 1552, and studied at the University of Perugia, whence he graduated as a doctor of civil law in 1572. A Protestant, suspected of heresy, he was compelled to flee the Inquisition, along with his father Matteo, and younger brother Scipione.

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References

1 Alastair D. S. Fowler (ed), De Re Poetica by Richard Wills, Luttrell Reprints No. 17 (Oxford, 1958), p. 1.

2 On account of its remarks about acting, the treatise is mentioned briefly by Boas, Frederick Samuel, University Drama in the Tudor Age, (Oxford, 1914), pp. 244245 Google Scholar; and by Chambers, Edmund Kerchever, The Elizabethan Stage, (Oxford, 1951)Google Scholar, IV, 245.

3 See D.N.B., s.v. Gentili, Alberico; van den Molen, Gezina Hermina, Alberico Gentili and the Development of International Law, His Life, Work, and Times (Amsterdam, 1937)Google Scholar; brief accounts of Gentili's life and works are also given in modern editions of two of his works: De lure Belli Libri Tres, trans. John C. Rolfe, introd. by Coleman Phillipson (London and Oxford, 1933), II, I2a-22a; De Legationibus Libri Tres, trans. Gordon J. Laing, introd. by Ernest Nys (New York, 1924), II, na-37a.

4 See D.N.B., s.v. Matthew, Tobie.

5 Gentili refers to the volume as made up from two commentaries ‘confectae in Vesperiis quas nominamus Comidorum’. Clark, Andrew, Register of the University of Oxford, (Oxford, 1887)Google Scholar, Vol. II, Part i, pp. 171 and 183, records similar graduation ceremony debates which deal with acdng: in the Vesperies for 1584 the question ‘vtrum ludi scenici in bene instituta civitate probandi sint?’ was debated; in the Comitia for 1593, ‘An histriones sint infames?’ Records of other topics have, however, perished and are thus not listed by Clark.

6 MS. D'Orville 612, p. 21 ir and v.

7 Gentili did not come to Oxford until 1583. In February 1591/2 the differences began between Dr. John Rainolds, the Puritan, and William Gager, the academic dramatist, on the propriety of academic acting (see E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, rv, 245; and F. S. Boas, University Drama in the Tudor Age, pp. 227-248). Gentili later took up the argument against Rainolds and on 7 July 1593 he wrote to Rainolds enclosing a copy of this present treatise, stating that he had spoken in public about actors before Rainolds had entered into controversy with Gager, i.e., before February 1591 /2: ‘Audi, mi Rainolde: quaestionem de histrionibus publice ego tractavi antea quam tibi haec qusestio cum altero esset.’ Gentili's letter is printed in Rainolds, John, Th'Overthrow of Stagc-Playes, ([Middleburgh], 1599), p. 164 Google Scholar.

8 See below, p. 261.

9 See below, p. 270.

10 See below, p. 263.

11 Book n of Parergorum ad Pandectas, Libro Duo, (Frankfurt, 1588).

1 Presumably a reference to Dr. Matthew's college, Christ Church, Oxford, founded by King Henry VIII.

2 Dr. Matthew had resigned the Deanery of Christ Church early in 1584, having been installed as Dean of Durham in August 1583.

3 The Earl of Leicester and Sir Francis Walsingham were among Gentili's patrons.

4 The first of the two commentaries in the volume, Ad. Tit. C. de Maleficis et Math, et ceter. similibus Commentarius, deals with fortune-telling, sorcery, astrology, witchcraft, and similar practices.

5 A puzzling clause: according to Clark (op. at., Introduction, n. 5, p. 82): Incepting consisted of taking part in certain disputations. These were divided into two parts: (1) disputations ‘in Vesperiis’, and (2) disputations ‘in Comitiis’; the Vesperies took place on a Saturday, the Comitia (known in English as ‘the Act’) on the Monday following the Vesperies. 1[Codex, x, 53, l. 3] In referring to the Corpus Iuris Civilis I use the edition of Paul Krueger and Theodor Mommsen, 3 vols. (Berlin, 1928). I cite in the normal modern way: Book—Roman numerals; title—Arabic numerals; and where necessary, law number— Arabic numerals preceded by the abbreviation l; paragraph number—Arabic numerals preceded by ‘para.’. Gentili usually cites the Corpus Iuris Civilis in the manner customary in the sixteenth century: by the abbreviated title, preceded where necessary by the number of the law and the first words of the paragraph.

