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erius Erasmus,” 255–56; Anthony Levi, Renaissance and Reformation: Th e Intellectual
Genesis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 213.
143. Cited in Spitz, Luther and German Humanism, 81.
144. WA 1:146, Cor. 3.
145. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong, 241.
146. Erasmus, Collected Works, 77:662.
147. Ibid., 77:676.
148. Ibid., 77:672.
149. Ibid.
150. Ibid., 77:659.
151. Ibid., 77:743.
152. Marius, Martin Luther, 467.
153. For a thoughtful discussion of this project, see Ross King, Michelangelo and Th e
Pope’s Ceiling (New York: Walker Publishing, 2003).
154. Th is project was begun six years aft er the sack of Rome by the imperial army with
many Lutheran knights leading the charge. On this painting see Charles Burroughs,
“Th e ‘Last Judgment’ of Michelangelo: Pictorial Space, Sacred Topography,
and the Social World,” Artibus et Historiae 16, no. 32 (1995): 55–89.
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1. Th is aphorism appeared at the beginning of what was apparently a sketch for an
essay contained in the Little Notebook, found among Descartes’ papers aft er his
death. Cited in John R. Cole, Th e Olympian Dream and Youthful Rebellion of René
Descartes (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 23.
2. Descartes to Beeckman, March 26, 1619, AT 10:157–58; CSM 3:2–3 (for abbreviations,
see chap. 1, n. 58).
3. Timothy J. Reuss, “Descartes, the Palatinate, and the Th irty Years War: Political
Th eory and Political Practice,” Yale French Studies 80, Baroque Topographies
(1991): 110.
4. Charles Tilly, “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime,” in Bringing
the State Back In, ed. Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Th eda Skocpol
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 169–91.
5. Th e two best books in English on Descartes’ life are Richard Watson, Cogito, Ergo
Sum: Th e Life of René Descartes (Boston: David. R. Godine, 2002), and Stephen
Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).
Watson’s biography is indispensable for coming to terms with the prejudices of
previous Descartes’ scholarship and particularly the early eff orts to transform
Descartes into a defender of Catholic orthodoxy.
6. On Descartes’ family, see John R. Cole, Th e Olympian Dream and Youthful Rebellion
of René Descartes, 89–113.
7. Gaukroger, Descartes, 42. On life at La Flêche see Camille de Rochmonteix, Un
Collège de Jesuites aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles, 4 vols. (Le Mans: Leguicheux,
1839).