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Bibliography and Abbreviations
Abbreviations
Amerbachkor. = Die Amerbachkorrespondenz. Edited by Aldred Hartmann, et al. Basel: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1942- .
Autour de Servet et Castellion = Becker, B. ed. Autour de Michel Servet et de Sébastien Castellion: Receuil. Haarlem: Tjeenk Willink, 1953.
Bèze Cor. = Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze. Edited by H. Aubert, et al. Geneva: Droz, 1960- .
Bonnet, Nouveaux récits = Bonnet, Jules. Nouveaux récits du seizième siècle. Paris: Grassart, 1870. link.
Buisson = Buisson, Ferdinand. Sébastien Castellion: Sa vie et son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris: Hachette, 1892. Vol. 1, Vol. 2 (from Gallica, vol. 1, Vol. 2)
CO = Ioannis Calvini Opera quae supersunt omnia. 59 vols. Edited by Baum, Cunitz, and Reuss. Corpus Reformatorum. Braunschweig: C. A. Schwetschke and sons, 1863-1900. Link to full view catalogue records (Hathi). Link to downloadable vols. (Bibliothèque de Genève).
Droz, “Castelloniana” = Droz, Eugénie. “Castelloniana.” In idem, Chemins de l’hérésie: Textes et documents. 4 vols. Geneva: Slatkine, 1973, 2:325-432.
Gomez-Géraud = Gomez-Géraud, Maria-Christine, ed. Sébastien Castellion: Des Écritures à l’écriture. Bibliothèque de la Renaissance. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013.
Guggisberg=Hans R. Guggisberg, Sebastian Castellio, 1515-1563: Humanist and Defender of Religious Toleration in a Confessional Age, translated by Bruce Gordon. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
Hist. Eccl. = Théodore de Bèze, Histoire ecclésiastique des Églises Réformées au royaume de France, 3 vols., edited by G. Baum, and E. Reuss (Paris: Fischbacher, 1882-1889)
Matrikel=Hans Georg Wackernagel, ed., Die Matrikel der Universität Basel (Basel: Universitätsbibliothek, 1951- ).
Other Major Works about Castellio (Under Construction)
Bainton, Roland, et al. Castellioniana: Quatre études sur Sébastien Castellion el l’idée de la tolérance. Leiden: Brill, 1951.
Calvetti, Carla Gallicet. Sebastiano Castellion, il riformato umanista contro il riformatore Calvino: Per una lettura filosofico-teologica dei Dialogi IV di Castellion, Publicazioni del Centro di Richerche di Metafisica, Sezione ‘Fontes’ 3. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 1989.
Calvetti, Carla Gallicet. Il Testamento dottrinale di Sebastiano Castellion e l’evoluzione razionalistica del suo pensiero. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2005.
Guggisberg, Hans R. Sebastian Castellio, 1515-1563: Humanist and Defender of Religious Toleration in a Confessional Age. Edited and translated by Bruce Gordon. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 [orig., Sebastian Castellio, 1515-1563 : Humanist und Verteidiger der religiösen Toleranz im konfessionellen Zeitalter, 1997].
Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara, ed. Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563): Dissidenz und Toleranz. Beiträge zu einer internationalen Tagung auf dem Monte Verità in Ascona 2015. Refo500 Academic Studies 46. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018.
Plath, Uwe. Castellios Selbstverständnis in seiner Auseinandersetzung mit Calvin. Schriften der Internationalen Castellio Gesellschaft 2 (Basel: Schwabe, 2019).
Skupien Dekens, Carine. Traduire pour le peuple de Dieu: La syntaxe française dans la traduction de la Bible par Sébastien Castellion, Bâle, 1555, THR 456 (Geneva: Droz, 2009).
Veen, Mirjam G. K. van. De kunst van het twijfelen: Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563): humanist, calvinist, vrijdenker. Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2012.
Veen, Mirjam van. Die Freiheit des Denkens: Sebastian Castellio, Wegbereiter der Toleranz 1515-1563, eine Biographie. Translated by Andreas Ecke. Essen, 2015.
Castellio’s Works (Under Construction)
Bibliography of Castellio’s Works from Buisson
Original Works: (For editions and translations click here)
Conseil à la France désolée. 1st, 1562 Edition, from Google Books, Gallica
Dutch Translation: Raet aen dat verwoeste Vranckrijck. 1st Edition, 1578, from Google Books.
Critical edition: Conseil à la France désolée. Edited by Florence Alazard, Stéphan Geonget, Laurent Gerbier, Paul-Alexis Mellet, and Romain Menini. Textes littéraires français. Geneva: Droz, 2017.
Other modern edition: Conseil à la France désolée. Edited by Marius F. Valkhoff. Geneva: Droz, 1967.
