Jean Barclay

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Jean Barclay (1582, Bridge with Monsoon - 1621, Rome), Scottish writer of the 17th century.

It was wire of the Scot Guillaume Barclay, taken refuge in France since 1573, which after its studies under Cujas, will be named law professor with Pont-à-Mousson. It was born in Lorraine, where his/her father had withdrawn himself to withdraw himself from persecutions whose Catholique S were then the object in its fatherland. After the death of his father (1605), it passed in England, was well accommodated there of Jacques, and there published a work of his father Of potestate papae (1607); it had on this occasion a sharp controversy with Robert Bellarmin, then with the Jésuite Andreas Eudaemon-Joannes, which showed it Hérésie. Following these quarrels, it was withdrawn with Rome where it published new writings with an aim of establishing its Orthodoxie. It died there in 1621.

Publications

It is known for its Argenis , novel Allégorique writes in Latin and interfered prose and D evers where it traces the table of the defects and the revolutions of the courses. This book, estimated by Richelieu, is remarkable by the ornament of style.

Initially published with Paris by Nicolas Buon in 1621, it was frequently reprinted, in particular with Leyde, Elzévir, 1630 and 1664, with a key of the characters.

It was translated into French by the Abbé Louis Jose, 1732 and by Savin, 1776.

One still has of Barclay:

Euphormio , other allegorical Satire, directed especially against the Jesuits, London, 1603, and Leyde, 1637, with keys, translation by Jean-Baptiste Drouet de Maupertuy, Antwerp, 1711;
Icon animorum or Gate of the hearts , London, 1614, translated into French;
History of the conspiracy of the powders , Oxford, 1634;
two books of Latin poetries, 1615.

Albert Dupond gave a Étude on Argénis , 1875.

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