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A43199	Ductor historicus, or, A short system of universal history and an introduction to the study of that science containing a chronology of the most celebrated persons and actions from the creation to this time, a compendious history of ... transactions ... of the ancient monarchies and governments of the world, an account of the writings of the most noted historians ... together with definitions and explications of terms used in history and chronology, and general instructions for the reading of history / partly translated from the French of M. de Vallemont, but chiefly composed anew by W.J., M.A.	Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735.; Vallemont, abbé de (Pierre Le Lorrain), 1649-1721. Elémens de l'histoire.	1698 (1698)	Wing H1309; ESTC R15760	279,844	444

Barberossa He has written a Chronicle of the Sclavonians which begins with the Conversion of the Saxons and the Neighbouring Nations under the Empire of Charlemagne and ends at the Year 1168. XXXVII Arnold Abbot of Lubec has continu'd this Work and carry'd it into the time of Otho IV. XXXVIII William the Little or of Newbury so call'd from his being of the College of that Town in England He was a regular Canon of the Order of St. Austin and liv'd in the Twelfth Century He compil'd V Books of the History of England which he begins with the Year 1066. When William the Conqueror got this Kingdom and ends with the Year 1197. What he relates down to the Year 1135. being that of his Birth he touches upon but very slightly but from thence forwards he treats of Matters with more care and more lagrely 'T is thought he might Die in the Year 1208. XXXIX Roger Hoveden born at York liv'd towards the Year 1200. it not being punctually known when he dy'd He descended from a noble Family and was Divinity-Professor in Oxford After he had left the Court of Henry II. he compos'd an History of his Country in two Parts beginning with the Year 731. where the Venerable Bede ended and having gone through to the end of the Reign of Richard I. surnam'd Caeur de Lion he began the Reign of King Iohn but finish'd no more than four Years of it XL. Nicetas Choniates a Greek Historian had considerable Employments in the Courts of the Emperors of Constantinople about the Twelfth Century When this City was taken by the French in 1204. he retir'd with a Daughter which he afterwards Marry'd at Nice a City of Bithynia and where he spent the remainder of his Days He compil'd an History or Annals from the Death of Alexis Comnenes which hapned in 1118. to that of Baudowin who dy'd in 1205. This History is divided into XXI Books and contains the most remarkable Transactions both in Greece and Asia XLI Conrade of Lichtkenaw otherwise known by the Name of the Abbot of Vsperg in the Diocess of Ausbourg liv'd in the Thirteenth Century He has compos'd a Chronicle which begins with Bel King of the Assyrians and reaches down to the Year of Christ 1229. which was the ninth Year of the Reign of Frederic II. This Work is nothing but a Collection out of divers Authors which he has rang'd at Pleasure and according to the Custom of those Times He was very Learned says Father Labbe in an Age where there was little or none to be found He dy'd in the Year 1240. after having been Abbot Twenty four Years XLII Iames of Vitry near Paris was a Person of singular Merit 'T is said he was Curat of Argentenit in the Thirteenth Century and after having follow'd the Crusade into the East where he was made Bishop of Acon that he was rais'd to the Cardinalship in the Year 1230. by Pope Gregory IX who also bestow'd on him the Bishoprick of Frescati He has given the Publick III Books of the History of the East and West whereof the First begins with the time when the Impostor Mahomet publish'd his ridiculous Religion and ends with the Year 1220. The Second treats of the Affairs of the East And the Third extends to the taking of Damieta There are other Writings of this great Man but which having no relation to Ecclesiastical History I have omitted 'em here XLIII Mathew Paris a Monk of the Order of St. Bennet and of the Congregation of Cluny at the Monastery of St. Albans in England was a Person very Learn'd and of extraordinary Piety He has written an History of England from the Year 1066 to 1250. which he afterwards continu'd to 1259. which was the Year of his Death The other Addition to the Year 1273. which was after the Death of Henry III. is suppos'd to have been made by one William Rishanger XLIV Vincent of Beauvais a Fryar of the Order of St. Dominic was Native of Burgundy and liv'd a considerable time at Beavais but was never Bishop thereof as some have falsely conjectur'd St. Lewis King of France honour'd him with a particular Esteem and assisted him moreover in the composing of his great Work which he divided into IV Parts Whereof the First is Speculum Doctrinale where he treats