Gabriel Naudé

Gabriel Naudé (born the February 2nd 1600 with Paris and dead the July 10th 1653 with Abbeville) is a Bibliothécaire French.

Although having followed studies of letters, Philosophy and Medicine, Gabriel Naudé follows mainly the occupation of Bibliothécaire.

Library

He works in particular for the Cardinal of Bagni and Francesco Barberini with Rome, then for the cardinal of Mazarin and constitutes a Bibliothèque which is the base of current the Bibliothèque Mazarine. Traversing Europe during 10 years, it helped Mazarin with the constitution of its library, bringing back more than 40.000 volumes with most of invaluable manuscripts. It is famous to have written the Advis to draw up a library , which is the first handbook of Bibliothéconomie French. Magic and esotericism He sees the first edition of his work on the magic, medieval science, and the history of his training and his education published in 1625. Its work of 1690 is the last published of alive sound Naudé died in 1653. It takes the defense of famous men like Merlin, Nostradamus, Roger Bacon, and Paracelsus by denouncing the load to have made magicians of them. He studied the magic, and classified it in 4 categories: white Magic, black Magic, divine Magic, and natural Magic (the latter including Sciences, Astronomy and Chemistry). It publishes also an invaluable work on the revelations of the philosophical and hermetic mysteries of the Brothers of the Rosicrucian brotherhood. -->

Works

Instruction in France on the Truth of the History of the Brothers of the Roze-Cross … Paris: At François Julliot, 1623.
Advis to draw up a library . First edition in 1627, republication in 1644. Contemporary edition at Klincksieck, 1994. - 164 p.; 18 cm. Reproduction of the specimen of the library Holy-Genevieve, Paris. ISBN 2-252-02730-4
Addition with the history of Louis XI . First edition in 1630. Contemporary edition at Beech, 1999. - 196 p.; 23 cm. - (Corpus of works of philosophy in French language) According to the text of the 1st ED. (1630). ISBN 2-213-60179-8
Science of the Princes, or Considerations political on blow-of state . First edition in 1639. Edition contemporaire at the Walker. - ISBN 2-07-077275-6
Quinque quaestionum latro-philologicarum /Gabriel Naudé. - Parisiis: Chouet, 1647. - 12ø.
Causae Kempenses conjectio pro curia Romana /Gabriel Naudé. - Parisiis: Cramoisy, 1651. - 8ø.
Apologie for all the large characters who esté wrongfully suspect of magic. 1625, $the Hague: At Adrian Vlac, 1653.
Bibliographia Militaris. In germania primum published cleaned G. Schubarti. Ienae, ex Officina Nisiana, 1683. First separate Edition of this dedicated work to the books on the war and the Art of warfare.
Remarkable Naudaean and Patiniana or Singularitez, Catches Of the Conversations Of Mess. Naudé & Guy Shoe. Second re-examined Edition, corrected & increased Additions in Naudæana which are not in the Edition of Paris. Amsterdam: François vander Plaats, 1703.
Science of the princes, or Considerations political on the Coups d'etat. With the Historical Reflections, Morals, Christian women, & Policies. L.D.M.C.S.D.S.E.D.M. 3 volumes. 1752. " Historical Reflections… " would be due to Louis of May, Conseiller and Secretary of Sérénissime Electeur of Mainz as could indicate it initial title.
Memory confidential addressed to Mazarin. After the death of the Cardinal of Richelieu. Published according to the manuscript autograph and new by Alfred Franklin.

Quotation

" The library is the place of the public exercise of the raison" (in Advis to draw up a library ).

External bond

Biographical note on the site of the National library of France

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