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Charles Diodati at Geneva

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Donald C. Dorian*
Affiliation:
New Jersey College for Women

Abstract

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Comment and Criticism
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1944

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References

1 Andrew Clark, ed., Register of the University of Oxford (Oxford Historical Society, xii; Oxford, 1888), ii, part iii, 444.

2 John and J. A. Venn, eds., Alumni Cantabrigienses (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), ii, part i, 44; David Masson, The Life of John Milton, 2d ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1881), i, 219.

3 For first revealing this fact I am indebted to Madame Louis Achard (née Gautier-Diodati) of Geneva, who kindly informed me of it in a letter of August 31, 1941.

4 Matricula Studiosorum S. Theologiœ in Geneuensi Accidentia ab Anno MDCXII, MS. fr. 141c (Inv. 345), Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire de Genève, f. 9vo. Monsieur Fernand Aubert, Conservateur des Manuscrits at the Bibliothèque, has had the great kindness to send me a photostat of this page, clearly showing Diodati's signature.

5 Ibid., f. 22vo, under the year 1630. This and the two later quotations from the album I owe also to Monsieur Aubert, who had them transcribed and sent to me with his letter of June 25, 1942.

6 Charles Borgeaud, Histoire de l'Université de Genève (Geneva: Georg & C°, Libraires de l'Université, 1900), i, 337.

7 Ibid., i, 639–640.

8 Ibid., i, 341–347.

9 Matricula Studiosorum, f. 2ro.

10 Ibid.

11 Borgeaud, op. cit., i, 163–164, 455.

12 I am preparing for publication a full account of Charles Diodati and his family, which will include the discussion of this and other new information.