of all the Sciences from Grammar to Divinity The Second Speculum Historiale which comprehends all the remarkable Transactions from the beginning of the World to the Year 1254. An Anonymus Author has continu'd this History down to the Year 1494. The Third is Speculum Naturale being all Physicks and containing the State of Nature And the Fourth Speculum Morale wherein the Author treats of all kinds of Virtues and Vices XLV Nicephorus Calistus a Greek Historian who liv'd in the Fourteenth Century and under the several Reigns of Andronicus Paleologus the Elder Michael and Andronicus the Younger We have an Ecclesiastical History of his divided into XVIII Books wherein he relates all remarkable Matters from the Birth of Christ to the Death of the Emperor Phocas in the Year 610. This History was design'd to contain XXIII Books but we have now no more remaining of it than the Argument of Five which begins with the Empire of Heraclius and ends with that of Leo the Philosopher who dy'd in 911. This Work abounds with Fables and ought to be perus'd very cautiously Father Labbe says That among'st the Rags with which this Work is every where Patch'd you shall now and then meet with a peice of very good Stuff And Casaubon says That he sets no greater value upon the Leaves of this History than he would upon a Fig-leaf XLVI Nicephorus Gregoracius a Greek Historian who liv'd in the Fourteenth Century in the time of the Emperor Andronicus Paleologus the Elder and probably dy'd in the Reign of Iohn Cantacuzenes Emperor of Constantinople about the Year 1345. when that City was taken by the French He has compil'd XI Books of History which begin at the Year 1204. and end with the Year 1341. when Andronicus the Younger dy'd of whom it is pretended that he did not speak very Faithfully An Historian that is a Courtier is always byass'd to that Prince from whom he has receiv'd Favours This was the Case of Nicephorus Gregoracius He had liv'd a great while at the Court of Andronicus the Elder and observ'd how ill Andronicus III. treated that Prince his Grandfather insomuch that he forc'd him to resign his Throne to him and to become Monk This Nicephorus could by no means approve of and therefore when he comes to speak of this unnatural Grandson his Disgust sufficiently appears Vossius says That this Historian is neither to be Believ'd when he treats of Andronicus nor when he writes of Iohn Cantacuzenes Neque de Andronico solum sed de Cantacuzeno Mentitur Voss. de Hist. Grae. Lib. 2. Cap. 29. XLVII Iohn Villanius has written a History in Italian divided into XII Books which

persuade our selves once for all that we cannot have the Antiquity of the World but within a few Years more or less and ought to look upon all the Projects of restoring the Antiquity of Times to a nice Exactness and Precision as foolish and chimerical III. The different Names which the Assyrians Egyptians Persians and Grecians have given to the same Prince have not a 〈◊〉 contributed to confound the ancient Chronology Three or four Princes have born the Name of Assuerus says the Bishop of Meaux in his Discourse upon History altho' they had others besides If a Man was not told that Nabucodonosor Nabucodrosor and Nabocolasser are but the same Name or the Name of the same Man he could hardly believe it Sargon is the same with Sennacherib Ozias with Azarias and Zedechias with Mathanias Joachos was also c●lled Sellum Asaraddon which is indifferently pronounced Esar haddon or Asor-haddan is called Asenaphar by the Cutheans and through an unaccountable Diversity Sardanapulus is called Tonos Comoleros by the Greeks Those different Names of the same Person differently pronounced by several Nations according to the various Idioms of their Speech must needs cause a great Confusion and Disorder in Things and Persons This Confusion is so great in the Succession of the Kings of Assyria that it is impossible for a Man ever to be truly satisfied about it IV. We have few Memorials left of the first Monarchies of the World an infinite number of Books being quite lost If Herodotus wrote the History of the Assyrians according to his Promise it never was transmitted to us The Greeks have writ very late and those that have did not understand the Hebrew Language and were often miserably ignorant of the Antiquities of Iudea We may say the same of the Latin Historians who being little skill'd in the Greek Tongue and much less perhaps in the Affairs of the Iews and Grecians have undoubtedly writ a great many Things at a venture and very ill digested The generality of them have studied to please by the Politeness and Delicacy of their Writings and curious and strange Stories and have neglected the Times of the Events they speak of which has cast a great Mist upon History V. The Aera's and Years being different almost in every Nation has occasion'd a great Disorder and Confusion in Chronology The Grecians computed the Time from