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several years in England as the years later he was assassinated, a witness the gruesome victories ofguest of the French ambassador victim of Jesuit regicide. In 1600 the Jesuits over the Platonic facpreciselyin this 1583-85 period, the niece of Pope Clement VIII tion in 1600. But there can be nowas very probably acquainted (Aldobrandini) married the most doubt that the Farnese and theirwith Marlowe, and was the im- eligible Farnese heir in Rome, Jesuit confessors, rolled into theplacable enemy of the Jesuits who ending an eight-year period of figure of the Maltese Governor,eventually murdered him. In Aldobrandini ambiguity toward would have struck a deep chord ofFrance the Jesuits were agitating the Jesuits and their Farnese pa- recognition in 1588 when Maragainstthe sovereign Henry III, to trons, lowe's drama was first perwhomBruno had dedicated one It is undoubtedly no accident formed.of his major writings. The Society that in that year also, Bellarmino --Nora Hamermanwas allied with the Guise family delivered the long-awaited sen- New York Citythat backed Mary Queen of Scots' tence against Giordano Brunoclaim to the English throne, who had been a prisoner of the The Editor replies:The main theorist of the Jesuit Roman Inquisition since 1594. We couldn't help noticingthesis of"popular sovereignty" Bruno was declared not merely a that, in addition to the Fernezemobrule and papal infallibility, heretic but an heresiarch, the Farnese pun explicated by Ms.including in temporal affairs, was founder of a heretical sect, and Hamerman, Marlowe's play mayRobert Bellarmino, Bruno and burned at the stake in Rome. This contain a similar pun on the nameGalileo's enemy. In 1600, after a can only mean that he was consid- of Robert Bellarmino, the leadinglong battle, King Henry IV of ered the leader of the faction of Jesuit ideologue of the period. A1-France declared his readiness to the sovereign nation-state, which though almost all the characters inreceive the Jesuits in France despite the feudalist Farnese and their Jes- The Jew of Malta prostitute themtheirdoctrine that the only limi- uit "chivalry" feared most of all. selves in one way or another, Martationon popular sovereignty is Christopher Marlowe was as- lowe reserves the name "Bellathemandate that the people must sassinated in 1593, soon after mira" for the whore whose anticskill a king who is a heretic. Henry Bruno was captured by the Vene- mirror the high-class scheming ofIV accepted a Jesuit confessor; ten tian inquisition. He did not live to Ferneze, Barabas, and the Turks.Had enoughof the pot lobby?.Are you fed up with the "objec- War on Drugs is the magazine oftive" arguments used to justify the National Anti-Drug Coalitheescalating assault of drugs tion--the first national antidrugand related perversions? A new organization committed to endmagazine,War on Drugs, has ing the drug plague--which hascome on the market to defeat this already stopped the decriminaiievilconspiracymethods,with scientific zationstates.of marijuana in fourEnsure that there will bea next generation.Month by month, War on Drugs Subscribe today.names who is involved, who fi- $18.00 for I0 issue subscriptionnances the drug trade, where 35.00 foreign m_l (I0 issues)they get legal and political protection,how they are coordin- Make checks payable to:ated internationally, and why National Anti-Drug Coalitionthey are engaged in their evil 304 W. 58th Street, 5th floorenterprise. New York, N.Y. 10019Subscribe to __ _D)_ _CAMPAIGNER / August 1980 87