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Sirmond, Jacques <1559-1651> BIBLIOTECA UNIVERSITARIA DI GENOVA – PERCORSI TEMATICI Universalitas & Pervasivitas IL COSTITUIRSI E DIFFONDERSI DELLA S.J. E SUOI ECHI (1540 - 1773) di A. Pisani Schede autori In difesa Jacques Sirmond “Jacques Sirmond - One of the greatest scholars of the seventeenth century, born at Riom in the Department of Puy-de-Dome, France, October, 1559; died in Paris, 7 October 1651. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1576 and was appointed in 1581 professor of classical languages in Paris, where he numbered St. Francis de Sales among his pupils. Called to Rome in 1590, he was for sixteen years private secretary to the Jesuit superior general, Aquaviva, devoting his leisure moments during the same period to the study of the literary and historical treasures of antiquity. He entertained intimate relations with several learned men then present at Rome, among them Bellarmine and particularly Baronius, whom he was helpful in the composition of the “Annales”. In 1608 he returned to Paris, and in 1637 became confessor to King Louis XIII. His first literary production appeared in 1610, and from that date until the end of this life almost every year witnessed the publication of some new work. The results of his literary labours are chiefly represented by editions of Greek and Latin Christian writings. Theodoret of Cyrus, Ennodius, Idatius of Gallicia, Sidonius Apollinaris, Theodulph of Orleans, Paschasius Radbertus, Flodoard, and Hincmar of Rheims are among the writers whose works he edited either completely or in part. Of great importance were his editions of the capitularies of Charles the Bald and successors and the ancient councils of France: “Karoli Calvi et successorum aliquot Franciae regum Capitula” (Paris, 1623); “Concilia antiqua Galliae” (Paris, 1629). His collected works, a complete list of which will be found in de Backer- Sommervogel (VII, 1237-60), were published in Paris in 1696 and again at Venice in 1728. Sources DE BACKER-SOMMERVOGEL, Bibl. De la comp. De Jésus, VII (Brussels, 1896), 1237-61 ; COLOMIÈS, Vie du Père Sirmond (La Rochelle, 1671) ; CHALMERS, Biog. Dict. (London, 1816), s. v.” About this page BIBLIOTECA UNIVERSITARIA DI GENOVA – PERCORSI TEMATICI Universalitas & Pervasivitas IL COSTITUIRSI E DIFFONDERSI DELLA S.J. E SUOI ECHI (1540 - 1773) di A. Pisani Schede autori In difesa APA citation. Weber, N. (1912). Jacques Sirmond. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved January 28, 2013 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14027c.htm MLA citation. Weber, Nicholas. "Jacques Sirmond." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 28 Jan. 2013 http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14027c.htm . Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Scott Anthony Hibbs. Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York. “… La Mothe le Vayer si era impegnato a redigere, per il gran pubblico, un piccolo trattato essoterico sulla virtù, più propriamente dall‟angolo visuale etico-filosofico, che rispondesse all‟ottica e ai piani ideologici del Cardinale di Richelieu, il quale lo aveva sollecitato a prender partito, apertamente, a favore dei gesuiti e, implicitamente, anche della loro nuova metodologia evangelizzatrice in sede missionaria, e a perorarne la causa contro i giansenisti, che li considerava, a tutti gli effetti, come degli autentici nemici dello Stato, e segnatamente del nazionalismo statuale del Richelieu… Quell‟incarico assegnato dal Richelieu al Le Vayer, faceva singolare pendant con una precedente incombenza affidata, sempre dal Cardinale, al gesuita Sirmond, di trattare, in chiave antigiansenistica, il tema della virtù dal punto di vista più strettamente teologico, il che completava organicamente il piano strategico-propagandistico d‟attacco del Richelieu, mirante ad annientare radicalmente il giansenismo partendo dai suoi fondamenti teologici, a sradicare i suoi perniciosi risvolti politici, e infine ad „exécuter philosophiquement le cyranisme‟. Se con quello spirito apologetico delle opere virtuose e del libero arbitrio, il padre Antoine Sirmond s‟era risoluto a scrivere la sua Défense de la Vertu (Paris, Huré, 1641), per parte sua, ne La Vertu des Payens, il La Mothe le Vayer aveva dissertato, soprattutto, del problema della salvezza degli infedeli, alla luce di quel nuovo criterio, si potrebbe dire etno-antropologico, di interpretazione, in sede missionaria, del rapporto Evangelio - popoli pagani che i gesuiti erano venuti coniando e rivelando all‟Europa attraverso le loro lettere e relazioni diviaggio, nel corso della „scoperta‟ delle civiltà orientali, a prevalente colonizzazione portoghese.” Cfr.: S. Zoli, Dall’Europa libertina all’Europa illuminista, Firenze, Nardini, 1997, p. 242-243. .
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