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CONTENTS Life of John Picus 3 Picus’ First Letter to Francis 26 Picus’ Letter to Corneus 34 Picus’ Second Letter to Francis 37 Picus’ Commentary on Psalm 15 42 Twelve Rules of Spiritual Battle 50 Twelve Weapons of Spiritual Battle 58 Twelve Properties of a Lover 63 Picus’ Prayer unto God 71 NOTATIONS ° Refers to words that are glossed at the bottom. ¦ Refers to places where More has omitted text from Gianfresco’s original Latin biography. Δ Indicates where More makes a significant change to the Latin original. ⌐ ¬ Denotes additions by More to the Latin text. [ ] Bracketed numbers in the outside margin refer to the corresponding page numbers in volume 1 of The Complete Works of Thomas More (Yale UP, 1997). CW Refers to The Complete Works of Thomas More (Yale UP, 1963-1997).
5 10 15 20 THE LIFE OF JOHN PICUS, Earl of Mirandula, 1 a great lord of Italy, an excellent cunning 2 man in all sciences,° 3 ¦ ⌐ and virtuous of living; with divers° epistles and other works of the said John Picus, full of great science, virtue, and wisdom: whose life and works be worthy and digne° to be read and often to be had in memory. ¬ ⌐ Translated out of Latin into English by Master Thomas More. ¬ ⌐ Unto his right entirely beloved sister in Christ, Joyeuce Leigh, Thomas More greeting in our Lord. ¬ ⌐ It is, and of long time hath been, my well beloved sister, a custom in the beginning of the New Year, friends to send between° presents or gifts, as the witnesses of their love and friendship, and also signifying that they desire each to other that year a good continuance and prosperous end of that lucky beginning. But comm only all those presents, that are used customably all in this manner between friends to be sent,° be such things as pertain only unto the body, either to be fed or to be clad or some otherwise delighted: by which it seemeth that their friendship is but fleshly and stretcheth° in manner to the body 3 sciences fields of knowledge / divers various, several / 5 digne fitting / 14 send between exchange / 18-19 that are used customably…to be sent that are typically sent / 21 stretcheth extends ¦ 3 From the Latin original, More naturally omits “issued by Gianfrancesco, the son of the famous Galeotto Picus” as well as a paragraph in which Gianfrancesco defends his Life against those who, noting that he was the nephew and pupil of John Picus, might claim that his account is “prejudiced by favor or flattery” (unless otherwise noted, all English translations of the Latin original are those of Clarence H. Miller, see CW 1:295). 1. Mirandula: Mirandola is located in north Italy, 58 km north of Bologna, capital of the region. 2. cunning: Throughout his Life of Picus, More speaks of Picus’ “cunning,” used either adjectivally (as here) in the sense of “possessing knowledge or learning” (cf. OED s.v. cunning a. 1a) or substantivally to mean “knowledge” or “learning.” Why More emphasizes the cunning of Picus is not known. 3. an excellent…all sciences: The Latin text reads viri omni disciplinarum genere consumatissimi, “a man of [48] [51] The intent or meaning of New Year’s gifts Presents bodily
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