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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Valentinus The alchemist Basil Valentine. He is said to have been a Benedictine of the congregation of St Peter’s at Erfurdt, and to have lived in the beginning of the fifteenth century. Bacon comments on him in his Descriptio Globi Intellectualis.

Veneti Patricii Attempted to amalgamate the Platonic and Aristotelian philosophies. His principal work entitled Nova de Universis Philosophia was published in 1591, and holds many connexions with Bacon’s De Fluxu et refluxu maris. Bacon comments on him and his work in his De Aug., Bk. III.

Vergil Polydore (d.1555) Born at Urbino. Italian ecclesiastic. He was sent over to England for the collection of Peter’s Pence, and while in England was preferred to the Archdeaconry of Wells. His History of England in Latin consists of twenty-seven books, and was begun by him in the latter years of Henry VII., and finished in the following reign.