2 C. de malef. et ma. [Codex, IX, 18]

3 [Digest, III, 2]

4 1. 8 C. de metat. [Codex, XII, 40, l. 8]

5 lib. Ult. de rep. [Republic, x, 597A-603B] (I refer to the standard Loeb editions of all Greek and Latin classical and patristic authors, except where otherwise stated.)

6 [Plutarch, ‘On the Fame of the Athenians’, Moralia, 346F]. Simonides was, however, from Ceos, not Melos. 7 Laert. [Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, IV, ‘Polemo’, 20]: all further references to Diogenes Laertius are to sections of his Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

8 1. 17 p. erronem. de aed. ed. [Digest, XXI, I, l. 17, para. 14]

9 I have been unable to trace this reference.

10 [Ars Poetica, 9]

11 [Pliny, Natural History, xxxv, xxxvi, 85]

12 [Cicero, De Inventione, II, i]

13 [ Fracastoro, , ‘Naugerius’, Opera Omnia, (Venice, 1555)Google Scholar, sig. RRi r and v, arguing that all subjects are suitable for poetry.] This can most easily be consulted in the section of this edition available in facsimile in ‘Girolamo Fracastoro Naugerius sive de poetica dialogus’, University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, IX (1924), translated by Ruth Kelso, introduction by Murray W. Bundy.

14 [Scaliger, Poetics, 1, ii, p. 5]—all my references to Scaliger are to book, chapter, and page of his Poetices Libri Septem (Lyons, 1561).

15 [ Patrizi, Francesco, Delia Poetica, La Deca Disputata (Ferrara, 1586)Google Scholar, sig. R3r; Delia Poetica, La Deca Istoriale (Ferrara, 1586), sig. S4v]

16 lib. 2 c. ult. [ Zabarella, Giacomo, ‘De natura logicae’, II, xxiv, Opera Logica, (Frankfurt, 1623)Google Scholar, sigs. div-d2r]

l7a 1. 6 de exc. mu. [Codex, x, 48, l. 12, para. 1]

b 1. ult. in fi. de mu. et ho. [Digest, L, 4, l. 18, para. 30]

18 1. 2 p. ult. de vac. mu. [Digest, t, 5, l. 2, para. 8]

19 tit. C. de pro. et me. [Codex, x, 53, l. 3]

20 [Ovid, Tristia, IV, x, 21-22]

21 Suet. c. 22 [Suetonius, Caesar, XLII [sic], 1]

22 Set. [sic] c. 40 [Suetonius, Augustus, XL, 3]

23 Cic. pro Arch. [Cicero, Pro Archia, viii, 18-19]

24 lib. 6 [Diodorus Siculus, v. [sic] 31.5]

25a Laert. in Thai, [i.e., oracles speak in verse—Diogenes Laertius, Thales, 28, 30, and 33]

b Lact. lib. 5 [ Lactantius, , Divine Institutes, v, i. Translated by William Fletcher, Ante- Nicene Christian Library, Vols, XXI and XXII (Edinburgh, 1971), 1 Google Scholar, 291-292]

26 Scip. Gent. lib. 2 pare. [ Gentili, Scipione , Parergorum ad Pandectas, libri II, (Frankfurt, 1588)Google Scholar, sig. Lir]

27 lib. 1 c. 13 [Institutio Oratoria, 1, viii, 10-12]

28 lib. 5 c. 11 [Institutio Oratoria, v, xi, 39]

29 [ Fracastoro, , ‘Naugerius’, Opera Omnia, (Venice, 1555)Google Scholar, sig. Rsiv, r and v; see n. 13]

30 lib. de consol. ad Polyb. ['De Consolatione ad Polybium’, Moral Essays, xi, viii, 2]

