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ft1251 Ibid. I. 685-813.
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ft1252 In the same year (1564) Michelangelo died, and Shakespeare and
Galileo were born. Adding the two years of his first sojourn, from 1536
to 1538, Calvin spent twenty-five years in Geneva.
ft1253 He lived, says a Scotch divine, “somewhat less than fifty-five years,
but into that period the work of centuries was compressed.” Tweedie,
l.c., p. 57.
ft1254 Beza’s Vita, in Opera, XXI. pp. 162 sqq. (in Latin); Henry, III. p.
171 (in French); translation in the next section.
ft1255 See, besides the account of Beza, the entry in the Rég. du Conseil,
April 27, Annal. XXI. 815.
ft1256 See the Discours d’adieu aux membres du Petit Conseil, and the
Discours d’adieu aux ministres, in his Opera, Tom. IX. 887-890, in
Beza’s Vita, and in the appendix to Bonnet’s French Letters, Tom. II.
573. Comp. also Henry, III. 582 sqq.; Stähelin, II. 462-468.
Translation in the next section.
ft1257 Hornung’s picture of Calvin on his death-bed, addressing the
senators.
ft1258 The original entry in the Register of the Council of Geneva under date
“Samedi, Mai 27, 1564,” relative to the death of Calvin, is this: “Ce
iourd’huy environ huit heures du soir le sp. Ian Calvin est alléa Dieu,
sain et entier, graces a Dieu, de sens et entendement.” Under date of
“Lundi, Mai 29,” the succession of Beza to the place of Calvin is thus
announced in the same Register: “De Bèze succède a la place de
Calvin. Il aura la charge quil avoit oultre ce quil a faire les leçons.
Arreste quon luy baille le gage quavoit M. Calvin. Et au reste quand
se viendra ceans quon se contente quil soit assis au banc dabas et
quon luy presente la maison dudit Sr. Calvin sil y veult aller.” Calvin’s
Opera, XXI. 815.
ft1259 What these calumnies were, is not stated; they were first made public
by Bolsec fifteen years later (see Note below). Francis Junius, in his
animadversions upon Bellarmin, says that he was at Geneva when
Calvin closed his life, but that he never saw, heard, knew, thought, or
even dreamed of the blasphemies and curses which the papists said he
uttered at his death.