A Finding List: Part 2.

Bacon’s Acquaintances, Friends, Companions, Colleagues

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In this section, it was felt the need to contain all persons referred to in Bacon’s works, speeches, and letters who were his acquaintances, friends, or companions.

They are given a well deserved synoptical, yet understandable biography. This way, all references noted to persons mentioned by Bacon would be well understood to why he referred to them, and under what circumstances they surrounded his lifestyle. In continuation to these synoptical biographies, are the works of these persons either in a detailed account that will be found in the Appendix volume or in a synoptical form after each individual biography.
Where no additional information is added to those works, is due to the lack of historical records, which is believed to be more and more noted to modern researchers on the history of those times and especially when compiling such a volume as this one.

A jesty note from Edmund Burke will end the introduction to this part: “Strip majesty of its externals and it is merely a jest.” [(m)ajest(y).]

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Only Was used as an adjective in Bacon’s time. By her only aspect she turned men into stones. (Bacon, Adv., L. 274).

Osorii Lusitani (d.1580) Osorius, Bishop of Sylves in Algarve. One of his principal works is his De rebus gestis Emanuelis, 1574, in twelve books. It contains an account of the Portuguese discoveries and conquests, which took place in the reign of Emanuel the Great (1495–1521). Bacon comments on him in his De Aug., Bk. I.