31 in poem. Dig. [Second Prefatory Letter to the Digest dated 16 December 533— 'Iustiniani Digesta’, Corpus Iuris Civilis, 1, 12]

32 [Strabo, Geography, 1, passim]

33 [Lexicon, s.v. “Owpos]

34 [Diogenes Laertius, Prologue, 12; Anaxagoras, 11]

35 Ser. 7 and 10 [Philosophumena, XVII, 4-5, and XXVI, 1-9, ed. Hermann Hobein (Leipzig, 1910)]

36 Lucia, in Scip. [Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead, 25 (12), 384-385, and perhaps 20(10), 368]

37 [ Gentili, Alberico, De lure Belli Libri III, (Hanau, 1612)Google Scholar, n, xvii, sig. Z2v]

38 Horat. ep. ad Loll. [Epistles, I, ii, 3-4]

39 Lib. 6 c. 7 [Poetics, VI, vii, p. 337]

40 Martial. Ii. 7 epigr. 80 [Epigrams, vn, 81 [sic]]

41 [Poetics, v, ii, pp. 214-216]

42 A. lib. 5 pare. c. 21 [ Alciato, Andrea, ‘Parergon’, v, xxi, Opera Omnia, (Frankfurt, 1617)Google Scholar, rv, cols. 364-365]

43 G. li. x c. 16 [Aulus Gellius, Nodes Atticae, x, xvi, 1-10]

44 S. lib. 3 c. 49 & 95 [Poetics, III, xlix and xcv, pp. 127 and 143]

45 lib. 1 [I do not find this in Velleius Paterculus, although he does mention that the beginnings of Roman poetry were aspera ac rudia (History of Rome, 1, xvii), and he has a mention of Veliam Palinurique promontorium (History of Rome, II, lxxix, 3)]

46 I am indebted to Professor J. IJsewijn of Louvain for suggesting that the ‘iurisconsultus Lovaniensis’ to whom Gentili refers is Justus Lipsius. Lipsius does indeed in his discussion of Velleius censure Scaliger's judgment of Homer: see Lipsius, Justus, Ad Velleium Paterculum Animadversiones, (Leyden, 1591)Google Scholar, sigs. ajv-a6r.

47 [Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome, II, xxxvi, 3]

48 Martial li. 5 ep. x [Epigrams, v, x, 7-8]

49 [Epistles, n, i, 18-92]

50 Prop. lib. 2 eleg. ult. [Propertius, Elegies, II, xxxiv, 65-66]

51 lib. 3 c. 12 and 20 [Scaliger, Poetics, III, xii and xx, pp. 91 and 104]

52 [ Fulgentius, , ‘Liber de Expositione Virgilianae Continentiae ad Chalcidium Grammaticum’, Opera, ed. Rudolf Helm (Leipzig, 1898)Google Scholar]

53 [I have been unable to identify this allusion, which is presumably to one of the works of Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516), the historian and theologian.]

54 [Suetonius, Gaius Caligula, XXXIV, 2]

55 Lamprid. [Scriptores Historiae Augustae, ‘Severus Alexander’, xxxi, 4]

56 Tacit, de orat. [Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 13]

57 Suet. c. 56 [Augustus, LVI, 2]

58 [Vergil, Eclogues, VI, 66]

59 [I do not find this in Scaliger, but he does object to similar phrases in Ovid's Heroides (Poetics, vi, vii, p . 329) and in Horace (Poetics, VI, vii, p. 339)]

60 li. 4 Aene. in fi. [Aeneid, rv, 696]

61 ad Tass. Soly. lib. 12 [ Gentili, Scipione, Annotationi dei Scipio [sic] Gentili sopra La Gerusalemme Liberata Di Torquato Tasso, (Leyden, 1586)Google Scholar, sigs. Z3v-Z4r]

62 in Sent. tit. de lega. [Paul, Sententiae, in, 6, /. 9—Collectio Librorum Iuris Anteiustiniani, II (Berlin, 1878), ed. Paul Krueger, Theodor Mommsen, and William Studemund]

63 [Annals, xrv, lxii]

