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Among specific topics are a glimpse of a classicizing Friar in John of Wales' Breviloquium de virtutibus, the Medieval unease with the stoic idea of virtue as an end in itself, humanism and religion in the works of Spinoza, Copernicus' Praefatio in libros revolutionum, and the theology of Melanchthon's Loci communes of 1521.
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Presumably Scaliger is alluding to the proverb "Nihil graculo cum fidibus" (Ignorant people have nothing to do with poetry), which is quoted by Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, praefatio 19.
Dutch proverbs and expressions in Erasmus' Adages, Colloquies, and ... by Wesseling, Ari / Renaissance Quarterly
Jerome, Praefatio Sancti Hieronymi Presbyteri in Evangelio.
Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five ... by VAN LIERE, KATHERINE ELLIOT / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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