the Olympiads and the Romans from ' the Foundation of their City More than that some Nations had no Epocha at all and have bethought themselves but late of using them and among the rest 't was only about the Year 532. that the Christians began to reckon their Years from the Birth of JESUS CHRIST The same difference is observable in Years as in Aera's In some Countries they made use of the Lunar Year of 354 Days and in others of the Solar of 365 Days and about six hours Altho' we suppose the Historians to have regarded this difference of Years yet they could not avoid to make some Mistakes in Chronology for besides that People were then ignorant of the true Motion of the Sun and Moon with which we are not perhaps throughly acquainted now adays let Posterity be the Judge 't is certain that among the Republicks of Greece tho' never so well governed and regulated they did not agree about the beginning of the Lunar Year One begun it precisely at the Conjunction of the Sun and Moon Another two Days after that is when the New Moon began to be seen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And others began their Year at the Full Moon The several Nations of the World have been no less divided about the Season where the Year should began The Hebrews Chaldeans Egyptians and Persians begin it with the Autumn or Fall of the Leaf the Grecians towards the Summer Solstice and the Romans about the Winter's The Mahometans just at the Equinox in the Spring the Indian Gentiles the First Day of March and the Arabians at the time of the Sun 's entering the Sign of Leo. All these Things have thrown Chronology into so great an Obscurity that it is not in the Power of the greatest Skill in the World to pierce through all the dark Mists which that variety of Aera's and Years has cast over the Face of History Therefore Varro most wisely calls uncertain obscure and fabulous the generality of those Events related by Historians to have happen'd before the Olympiads Dionysius Halicarnasseus says positively Lib. 1. That there is nothing certain in all that the History mentions concerning the Transactions before the War of Troy Macrobius assures us That we must not expect any Certainty in Roman Histories when they relate any thing that happen'd 260 Years before the Foundation of Rome and that concerning those Times Writers are rather Tellers of Fables than Historians S. Iustin the Martyr in Paraenetico maintains That there is nothing constantly true in Greek Histories before the Olympiads and that we have no Account left either by the Grecians or Barbarians to inform us of what happen'd in those remote Ages I have dwelt so long upon this Subject in order to shew that in point of ancient Chronology we must depend upon the Accounts we find in the Holy Scripture since we can expect nothing concerning the first Times from Prophane Historians And here we must take notice of the Wisdom of Providence which has so well ordered Things that we have Light enough to make a firm Concatenation of the Succession of Times for where Prophane History fails us in the first three thousand Years of the World we have the Chronology of the Bible to guide us And when afterwards we find the Accounts of Time more obscure in the Holy Scriptures we meet in Requital with more Light in the Writings of Prophane Authors And there begins the Time which Varro calls Historical because since the Olympiads the Truth of Things begins to be conspicuous in History So that before that Time we must enlighten Prophane History by the help of the Sacred and not pretend to correct the Chronology of the Hebrew Bible and our Vulgar by the Antiquities of the Chaldeans Egyptians and Chinese which is a plain and visible overturning of the Order of Things and no better than to give a blind Guide to one that sees well By all I have said I do not mean to confute the Book of The Antiquity of Times restored my only Design is to caution young People for whom particularly I write against a certain Spirit of Curiosity which has been predominant among us for some Years past and whose stirring Character is too apt to remove those Bounds which we ought to preserve with great Veneration As for the rest I both honour and esteem the Merit of the Author and I am very far from having any Thoughts to offend him §. 2. Eclipses and Aspects of the Planets FRom what I have said about the uncertainty of Chronology some perhaps will be apt to think That the Doctrin