64 Macrob. li. 1 Satur. c. ult. [ Macrobius, , Saturnalia, 1, xxiv, 8, ed. Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893)Google Scholar]

65 [e.g., in Discorsi… dell'Arte Poetica (Venice, 1587), p. 14]

66 Ilia. 20 [Iliad, xx, 156-160]

67 1. 30 de usurp. [Digest, XLI, 3, l. 30]

68 lib. 12 [Aeneid, XII, 841]

69 lib. 3 [Aeneid, III, 435-437]

70 lib. 8 [Aeneid, VIII, 60-61]

71 lib. 12 [Aeneid, XII, 178-179]

71a Abi igitur Imperitia aut Lipsius, Livor - Iustus , Ad Velleium Patetculum Animadversiones, (Leyden, 1591)Google Scholar, sig. a6r.

72 li. x parerg. c. 12 [ Alciato, Andrea, ‘Parergon’, Opera Omnia, (Frankfurt, 1617)Google Scholar, IV, col. 461]

73 Dio. lib. 53 [Dio Cassius, Roman History, LIII, 30, 3]

74 Suid. [Suidas, Lexicon, s.v. EBiroAis ]

75 [ Gentili, Alberico, De lure Belli Libri III, (Hanau, 1612)Google Scholar. I have been unable to trace the exact reference.]

76 Ant. Aug. ad Modest. [Antonio Agustín's gloss on Digest, XXVII, 1.6. See annotated ed. of Corpus Iuris Civilis, 6 voals. (Lyons, 1589), sub lege]

77 Laert. in proe. [Diogenes Laertius, Prologue, 12]

78a zaD. Jib. 2 de na. log. [ Zabarella, Giacomo, ‘De natura logicae’, n, xvi and xix, Opera Logica, (Frankfurt, 1623)Google Scholar, sigs.

b Rice, in poe. Arist. c. 19 [ Riccoboni, Antonio, Poetica, Aristoteles Poeticam per Paraphrasin explicans in Poetica Aristotelis ab Antonio Riccoboni Latine conversa, (Patavii, 1587)Google Scholar, ch. xix, sig. L3v]

79 [Probably referring to George Buchanan's Jephthes and Baptistes. I do not know of any Latin play entitled Genesis. The commandment to which Gentili is referring is probably Deuteronomy 5:11: ‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.’

80 [Scaliger, Poetics, VI, iv, p. 308]

81 S. lib. ult. poet. c. 2 [Poetics, VII (part 1), ii, p. 347]

82 Z. lib. 2 de na. lo [ Zabarella, Giacomo, ‘De natura logicae’, II, xix, Opera Logica, (Frankfurt, 1623 Google Scholar), sig. c8v]

83 [Ars Poetica, 333]

84 hb. 1 [De Return Natura, 1, 936-938]

85 [Poetics, 1449b]

86 li. 6 and 13 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, VI, 223b-d, and XIII, 567d-f]

87 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII, 561]

88 Eidyll. 16 [Theocritus, Idylls, XVI, 14-33]

89 [Horace, Ars Poetica, 372-373]

90 [Scaliger, Poetics, vi, v, p. 320. Cf. m, ii, p. 214.]

91 [Horace, Ars Poetica, 368-372]

92 1. 4 de ang. lib. [Digest, xxv, 3, /. 4]

93 lib. II ann. [Annals, XI, vii]

94 [Plato, Greater Hippias, 284A-B]

95 Zonara. [ Zonaras, , Annates, xrv, 6, 31, ed. Theodorus Biittner-Wobst (Bonn, 1897)Google Scholar, in. 157]

96 [Diogenes Laertius, Heraclitus, 1]

97 Laertius [Diogenes Laertius, Zeno, 23, where modern editions read olweas ]

98 [Diogenes Laertius, Solon, 59]

99a Cic. pro Arch. [Cicero, pro Archia, xi, 27]

b Tusc. 1 [Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 1, ii, 3]. This incident is also alluded to by Sir Philip Sidney and several other sixteenth-century writers. See Sir Sidney, Philip, An Apology for Poetry, ed. Geoffrey T. Shepherd (London, 1965), pp. 127 Google Scholar and 2o6n.

