6 Julius Caesar Vanini

at the Ecumenical Council of Trent, where original: "adversus hæreses pugnavit" he fought against heresies, and he published an Apologia Apology or formal defense for the truth of the Mosaic and Christian Law against Physicos, Astronomos, & Politicos Natural Philosophers, Astronomers, and Politicians.

Indeed, the tireless diligence of this man did not stop at these things; he set out to illustrate all parts of Philosophy with commentaries. Some of these he only planned in his mind, while others he brought original: "ad umbilicum perduxit" to completion. Of the former kind are his works On the Immortality of the Soul and the second part of the Amphitheater on Stoic Fate. Regarding the rest, his first care was for Aristotle, writing on his books On Generation and On Meteors. He exercised his intellect in Moral Philosophy on True Wisdom and on The Contempt of Glory. In the Contemplation of Nature, he composed natural philosophical Commentaries, the summary of which is the work we possess titled On the Secrets of Nature. Furthermore, he wrote the Physico-magical, or

• Vanini in the Preface to the Amphitheatre.
  † Vanini, Exercise 8, pages 38 and 64.
  ‡ Vanini, Dialogue 28, page 172 of On the Secrets of Nature.
  ⊥ Vanini, Dialogue 44, page 271 of On the Secrets of Nature.
  β Vanini, Exercise 33, page 231 of the Amphitheatre.
  γ Vanini, Exercise 50 of the Amphitheatre.
  δ Vanini, Dialogue 51, page 369 of On the Secrets of Nature. Garasse also mentions and possessed this in his Curious Doctrine.
  ζ Vanini, Dialogue 50, page 359 of On the Secrets of Nature.
  ϑ Vanini, Dialogue 47, page 301; Dialogue 27, page 166; Dialogue 15, page 88 of On the Secrets of Nature.
  κ Vanini, Exercise 8, pages 71 and 79 of the Amphitheatre; Dialogue 39, page 252 of On the Secrets of Nature; Exercise 39, page 272 of the Amphitheatre.