Kenelmus Digbius

Kenelmus Digbius, eques,^[1] Anglice Sir Kenelme Digbie vel Digby (ad Gayhurst comitatus Buckinghamiensis natus die 11 Iulii 1603; mortuus Londinii die 11 Iunii 1665), fuit philosophus rerum naturalium^(en) aulicusque aevo Caroli I et II regum Angliae^(en).

Filius fuit Everardi Digbii, qui, particeps cum Guidone Fawkes Proditionis Bombardicae^(en), anno 1606 ultimo supplicio affectus est. Digbius in matrimonium anno fere 1625 Venetiam Stanley duxit, quae eo liberos liberasque peperit, atque subito anno 1633 mortua est. Ille postea se in Collegium Greshamense retraxit, ubi curiosissima experimenta chemica, alchemica, pharmacologica conduxit.

Opera plura de religione et philosophia naturali divulgari iussit; plura scripta post mortem proderunt, de "pulvere sympathetico" quem primus invenit, de plantarum vegetatione, recentius etiam de vita sua, de amore suo Venetiaeque (quam narrationem nominibus fictis celavit), de expeditione piratica anno 1628 suscepta. Insuper manuscripta praeceptorum culinariorum medicinaliumque a Digbio partim scripta, partim congessa, post eius mortem amanuensis Georgius Hartman divulgavit.

Collectus Digbianus manuscriptorum mediaevalium in Bibliotheca Bodleiana servatur, inter quae textus cantilenae Rolandi carminis epici Anglonormannice scriptus, numero Digbianus 23.

Scripta

1638 : A Conference with a Lady about Choice of a Religion. Lutetiae
1641 : Sir Kenelm Digby's Honour maintained
1643 : Observations upon Religio Medici Textus editionis recentis
1644 : Observations on the 22nd Stanza in the Ninth Canto of the Second Book of Spenser's "Faery Queene”
1644 : Two treatises, in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into, in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules. Lutetiae editio 1645 editio 1669
- 1655 (Ioannes Leyburn^(en), interpr.): Demonstratio immortalitatis animae rationalis, sive Tractatus duo philosophici, in quorum priori natura et operationes corporum, in posteriori vero, naturae animae rationalis ad evincendam illius immortalitatem explicantur. Parisiis: apud Federicum Leonard Textus
1651 : Institutionum Peripateticorum libri quinque cum Appendice Theologica de Origine Mundi. Lutetiae
1651 : Letters between the Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight, concerning Religion. Londinii Textus

1652 : A Discourse concerning Infallibility in Religion, written by Sir Kenelme Digby to the Lord George Digby, eldest sonne of the Earle of Bristol. Lutetiae
1653 (interpres) : A Treatise of Adhering to God, written by Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon
1658 : A Late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France ..... touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy. Londinii editio 1669
1661 : A Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants. Londinii editio 1669
- 1667 : Discours sur la végétation des plantes. Lutetiae: chez la veuve Moet
1668 (George Hartman, ed.) : Choice and Experimented Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities. Londinii: Henry Brome
1669 : The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened. Londinii: Henry Brome
1827 (Nicholas Harris Nicolas, ed.) : Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First, written by himself. Londinii: Saunders and Otley Textus
1828 (Nicholas Harris Nicolas, ed.) : Castrations from the Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby: not published. Textus
1868 (John Bruce, ed.) : Journal of a Voyage into the Mediterranean by Sir Kenelm Digby, A.D. 1628. Londinii: Camden Society Textus
1877 (Henry A. Bright, ed.) : Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers in the possession of Henry A. Bright. Londinii: Roxburghe Club Textus
1955-1958 (V. Gabrieli, ed.) : "A New Digby Letter Book: In Praise of Venetia" in National Library of Wales Journal vol. 9 (1955/6) pp. 113–48, 440–462; vol. 10 (1957/8) pp. 81–105
1958 (V. Gabrieli, ed.) : Loose Fantasies. Romae: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura

Notae

↑ "Kenelmus Digbius, eques" (signatura b 4 apud Google Books); "D[ominus] Kenelmus Digbi eques": vide imaginem.

Bibliographia

Fontes fere coaevi

ante 1696 : John Aubrey, Brief Lives (Andrew Clark, ed., Brief Lives, chiefly of contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey between the years 1669 and 1696 [2 voll. Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1898] 1 2) vol. 1 pp. 224-233 et alibi

Recentiora

Priscilla Bain, Maggie Black, "A Glance at the Life of Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, at his cookbook called The Closet Opened ..." in Harlan Walker, ed., Cooks and Other People: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1995 (Londinii: Prospect Books, 1996) (pp. 27-34 apud Google Books)
E. W. Bligh, Sir Kenelm Digby and his Venetia. Londiinii: Simpson Low, Marston, 1932
B. J. Dobbs, "Studies in the natural philosophy of Sir Kenelm Digby" in Ambix vol. 18 (1971) pp. 1–25; vol. 20 (1973) pp. 143–163; vol. 21 (1974) pp. 1–28
Michael Foster, "Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603–1665)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edd. H. C. G. Matthew, Brian Harrison (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 2004) Situs venalis
Michael Foster, "Sir Kenelm Digby as man of religion and thinker" in Downside Review vol. 106 (1988) pp. 35–58, 101–125
John Farquhar Fulton, Sir Kenelm Digby: Writer, Bibliophile and Protagonist of William Harvey. Novi Eboraci: Oliver, 1937
Sidney Lee, "Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)" in Dictionary of National Biography edd. Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee. 63 voll., 3 voll. suppl. (Londinii, 1885-1901 ~)
Thomas Longueville, The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby. Londinii: Longmans, Green, 1896 Textus
Robert T. Petersson, Sir Kenelm Digby, the Ornament of England, 1603–1665. Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: Harvard University Press, 1956 Exemplar mutuabilis

Nexus externi

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[1] "Kenelmus Digbius, eques" (signatura b 4 apud Google Books); "D[ominus] Kenelmus Digbi eques": vide imaginem.

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