100 c. 1. c.2. c.5. dist. 37 [Decretals, Part I, Distinction XXXVII, Canons 1, 2, and 5 (Corpus luris Canonici, ed. Aemilius Ludovicus Richter and Aemilius Friedberg, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1879-1881))]

101 Sext. Vict, de vir. ill. [ Victor, Aurelius, Liber de Viris Illustribus, ‘ M. P. Cato’, 47— Opera, ed. Franz Pichlmayr (Leipzig, 1911)Google Scholar]

102 [probably Scaliger, Poetics, III, xxvii, p. 116, or Poetics, vi, vi, p. 325, although the word febriculosam is not used. Cf. also Poetics, v, xv, p. 279. Scaliger uses this adjective of the works of Doletus, Poetics, vi, iv, p. 305.]

103 In Conu. [Maximus of Tyre, Philosophumena, XXVI, 3, ed. Hermann Hobein (Leipzig, 1910)]

104 lib. 1 poet. c. 2 [Poetics, I, ii, p. 5. Sidney too quotes this statement of Scaliger, An Apology for Poetry, p. 129, op. cit., n. 99.]

105 1. 16 de test. [Digest, XXII, 5, l. 16]

106 [Plato, Symposium, 216C-219E]

107 This sentence and the preceding one derive from: Respiciat ipse [Plato] sese quot ineptas, quot spurcas fabellas inferat:… Certe Symposium et Phaedrum atque aha monstra operae precium fuerit nunquam legisse [Scaliger, Poetics, 1, ii, p. 5].

108 lib. 4. 5. 11. [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, rv, i55f.; v, i87c-d; xi, 504f., 505b-d; 507e]

109 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XI, 5o8a-b]

110 [Republic, x, 599, 6OIA]

111 [Republic, x, 596-598, 602c]

112 [Republic, v, 472D]

113 in prin. rh. [Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1355b]

114 [Gorgias, 461-482]

115 [Fracastoro, ‘Naugerius’, op. cit., n. 13, sig. ssiv v]

116 Titium: a name used in Roman law as that of a typical person—cf. the English equivalent, John Doe.

117 ad. d. I.3. C. de prof, et med. [ Cujas, Jacques, on Codex, x, 52, l. 3, in Commentarii ad tres postremos Libros Codicis Dn. Iusliniani, (Cologne, 1577)Google Scholar, sig. 02v]

118 li. 2parerg. c. 1 [Scipione Gentiii, Parergorum ad Pandectas Libri II, (Frankfurt, 1588), n, i, sigs. K4T-L6V. Cf. also the remarks of Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XI, ii, 5.]

119 Cic. lib. 3 de orat. [Cicero, De Oratore, III, xxiv, 94]

120 Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 35]

121 Suet, de clar. rhet. [De Rhetoribus, 1]

122a Suet. c. 18 [Vespasian, XVIII]

b Xip. in Vesp. [Xiphilinus, ‘Epitome’, in Dio Cassius, Roman History, LXV, 12]

123a Gell. lib. 1 c. 11 [Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XV, II ]

b Athae. li. 13 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII, 61od-f]

124a App. de be.Mi. (Appian, ‘De Bello Mithridatico’, Roman History, XII, v, 28]

b Quinctil. decl. 268 [pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes, CCLXVIII]

c Lact. lib. 3. inst. c. 15 [Lactanrius, Divine Institutes, III, xv— op. cit., n. 25, pp. 171- 174]

d Athaen. lib. 5 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, v, 211-216]

125 Sen. ep. 74 [Seneca, Epistulae Morales, LXXIII [sic], 9-11]

126 [Digest, XXVII, 1, l. 6, para. 7]

127 Athaen. li. 4 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, rv, 160-164]

128 1. 6. C. de mun. pa. [Codex, x, 42, l. 6]

129 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII, 61of.]

