Apologia pro Jul. Caesare Vanino

LIFE
AND
PARENTS.

JULIUS CAESAR VANINI, *

whom others call Lucilius original: "Lucilium" †, Luciolus ‡, Lucius ⸸, and also Pompey original: "Pompejum" β, was born in Italy; he was seen by Spain, Germany, England, and Belgium; he was cherished by France, which also built his funeral pyre. He first saw the light in the town of Taurisano in the Kingdom of Naples, which is subject to the Duke of the same name. His father was Joannes Baptista Vanini, who governed the affairs of a certain Duke for many years with singular loyalty and prudence. γ In him there was such vigor of mind that, when he was dying, he snatched himself from his bed, saying, It is not fitting for me to die except standing. δ Nature gave him a mother, Beatrix Lopez de Noguera, ζ a woman from a most illustrious family ϑ; Fortune gave him a stepmother in Rome, once the head of the world, in whose lap he was imbued with the rudiments of letters and applied himself to Philosophy and Theology with great hope ϰ, under the guidance

• In the Titles of the Books.
  † Gramond, History of France, book 3, at the end. Garasse, Curious Doctrine, whom Bayle follows in the Historical Dictionary, 2nd edition, page 1018, column 2. Paschasius, in the work titled Anti-Garasse, pages 30, 823.
  ‡ Johann Cluver in the Epitome of the History of the World.
  ⸸ Garasse, in his Curious Doctrine, book 8, page 1024.
  β Zeiler in the Topography of France, in the description of Toulouse.
  γ Vanini in the Preface to the Amphitheatre.
  δ Vanini, Exercise 27, page 153 of the Amphitheatre.
  ζ Vanini, Exercise 8, page 71 of the Amphitheatre.
  ϑ Vanini, Dialogue 60, page 493 of On the Secrets of Nature.
  ϰ Gramond, History of France, book 3.