Relation there are many surprizing Stories of wonderful Austerities and Examples which would be dangerous to imitate Several learned Men are of Opinion that this Palladius was likewise Author of the Life of St. Chrysostome X. Paul Orosius a Spanish Priest of the City of Tarragon and Disciple of St. Austin flourish'd under the Emperors Arcadius and Honorius The City of Rome having been taken in the Year 410. by Alaric King of the Goths the Pagans had a mind to render the Christians Odious by accusing them of being the cause thereof as likewise of all the other Calamities which befel the Roman Empire It was upon occasion of this Reproach that Paul Orosius at the Request of St. Austin undertook their Defence by shewing that all Ages have produc'd the like Misfortunes and that the Empire of Rome has never been more free from 'em than since the Birth of Christ. This Work says Du Pin is a kind of Vniversal History divided into VII Books which is not ill writ and yet not over-exact for there are many gross Faults to be met with both in the History and Chronology XI Theodoret Bishop of Cyrus a City of Syria was born in Antioch The Greek Church never had a Prelate more Learn'd and of a better Judgment He was elected into this See about the Year 423. And in 431. he assisted at the Council of Ephesus He wonderfully refuted the Heresies of his time both with Tongue and Pen. Those Works we have of his sufficiently convince us of his deep Learning and great Parts He wrote V Books of Ecclesiastical History which begun with the Heresy of Arius and proceeded on to the time of Theodosius the Younger which likewise Gennadius says he continu'd to the reign of Leo in V other Books but which however are now lost Vtinam quis tantum Thesaurum eruat e Tenebris sicubi adhue delitescunt says Father Labbe the Jesuit Among the other Works of Theodoret there is his Monastical History containing the Lives of the most famous Anchorets of his Time This Book is entituled Philotheus that is as Nicephorus explains it The History of the Beloved of God Herein are related great and wonderful Examples of Virtue XII Socrates say the Schools learnt Grammar at Constantinople under the care of Ammonius and Helladius both Natives of Alexandria He has written an Ecclesiastical History in VII Books which either begins or ends that of Eusebius that is from Constantin and continues to the 17th Consulship of Theodosius the Younger which begins with Festus in the Year 439. so that this History of Socrates comprehends the space of 140. Years Photius says it is very Uncorrect as to its Stile and less Authentick in expounding the Doctrin of the Church He gives us a great deal of reason to believe that he was byass'd to the Errors of the Novatians in that he extreamly commends the Bishops of that Persuasion and blames the Catholicks with a great deal of Vehemence XIII Sozomen Native of Salamis in the Island of Cyprus frequented the Bar for some time at Constantinople He has written IX Books of Ecclesiastical History from the third Consulship of Crispus and Constantin Junior both Sons of Constantin the Great and both Emperors to the seventeenth Consulship of Theodosius Junior that is to say from the Year 324. to the Year 429. We have lost a Continuation of this History for near 20 Years It is somewhat strange that Theodoret Socrates and Sozomenes should all Three undertake the same Work at the same time The reason I suppose must be that they did not like each others Works For it is certain says Nicephorus Writing upon this Subject that the Readers and Writers are often of different Opinions Also these Historians might well be presum'd to favour the Party they Adher'd to XIV Victor of Vtica a Bishop of Africa in the fifth Century of the Church has written an Account of the African Persecution by the Vandals in III Books the beginning whereof shews that it was compos'd in the Year 487. under the Reign of the Emperor Zeno about 60 Years after the Vandals had pass'd from Spain to Africk over the Streights of Gibraltar You shall there meet with a List of the African Bishops which were then involv'd in that Persecution among which Victor himself was not spar'd by the Tyrant Huneric XV. Cassiodorus was Chancellor and chief Minister to Theodoric the Goth and several other Kings of Italy From the Age of 20 Years he was rais'd to all the great Employments in the State all which he acquitted with that Address that he might well serve for a Model to the most refin'd Politicians that succeeded him Under the Reign of Vitigius perceiving the Power of the Goths begin to decrease in Italy he retir'd from the World to his Monastery of Viviers which he had caus'd to be Built on the Extremities of Calabria Amidst his most Burthensom Employments he did not omit Writing several excellent Books of which we shall only mention those that relate to History His Chronicle dedicated to King Theodoric was compos'd while he was a Minister of State says Father St. Marthe in his Life of Cassiodorus It is very much Abridg'd containing only the Names of the Consuls and their principal Actions Vossius after Ioseph Scaliger calls this Chronicle Farrago Cassiodori Chronicon tantum farrago est Which Injury against so great a Man the learned Benedictin that was Author of his Life could not endure They find Fault with him says He for not being exact in Chronology in a work which was purely Chronological It is