130 1. 8. C. de pro. & med. [Codex, x, 53, l. 8]

131 Plin. lib. 29 c. I [Pliny, Natural History, XXIX, v, II , and viii, 28]

132 1. quidem C. de decur. [Codex, x, 32, l. 26]

133 [ Alciato, Andrea, ‘In Tres Posteriores Codicis Libros x, xt, et xn Annotationes’, Opera Omnia, (Frankfurt, 1617)Google Scholar, rv, col. 483]

134 [ Cujas, Jacques, Commentarii ad tres postremos Libros Codicis Dn. Iustiniani, (Cologne, 1577)Google Scholar. sig. 11 r and v]

135 1. 4 histor. [Tacitus, Histories, IV, v]

136 li. 11 de leg. [Plato, Laws, XI, 936B-C]

137 C. de me. val. [Codex, XI, 26]

138 nov. 80 [Novellae, LXXX, Preface and Chap. 1]

139 O. lib. ult. c. 33 [Orosius Adversum Paganos, vn, xxxiii—Migne, Patrologia Latina, XXXI, col. 1145]

140 I. de re. succ. [Iornandes, Romana et Getica, 312, ed. Theodor Mommsen (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores Antiquissimi, v, pt. i (Berlin, 1882)]

141 D. lib. 12 [Paul the Deacon, Historia Miscella—Migne, Patrologia Latina, xcv, cols. 931-932]

142 1. 5. C. de spectac. [Codex, XI, 41, l. 4 [sic]]

143 lib. 2. de civ. c. 14 [St. Augustine, City of Cod, n, xiv]

144 1. 1 1.2 in fi. de his qui no. inf. [Digest, III, 2, l. 1 and l. 2. para. 5]

145 [Digest, III, 2, l. 1]

146 Quinctil. lib. 3. 6. [Quintilian, Institutio Oratorio, III, vi, 18-19]

147 [Andrea Alciato, Commentary on Digest, L, 16, l. 207 [sic], Opera Omnia (Frankfurt, 1617), II, col. 1077]

148 lib. 13 [Deipnosophistae, xm, 57ib-e, 572b]

149 1. 144 de V. S. [Digest, L, 16, l. 144]

150 ad. 1. 3. C. de malef. [ Gentili, Alberico, Ad Tit. C. de Makficis et Math, et ceter. similibus Commentarius, (Oxford, 1593)Google Scholar, sigs. Bir and C2v]

151 ep. ad Abderis [ Hippocrates, , ‘Letter to the Senate and People of the Abderites’, Opera Omnia, (Leipzig, 1827)Google Scholar, III, 779-780, ed. Carolus Gottlob Kiihn (Medicorum Graecorum Opera Quae Extant, XXIII)]

152 Lucia, in Nigr. [Lucian, Nigrinus, 25-26]

153 l. l de ex. cogn. [Digest, L, 13, l. 1, para. 4]

154 [Digest, L, 13, l. 1, para. 5]

155 [Plutarch, ‘Lives of the Ten Orators’, Moralia, 837B]

156 Xenop li. 1 Socr. [Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1, v, 6, and I, vi, 13]

157a Tac. ann j [Tacitus, Annals, 1, xvi]

b Suet. Aug. 43 [Suetonius, Augustus, xim, 3]

c Tyb. 35 [Suetonius, Tiberius, xxxv, 2]

158a l. 46 loca. [Digest, XIX, 2, /. 46]

b l. x de adq. poss. [Digest, XLI, 2, l. 10, para. 2]

159 lib. I de off. [Cicero, De Officiis, 1, xlii]

160 1. 2. de orig. iur. [Digest, 1, 2, /. 2, para. 50]—'a suis auditoribus sustentatus est’.

161 Orat. pro Phorm. [Demosthenes, For Phormio, 44]

162 [Digest, III, 2, l. 2, para. 5]

163 c. 20 [ Faber, Peter, Semestrium Liber Unus, (Lyons, 1590)Google Scholar, sigs. pii r and v]

164 lib. 8 [Aristotle, Politics, VIII, 1340b]

165 Tac. an. 14 [Tacitus, Annals, xrv, xx]

166a 1. 7 in fi. [Digest, XLVII, 10, l. 7, para. 8]

b 1. 9 de iniur. [Digest, XLVH, 10, l. 9, para. 1]

c l. ult. de ritu. nup. [Digest, XXIII, 2, l. 68]

