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Note on a Copy of the Responsiones of Robert Parsons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

Arthur Strong
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Another memorial of Cardinal Allen and of his friends in Rome has lately been brought to my notice by Lord Gerald Wellesley, to whom it belongs, and may fitly be placed in record here in connection with the plaquette of Aristotle. This is a copy of the second edition (Rome, Zannetti, 1593) of the celebrated replies (Responsiones) issued seriatim to each clause of Queen Elizabeth's edict against Catholics in the year 1591: Elizabethae Angliae Reginae Haeresim Calvinianam propugnantis saevissimum in Catholicos sui … Regni edictum … cum responsione ad singula capita … per D. Andream Philopatrum Presbyterum, etc. It is common knowledge that the pseudonym of Philopater conceals the name of the famous English Jesuit, Fr. Robert Parsons, so that the authorship of the book alone takes us back into the circle of the English College at Rome, which Dr. William—afterwards Cardinal—Allen had helped to found in 1575, and of which Parsons had been appointed Rector in 1585. But this particular copy, as the various inscriptions and stamps it bears testify, had sundry bibliographical adventures which it is not without interest to retrace.

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Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters
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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 9 , 1920 , pp. 225 - 228
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1920

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page 225 note 1 Card. Gasquet's Hist. of the Ven. English Coll., chs. iii. and iv.

page 226 note 1 I am much indebted to Sir John Sandys for providing me with notes on Voss from the account of him in vol. 50 of Zedler's, Lexikon (Leipzig and Halle, 1750)Google Scholar which is not accessible to me here. Monsignor Le Grelle of the Vatican Library has most kindly provided me with further biographical notices which make it clear that Voss was a prominent figure in the learned world of the ‘Counter Reformation.’ See inter alia, Valeri Andreae Bibliotheca Belgica, Louvain, 1643, p. 285–6Google Scholar; Joh. Fr. Foppaeus, Bibliotheca Belgica, Bruxelles, 1739, vol. i. p. 382–3Google Scholar; Davis, , Hist, de Looz, vol. ii. p. 20Google Scholar; Davis, , Hist, du Diocèse et de la Principauté de Liège pendant le XVIe Siècle, Liège, 1884, pp. 631–2Google Scholar, etc., etc.

page 226 note 2 See Jos. Schmidlin, Geschichte der deutschen Nationalkirche in Rome … 1906, p. 523, a reference for which I am again indebted to Monsignor Le Grelle. The church of the Anima, originally Flemish, was eventually appropriated by the Germans.

page 226 note 3 I have not succeeded in identifying the writing.

page 227 note 1 The Church, which had been begun some years previously, was opened to the public in 1596. See Premoli, Orazio M. (Barnabite), Storia dei Barnabiti nel Cinquecento, 1913, P. 337 f.Google Scholar, and cf. Armellini, Chiese di Roma, p. 312. It was the seat of the famous Academy of Music of Sta. Cecilia and of the Company of S. Ivo, founded by a number of lawyers to defend the lawsuits of the poor, and of various other confraternities. See Memorie intorno alla Chiesa dei SS. Biagio e Carlo, 1861, p. 39, and pp. 142–153 (quto ed. = p. 10 and pp. 37 ff. of fo. ed.).

page 227 note 2 Founded at Milan about 1533 and surnamed ‘Barnabites,’ from the Church of St. Barnabas, which belonged to them in the sixteenth century.

page 227 note 3 This very ancient church was given to the Barnabites by Gregory XIII. in 1575. Memorie, p. 9 (quto ed. = p. 3 of fo. ed.); Premoli, op. cit. p. 269.

page 227 note 4 S. Carlo, to which the name of S. Biagio was prefixed in memory of the first Roman home of the Barnabites, was begun in 1611. In 1870 the convent was suppressed, and the Barnabites moved to the beautiful house, No. 6 Via Chiavari, which was once Cassiano dal Pozzo's. See Premoli, , ‘Cassiano dal Pozzo’ in L'Arcadia, ii. 1918Google Scholar.

page 228 note 1 I.e., Paulus Apostolus.

page 228 note 2 See Notizie Storiche, Bibliografiche e Statistiche delle Biblioteche Governative del Regno d'Italia, Roma, 1891, p. 47Google Scholar.