therefore that they fall upon this great Person with so much Gall and Fury They particularly accuse him of being deceiv'd in counting the Consuls from the Emperor Tiberius to Dioclesian but they might be answer'd that he was not deceiv'd only by depending on the Authority of Eusebius he reckon'd the Consulship of Junius Brutus an Olympiad sooner than he ought That the multitude of Consuls amounting to 25. made in one Day caus'd a great Confusion among Historians and that in a Word the Faults of Cassiodorus are for the most part to be imputed to his Copyers c. He has also written a History consisting of three Parts and drawn out of three Authors viz. Socrates Sozomenes and Theodoret all which he has reduc'd into XII Books All these three Historians he got his Friend Epiphanius the School-Divine to Translate and out of them he afterwards compos'd a Body of History selecting out of each what he found most Excellent and Proper for his Purpose He likewise writ a History of the Goths in XII Books of which we have reason to regret the Loss and whereof we have now remaining only what Iournandez Bishop of Ravenna has preserv'd and which is to be found among the Works of Cassiodorus King Athalaric own'd that this Work was of a profound Reach that its Author had therein rescu'd from Oblivion several ancient Gothish Monarchs which were quite forgot

and keep up his great Credit in Rome under the Reigns of Commodus Caracalla Macrinus and Heliogabalus who took a particular delight in putting to Death the best of Men. However if what he related in his 72d Book about his Familiar be false yet we must acknowledge the admirable Prudence and wise Conduct of that great Man in the most difficult Times for Merit and Virtue There 's one thing very unaccountable in Dion Cassius's History which is his Satyrical Invectives against Cicero Brutus and Seneca whom he charges with the most enormous Crimes I shall not mention any of them because they rather deserve to be blotted out of his Writings than any stress to be laid upon them And 't is upon that score that Vossius charges this Historian with Malice or want of Judgment Omnino haec aut insignem judicij defectum aut malam mentem arguunt At last Dion Cassius through the inspiration of his Genius left Rome and returned to his Birth-place to avoid the ambush that the Pretorian Soldiers had laid for him He retired to Nice says Mr. de la Mothe le Vayer towards the latter end of his Life to pass there in quiet the remaining part of it in which he did like those Animals which are said always to come and die in their Form Father Rapin gives us this Judgment upon him Thus the long Discourse which Dion makes in the 56th Book of his History in Commendation of Marriage and Celibacy is not very much to the purpose The Speeches of Agrippa and Moecenas to Augustus the first of which advises him to quit the Empire and the others to keep it are both admirable in Dion Cassius but they are so long that they make up the whole 52d Book Dion Cassius has lost his Credit with most Men by the extraordinary Things he relates without Judgment For instead of following the Truth he runs into improbabilities as when in the 66th Book of his History he tells you That Vespasian restored a Blind Man to his Sight by Spitting on his Eyes XII Herodian was originally a Grammarian of Alexandria as well as his Father Apollonius sirnamed Discolos or difficult He spent the best part of his Life at Rome in the Court of the Emperors where he had an opportunity to inform himself with the curious Nicety observable in his Books of a thousand fine things not to be met with any where else His History is divided into VIII Books and contains a Series of Seventy Years that is the Government of all the Emperors that have succeeded one another from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Philosopher to the Young Gordianus Son to the first Dion Cassius and Herodian are the first that have acquainted us with the Pagan Ceremonies which the Romans us'd in the Funeral Honours paid to the Ashes of the Emperors and all that was practis'd at their Consecration and Apotheosis that is as their being rank'd amongst the Gods Dion Cassius gives us a very curious Description of the Funeral Pomp of the Emperor Augustus which is one of the finest Pieces in all his Works and he does not forget to tell us with what dexterity they made the Eagle fly from the top of the Funeral Pile from whence that Iupiter's Bird seem'd to carry up to Heaven the Emperor's Soul Herodian in imitation of Dion Cassius describes very finely the Funeral Rites perform'd to the Ashes of the Emperor Severus which his Sons had brought from England to Rome in a Vessel of Alabaster He acquaints us how they were received with Adoration by the Senate and all the People and carried in an Urn by the Consuls to the Temple where the Sacred Monuments of the Emperors were deposited c. These things deserve to be