167 Plut in Agesi. [Plutarch, Agesilaus, xxv, 5]

168a LJV lib. 24 [Livy, xxrv, xxiv]

b Cor. Ne. de vi. ill. in prin. [ Nepos, Cornelius, Vitae, Preface—ed. Carl Felix ‘von Halm (Leipzig, 1875)Google Scholar]

169 Liv. lib. 7 [Livy, VII, ii, II-12]

170 Suet. Ner. 39 [Suetonius, Nero, XXXIX, 3]

171 [Faber, Peter, Semestrium Liber Unus, (Lyons, 1590)Google Scholar, Chap. 20, sigs. piiv andpiii r]

172a Val. Ii. 2 c. 2. [ Maximus, Valerius, Memorabilia, II, iv, ed. Joannes Kappius, 3 vols. (London, 1823)Google Scholar]

b Sem. 2 c. 6. [ Faber, Peter, Semestrium Liber Secundus, (Lyons, 1590)Google Scholar, sig. E5v]

173 Athen. Ii. 14 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIV, 62oe]

174 de tranq. vi. [Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi (Moral Essays, IX,) XI, 8]

175 lib. 3 ep. 44 [Martial, Epigrams, III, lxxxvi [sic], 3-4]

176 Arist. lib. 8 politic, [perhaps Politics, VIII, I337b-I338a]

177 Athen. li. 5 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, IV, 155b]

178 Suet. Caes. 39 [Suetonius, Caesar, XXXIX, 2]

179 Ann. 14 [Annals, XIV, xiv]

180 Quinctil. decl. 281 [ pseudo-Quintilian, , Declamations, CCLXXXI, ed. Constantinus Ritter (Stuttgart, 1965)Google Scholar. I do not know where Gentili makes this point elsewhere in his works.]

181 1. 4 1. 157 de reg. [Digest, t, 17, I I. 4 and 157]

182 1. 20 c. de adult. [Codex, IX, 9, l. 20]

183a J 11 de his qui no. in. [Digest, III, 2, l. 11, para. 4]

b ad. 1. si flagitii. de V. O. [Digest, XLV, I, l. 123—de Verborum Obligationibus]

184 lib. 8 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, VIII, 336d.]

185a Suet. Aug. 45 [Suetonius, Augustus, XLV, 4]

b Dom. 7 [Suetonius, Domitian, VIII, 3]

c Tac. arm. 1. 4.13. [Annals, I, liv and lxxvii; Annals, IV, xiv; Annals, XIII, xxiv-xxv]

186 li. 3 de rep. [Plato, Republic, III, 395C-E]

187 Sect. 30 probl. 9 [Aristotle, Problems, xxx, 10]

188 [Plato, Republic, III, 396 C-E]

189 lib. 3 rhet. [Aristotle, Rhetoric, III, 1404a]

190 lib. 2 de iu. be. [ Gentili, Alberico, De lure Belli Libri Tres, (Hanau, 1612)Google Scholar, II, iv, sigs. p8r-Q5r]

191 li. de insom. [Hippocrates, Regimen, IV, lxxxix, 76-78]

192 Athaen. li. 1 [Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 1, 2ia-b]

193 Bod. lib. 6 de rep. [ Bodin, Jean, De Republica libri sex Latine ab Authore redditi, (Lyons, 1591)Google Scholar, sigs. Gg2v-Gg3r]

194a Te r t . je spect. [Tertullian, De Spectaculis, iii-xiii]

b Aug. li. 2 de ci. [St. Augustine, City of God, II, viii, xiii-xiv]

195 Deut. 22 [Deuteronomy 22:5]

196 c. 6 dist. 30 [Decretals, Part 1, Distinction xxx, canon 6, Corpus Iuris Canonici, ed. Richter and Friedburg—op. cit., n. 100]

197 1. 23 de au. et arg. leg. [Digest, XXXIV, 2, l. 23, para. 2]

198 Tac. ann. 3 [Tacitus, Annals, III, liii]

199 [St. Augustine, Soliloquies, n, xvi—ed. Migne, Patrologia Latina, XXXII, cols. 899- 900]

