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Chapter 1 - The Pensieri filosofici

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

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Jesçay bien, que mon labeur sera deplaisant à trois manières de gens: premièrement aux heretiques formez et de profession, secondement, à ceux qui en sont de cueur et du ventre, et non de ceremonie: et tiercement aux politiques, qui n'ont autre Dieu que le repos, et qui ne se soucieroyent pas beaucoup de Dieu ny de son Paradis, qui le servist ny qui l'offençast, pourveu qu'il luy pleust leur accorder une perpetuelle residence en ce monde: desquels le plus beau mot est, VIVONS, VIVONS; ne se souvenans pas, que vivans en ce monde hors la crainte de Dieuils sont infiniment plus morts, que le plus vieil trespassè, dont les os purroyent estre à sainct Innocent.

(A. Sorbin, preface to Conciles de Tholose, Beziers, et Narbonne… contre les Albigeois, Paris, 1569)

(I know that my undertaking will displease three sorts of people: firstly those who are heretics by conviction; secondly those who are fellow-travellers, even if they are not members of heretical Churches; and thirdly the politiques, who worship no other God but their own convenience, and who would give little thought to God, or to Paradise, nor to the question of what constitutes service of God and what constitutes heresy, provided they could be guaranteed a perpetual residence in this world. […]

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Paolo Sarpi
Between Renaissance and Enlightenment
, pp. 12 - 43
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1983

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