seen in the Original to which therefore we refer the Reader Photius speaking of the Merit of Herodian's History does not stick to say that if we attend to all the Parts requisite in an Historian there are few Authors that ought to be preferr'd before him XIV Zozimus who flourish'd under the Reign of the Young Theodosius has compos'd a History divided into VI Books The 1st gives a summary Account of the Lives of the Emperors from Augustus to Dioclesian but we want something of it Photius pretends that Zozimus made bold with the History of the Cesar's written by Eunapius how far this Charge is true we cannot well determine because we want Eunapius's Work Vossius relates that there was a Report in his Time that the Manuscript of Eunapius's History was in the Library of Venice However the Five other Books of Zozimus are much larger and more exact particularly when he comes to the Times of Theodosius the Great and his two Sons Arcadius and Honorius because he then speaks of what he has seen himself He descends as far as the second Siege which Alaric laid to Rome and speaks of the occasion of his falling out with Honorius Photius says That Zozimus snarls and barks like a Dog at Christians and it cannot be denied but that this Pagan Author had an implacable hatred against the professors of Christianity which has made him guilty of Injustice upon some occasions For altho ' Constantine and the other Christian Emperors were not altogether free from great Crimes and upon that score ought not to be spared by an Historian especially that does not forget their Virtues yet it is certain that the hatred he had for Religion has given him a singular Complacency in inveighing against the Vices of Constantine and other Christian Emperors 'T is also out of the same Spirit that he charges the Christian Religion with all the Miseries that befell the Romans and ascribes the decline of their Empire to the Contempt they had for the old Religion and the Worship of those Gods under whose protection Rome had flourished for 1200 Years Leunclavius a Learned German Apologizes for Zozimus and says That it is no wonder for a Pagan to speak ill of the Christian Religion However there is an excess of Heat and Animosity in his Writings which transgresses the Laws of History and therefore can never be justified XV. Procopius was of Caesaria in Palestine from whence he came to Constantinople in the time of the Emperor Anastasius He was both a Rhetorician and Lawyer and came afterwards to be Secretary to Belisarius whose Actions he has celebrated His History contains VIII Books the two first which treat of the Persian War have been Abridged by Photius in his Bibliotheca The two following speak of the War of the Vandals and the four last describe the Wars of the Goths Besides these VIII Books there 's still a Ninth which has made a great deal of Noise in the World it is Entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Inedita Things not Published This is a most bitter and abusive Satyr against the Emperor Iustinian and the Empress Theodora and these August Persons are no less defamed in these Anecdotes than they are commended in Procopius's

begins with the time of Nembroth and ends with the Year of Christ 1348. This Author was a Florentine XLVIII Flavius Blondus a Native of Forli in Romania was Secretary to Eugenius IV. and divers other Popes He compos'd several Historical Works whereof there are X Books Romae Triumphantis III Romae Restauratae VIII Italiae Illustratae III Decads of the Roman History and a Treatise of the Origin and Actions of the Venetians This Author was a Philosopher who regarded Worldly-acquisitions but little insomuch that Fortune which seldom takes care of those sort of People suffer'd him so far to support his Character as to die Poor the Fourth of Iune in the Year of Christ 1463. Romae Pauper at Philosophum decuit Obiit says Father Labbe XLIX St. Antoninus Arch-bishop of Florence and a Fryer of the Order of St. Dominic liv'd in the Fifteenth Century with all the Reputation and Respect that his great Piety and Learning could procure him Amongst the rest of his Works there is one call'd Summa Historica an Historical Abridgment which consists of three Parts The First is from the beginning of the World to the Reign of Constantin The Second contains all remarkable Passages from Constantin to the Year 1198. being the time of the Pontificat of Innocent III. And the Third begins from thence and ends with the Year 1459. which was the time when he dy'd under the Pontificat of Pius II. and the Empire of Frederic III. L. Aeneas Sylvius who was Pope by the Name of Pius II. He was Born at Corsignano a Village of the Territory of Siena the 18th of October in 1405. After having been employ'd in several important Negotiations wherein he sufficiently demonstrated his great Abilities he was first made Bishop of Siena and then Cardinal by Calistus III. in the Year 1456. and