200 Comm. Pii. 2. lib. 6 [Commentaries of Pius II, Bk. 6—the reference can most easily be consulted in the abridged English edition, Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope, trans. Florence A. Gragg, ed. Leona Gabel (London, 1960), pp. 203 and 208]

201 [ Gentili, Alberico, De lure Belli, Libri Tres, (Hanau, 1612)Google Scholar, II, XXI, sig. cc7r and v]

202 S. 1. 2 q 102, a. 6 [Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II, i, quaest. 102, art. 6]

203 Levit. 18 [Leviticus 18:26-27, 29]

204 lib. 1. 8. de leg. [Plato, Laws, 1, 636C-D; VIII, 836A-838C]

205 [JeanBodin, De Republica, op. tit., II. 193, sig. Gg2v]

206 lib. 7 polit. in fi. [Aristotle, Politics, VII, 13363-13373]

207 Suet. c. 31 [Suetonius, Augustus, XXXI, 4]

208 Annal. 14 [Tacitus, Annals, XIV, XX]

209 suet . 44. [Suetonius, Augustus, XLIV, 2-3]

210 1. 8 C. de repud. [Codex, v, 17, l. 8, para. 3]

211a c. 3. di. 23 [Decretals, Part 1, Distinction xxra, Canon 3, Corpus Iuris Canonici, ed. Richter and Friedberg]

b c. 37 de consecr. dist. 5 [Decretals, Part III,'De Consecratione’, Distinction v, Canon 36 [sic], Corpus Iuris Canonici, ed. Richter and Friedberg]

212 Sallustius [Sallust, Catiline, I, 2]

213a Cic.- in ora. [Orator, XLI-XLII, 142-146]

b Quin. 1. 2 c. 15 [Quintilian, Institutio Oratorio, II, xv, 18-19; 31]

214a Lucia, in Anachaer. [Lucian, Anarcharsis, 22]

b Isocr. con. Soph. [Isocrates, Against the Sophists, 1-20]

215 1. 4. C. de excus. mun. [Codex, x, 48, l. 4] i.e., although this law and the one cited in n. 216 stipulate respectively that water-organists and accountants enjoy no immunity, Gentili believes that this does not apply to those who teach members of these professions.

216 1. 4 C. de prof, et med. [Codex, x, 53, l. 4]

217 glosses, Cujas these two laws in Commentarii ad tres postremos libros Codicis Dn. Iustiniani, (Cologne, 1577)Google Scholar, sigs. N2r and 02V.

218 In 1. 6 de excusat. [Digest, XXVII, 1, l. 6]: this title ordains the immunities of various grammarians, logicians, rhetors, philosophers, and doctors.

219 Tac. de ora. [Dialogus de Oratoribus, 10]

220a 1. uit- de iu. imm. [Digest, L, 6, I. 7]

b 1. 1 C. de exc. art. [Codex, x, 66, l. 1]

221a 1. 4 de sicar. [Digest, XIVIII, 8, l. 4, para. 2]

b 1. 18 de instr. [Digest, XXXIIII, 7, l. 18, para. 10]

c Paul sent.de lega [Paul, Sententiae, ra,6,1.62—Collectio Librorum IurisAnteiustiniani, II (Berlin, 1878), ed. Paul Krueger, Theodor Mommsen, and William Studemund]

222 [Digest, L, 13]

223 in Augu. 42 [Suetonius, Augustus, XIII]

224 Cuia ad. d. 1. 6 [Cujas’ gloss on Digest, XXVII, 1,1.6, para. 1, where the gloss on the word circumforanei reads, ‘rectius vetus interpres circuitores transtulit.’ See annotated ed. of Corpus Iuris Civilis, 6 vols. (Lyons, 1589), sub lege

225 1. 8 C. de ve. iur. en. [Codex, I, 17, l. 2, para. 21—where the writing of glosses on the law is forbidden]

225 1. 8 C. de ve. iur. en. [Codex, I, 17, l. 2, para. 21—where the writing of glosses on the law is forbidden]