The life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, doctor and knight, commonly known as a magician / Henry Morley.

  • Morley, Henry, 1822-1894.
Date:
1856
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Credit: The life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, doctor and knight, commonly known as a magician / Henry Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not without also bringing ignominy on the whole Sor- bonne.” Bold speech like this could only invite persecution, and th]s, as we shall see presently, was not the only way in which Cornelius was making himself odious in a town noted for bigotry. Metz was most cruel to the Jews, and met alike by cruelty and treachery the first efforts of the Reformers to obtain hearing within its walls. The German Lutherans desired much through Metz to intro- duce the leaven of their bold opinions into France. At first they were met by direct persecution, and years after- wards, when it was politically requisite to promise them a chapel, and they went out to worship on the faith of such a promise, they were cruelly betrayed to slaughter. Jean le Clerc, the first man who dared to preach the Re- formed doctrine in Metz, not long after the date of Agrippa s battling with the monks, was by the order of Nicolas Savin, the Inquisitor, publicly whipped through the streets on several successive days; and in the year following, before the convent of the Celestines, the inge- nuity of Savin procured for him a cruel martyrdom : his nose was first cut off, then his right hand, then a hot iron crown was placed upon his head, after which he was burnt alive . From the hand of this Nicolas Savin, a burly, ignorant, and vicious man, who years afterwards was ex- pelled from Metz for civil crime, but returned and lived ***** Generate de Metz, par des Religieux Benedictins de la Conare- gatron de St. Vannes. Metz, 1775. Tom. iii. p. 8. E 2