afterwards that Pope being dead he succeeded him under the Name of Pius II. He has compos'd several Works all which denote his great Learning and Judgment but we shall only take notice of those that relate to History He has compil'd the History of the Council of Basile in II Books He also Abridg'd the History of Flavius Blondas There is also a Cosmography of his or the History of the whole World There is likewise his Europaean History which contains several remarkable Transactions in his time 'T is also believ'd that he wrote his own Life tho' it goes under the Name of Iohn Gobelin his Secretary He dy'd the 14th of August in the Year 1464. when about 58 Years Old LI. Laonicus Chalcocondylas an Athenian who liv'd in the Fifteenth Century He has written in Greek an History of the Turks in X Books which he begins with Othoman Son of Orthogulus who liv'd in the Year 1300. and carries it on to the Year 1463. When Mahomet II. was in War with the Venetians and Mathias King of Hungary It has moreover an Appendix which reaches down to 1565. LII B. Platina Native of Cremona according to Father Labbe and of Verona if we may believe Moreri was born in the Fifteenth Century His Name was not Baptist as some have thought but Bartholomew His quick Parts occasion'd him to be universally Esteem'd especially at Rome whither he went under the Pontificat of Pope Calistus II. and was very Munificently receiv'd by Cardinal Bessarion But Pope Paul II. became very much his Enemy and kept him four Months in Prison after which his Successor Sixtus IV. who knew him better bestow'd on him the Care of his Library in the Vatican He wrote the Lives of the Popes down to Paul II. which Work Onuphrius Panvinius a Fryar of the Order of St. Austin at Verona who liv'd in the Sixteenth Century continu'd to his time which was about the Year 1568. when he dy'd at Salermo Platina dy'd at Rome of the Plague in the Year 1481. LIII Anthony Bonfinius a Native of Ascoli liv'd towards the Year 1495. He was a very honest and laborious Man and had learnt almost all Languages It was at the request of Mathias Corvinus King of Hungary and Bohemia that he undertook the History of Hungary which he carry'd on to the Year 1495. It consists of IV Decads and half that is XLV Books LIV. Robertus Gaguinus Head of the Order of the Trinity was very much in favour with Charles VIII and Lewis XII of France where he had the keeping of the Royal Library He has compos'd several Works but the most considerable is his History of France in XII Books which reach down to the Reign of Charles VIII LV. Marcus Antonius Sabellicus Son to a Poor Farrier in Italy was a great Lover of Learning in which he made a considerable progress in a very short time We have a History of his from the beginning of the World to the Year of Christ 1504. And a History of the Affairs of Venice Paulus Iovius says that he dy'd at Venice in the Year 1506. LVI Iames Phillip of Bergamos of the Order of the Hermits of St. Austin was a Person of singular Merit and whom Pope Innocent VIII honour'd with a particular Esteem He compos'd a Chronicle which began at the Creation of the World and ended with the Year 1503. which was the Seventieth Year of the Age of this Author He liv'd afterwards Fifteen Years and dy'd about Eighty five Years Old in the Year 1518. LVII Iohannes Rauclerus a Noble-Man of Germany Son to Iohn Vergehau was Provost of the Church of Subingen and afterwards Professor of the Canon-Law in the University of that City This University was Founded by Count Everard afterwards First Duke of Wirtemberg in his return from Ierusalem in the Year 1477. Nauclerus was made Vice-Chancellor of it He has written a Chronicle from the beginning of the World to the Year 1500. which Nicolas Baselius continu'd down to the Year 1514. and which Surius likewise carry'd on farther to the Year 1574. The time of this Nauclerus his Death is Unknown LVIII Albert Krantz Doctor of Divinity and Dean of the Church of Hambourg liv'd towards the beginning of the Sixteenth Century He was a Man of great Learning join'd with admirable Piety The chiefest of his Works is an Ecclesiastical History entituled Metropolis wherein he treats of the Churches Founded and Restor'd by Charlemagne He has also compil'd an History of the Saxons in XIII Books Another of the Vandals in XIV and a Chronicle of Sweden Denmark and Norway which begins with Charlemagne and is carry'd on to the Year 1504. This Author dy'd the 7th of December 1517. which was the Year that Martin Luther first publish'd his Doctrin LIX Iames Wimphelinge a Priest of the Church of Spire and Professor in the University of Heidelberg liv'd in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century He was both Divine Orator Philosopher Poet and Historian He compos'd these Books viz. Epitome Imperatorum Rerum in Germania Gestarum De Episcopis Argentirensibus c. I could never meet with the time of his Death only