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BIOGRAPHY Jacqes Simond was born at Riom , Auvergne . He was educated at the Jesuit College of Billom ; having been a novice at Verdun and then at Pont-Mousson , he entered into the order on the 26th of July 1576. After having taught Rhetoric at Paris he resided for a long time in Rome as secretary to Claudio Acquaviva (1590-1608). In 1637 he was confessor to Louis XIII . WORKS Father Sirmond was a most industrious scholar, and his criticisms were as enlightened as was possible for a man living in those times. He brought out many editions of Latin and Byzantine chroniclers of the Middle Ages:
An essay in which he denies the identity of St Denis Of Paris and St Denis The Areopagite (1641), caused a very lively controversy from which his opinion came out victorious. His ''Opera varia'', where this essay is to be found, as well as a description in Latin verse of his voyage from Paris to Rome in 1590, have appeared in 5 vols. (1696; new ed. Venice, 1728). To him is attributed, and no doubt correctly, ''Elogio di cardinale Baronio'' (1607). REFERENCES |