| 词条 | Gregorio Leti |
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LifeThe nephew of the Bishop of Acquapendente in Umbria, Leti was educated in a Jesuit school, but later became a Protestant.[4] He resided in the court of Louis XIV of France and in 1680[5] that of Charles II of England, who commissioned him to write a history of England. Leti had access to the library of the Earl of Anglesey, which numbered over 5,000 volumes, as well as that of Bishop Gilbert Burnet.[5] He wrote the first ever proper life of Elizabeth I of England, which includes many romantic embellishments about her youth and her mother, Anne Boleyn. Nevertheless, he may have used documents he found in the English libraries.[6] Leti was also elected a member of the Royal Society. After the publication of a collection of anecdotes which offended Charles II, Il Teatro Britannico,[8] Leti fled England in 1683 for Amsterdam, where he became the city historiographer in 1685.[7][8] He died in Amsterdam in 1701.[9] Leti's biography of Pope Sixtus V has been translated into many languages, and contains an anecdote similar to the infamous "pound of flesh" from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.[10] The Catholic Encyclopedia calls Leti "mendacious and inexact" and is also critical of works described as derivative of Leti's "anti-papal histories."[11] Mosheim, a Lutheran church historian, called Leti "inaccurate and unfaithful."[12] According to Thomas Trollope, "his inexactitude as an historian is notorious."[13] Even secular writers have characterised his biography of Sixtus V as "resting on very slight authority."[14] Among his critics, Leti is sometimes referred to as the "Varillas of Italy."[15] Leti was the father-in-law of the scholar and theologian Jean Leclerc.[8] Works
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References1. ^Jewett, Charles Coffin. On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries, and their Publication by Means of Separate Stereotyped titles. {{ISBN|1-4021-7529-9}}. p. 78. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Leti, Gregorio}}2. ^{{Cite CE1913|wstitle=Pope Innocent X}} 3. ^1 Ambrosini, Maria Luisa, and Willis, Mary. 1996. The Secret Archives of the Vatican. Barnes & Noble Publishing. {{ISBN|0-7607-0125-3}}. p. 138. 4. ^Israel, Jonathan Irvine. 1991. The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and Its World Impact. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-54406-8}}. p. 32. 5. ^Mayer, Thomas Frederick. 1999. A Reluctant Author: Cardinal Pole and His Manuscripts. {{ISBN|0-87169-894-3}}. p. 107. 6. ^Chamberlin, Frederick: Elizabeth and Leycester, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939, pp. 91, 439–440 7. ^Granger, James. 1824. A Biographical History of England. W. Baynes and Son. p. 45. 8. ^1 Marshall, John. 2006. John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-65114-X}}. p. 177. 9. ^1 Dublin University Magazine. 1852. "Anecdotes of the Stage." in Eclectic Magazine edited by Walter Hilliard Bidwell and John Holmes Agnew. Leavitt, Throw and Co. p. 182. 10. ^Solomon A. 1998. "Shakespeare and the Jews." Renaissance Quarterly. 51, 1. 11. ^{{Cite CE1913|wstitle=Conclave}} 12. ^Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, and Maclainep, Archibald. 1819. An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century. p. 194. 13. ^Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. 1876. The Papal Conclaves, as They Were and as They are. Chapman and Hall. p. 106. 14. ^Clark, William George, and Wright, William Aldis. 1874. Introduction to The Merchant of Venice. Clarendon Press. p. xx. 15. ^1 Thomas, William John. 1860. Notes and Queries. G. Bell. p. 270. 7 : 1630 births|1701 deaths|People from Milan|Italian historians|Historians of the Catholic Church|Italian Protestants|Fellows of the Royal Society |
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