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moines et les missionnaires citent encore.” In recent times Galiffe and
Audin have come up to the defence of Bolsec, but have been refuted by
Henri L. Bordier in La France Protestante, II. 766 sqq., and in L’ecole
historique de Jérôme Bolsec, Paris, 1880. Schweizer (I. 207) calls
those libels “ersonnene Verleumdungen, wie rechtschaffene Katholiken
laengst zugeben, anderen aber gut genug zum Wiederabdrucken.”
ft898 Apologia illustris D. Jacobi a Burgundia Fallesii Bredanique domini,
qua apud Imperatoriam Majestatem inustas sibi criminationes diluit
fideique suae confessionem edit. In Opera, X. Pt. I. 269-294.
ft899 It was published at Amsterdam in a separate volume, 1774, and is
reprinted in the Opera and in the collection of Bonnet. Comp. on
Calvin’s friendship with De Falais, Henry, III. 64-69; Stähelin, II. 293-
302.
ft900 Bolsec, in his life of Calvin, invented, among other slanders, the story
that the real cause of De Falais’ leaving Geneva was an attempt of
Calvin on the chastity of his wife!
ft901 He wrote to Caspar Peucer, his son-in-law, Feb. 1, 1552: “Lelius mihi
scribit, tanta esse Genevae certamina de Stoica necessitate, ut carceri
inclusus sit quidam [Bolsec] a Zenone [Calvino] dissentiens. O rem
miseram! Doctrina salutaris obscuratur peregrinis disputationibus.”
Mel.’s Opera (Corp. Ref.), vol. VII. 932. To his friend Camerarius he
wrote, under the same date, Feb. 1, 1552 (VII. 930): “Hic Polonus a
Lelio accepit literas .... Ac vide seculi furores, certamina Allobrogica
[Genevensia] de Stoica necessitate tanta sunt, ut carceri inclusus sit
quidam, qui a Zenone dissentit. Lelius narrat, se korufai>w| cuidam
[Calvino] scripsisse, ne tam vehementer pugnet. Et mitiores sunt
Tigurini.”
ft902 His French name is Bastien de Chatillon or Chateillon. He assumed,
not without vanity, the classical name Castalio with allusion to the
Castalian fountain at the foot of Parnassus. The usual spelling is
Castellio. His precise origin is uncertain. He was either a Frenchman or
a Savoyard. He was numbered with the liberal anti-calvinistic Italians,
and charged with using a corrupt French dialect. See Bayle, l.c., and
Schweizer, I. 311.
ft903 Stähelin (II. 303) calls him “ein rationalistischer Gefühlstheologe mit
ausgeprägt aesthetischem Anstrich.”