English Translation: Advice to a Desolate France. Translated by Wouter Valkhoff. Shepherdstown, West Virginia: Patmos Press, 1975.
Contra libellum Calvini. 1st published, 1612 Edition, from Google Books, Gallica
Dutch Translation:. Corte ende duydelijcke wederlegginghe van ’tghene door Mr. Iohan Calvijn tot beweringe vande macht der Overheyt, int straffen der ketteren, by gebracht wert. 1613, from Google Books.
Critical edition: Contra libellum Calvini: A New Critical Edition Supplemented by the Text of the Basle Manuscript-fragment. Edited by Uwe Plath. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 160. Geneva: Droz, 2019.
French Translation: Contre le libelle de Calvin, après la mort de Michel Servet. Edited and translated by Etienne Barilier. Carouge-Genève: Editions Zoé, 1998.
German Translation: Gegen Calvin, Contra libellum Calvini. Edited by Wolfgang F. Stammler, translated by Uwe Plath. Alcorde Bibliothek historischer Denkwürdigkeiten. Essen: Alcorde Verlag, 2015.
Spanish Translation: Contra el libelo de Calvino. Edited and translated Joaquín Fernández Cacho and Ana Gómez Rabal. Villanueva de Sijena (Huesca): Instituto de Estudios Sijenenses Miguel Servet, 2009.
De arte dubitandi et confidendi, ignorandi et sciendi. Edited by Elisabeth Feist Hirsch. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 29. Leiden: Brill, 1981.
French Translation: De l'art de douter et de croire, d'ignorer et de savoir. Translated by Charles Baudouin. Carrières sous Poissy: Editions La Cause, [1996].
German Translation: Die Kunst des Zweifelns und Glaubens, des Nichtwissens und Wissens = De arte dubitandi et confidendi ignorandi et sciendi, edited by Wolfgang F. Stammler, translated by Werner Stingl, and commentary by Hans-Joachim Pagel. Bibliothek Historischer Denkwürdigkeiten. Essen: Alcorde Verlag,, 2015
De haereticis, an sint persequendi. 1st Edition, 1554, from Google Books, from E-rara.
Critical edition: De haereticis an sint persequendi--Von Ketzeren--Traicté des heretiques: Synoptische Edition mit Kommentaren zu den Textauszügen. Edited by Barbara Mahlmann, et al. Schriften der Internationalen Castellio Gesellschaft. Basel: Schwabe, forthcoming.
Modern facsimile edition: De haereticis, an sint persequendi...: Reproduction en fac-similé de l'édition de 1554. Edited by Sape van der Woude. Geneva: Droz, 1954.
French translation: Traicté des hérétiques, à savoir si on les doit persécuter. “Rouen: Pierre Freneau, 1554” = [Lyon: Michel Chastillon, 1557] (On the printer and date, see Droz, “Castelloniana,” 355-72)
Modern edition: A. Olivet, ed., Traité des hérétiques. Édition nouvelle. Geneva: A. Jullien, 1913.
English Translation: Concerning Heretics, Whether they are to be persecuted and How they are to be treated, A collection of the opinions of learned men both ancient and modern. Translated by Roland H. Bainton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1935.
De haereticis non puniendis
Modern Edition and French Translation: De l'impunité des hérétiques, De haereticis non puniendis. Edited by Bruno Becker and Marius F. Valkhoff. Geneva: Droz, 1971.
Defensio suarum translationum Bibliorum. 1st Edition, 1562, from E-rara.
Dialogi IIII: De Praedestinatione [pp. 1-82], De Electione [pp. 83-162], De Libero Arbitrio [163-254], De Fide [255-294]. Also contains An possit homo per spiritum sanctum perfecte obedire legi Dei [295-331], De Praedestinatione scriptum Sebastiani Castellionis ad D. Mart. Borrhaum [332-445], Defensio ad authorem libri, cui titulus est, Calumniae Nebulonis [dated Basel, Sept. 1558, part 2, pp. 1-57], De Calumnia [dated April 1557, pt. 2, 58-135]. 1st Edition, 1578, from Google Books, E-rara.
1613 Edition contains all of the above and adds Annotationes … in caput nonum ad Rom., quibus materia electionis et praedestinationis amplius illustratur [part 2, pp. 1-30], Quinque impedimentorum, quae mentes hominum et oculos a veri in divinis cognitione abducunt [pt. 3, 1-30], Tractatus de iustificatione [pt. 4, 1-89]. 2nd Edition, 1613, from Google Books.
Dutch Translation of just the first 4 Dialogues: Tsamensprueken vande Predestinatie ende Schickinge Godes, Verkiesinge, Vrye-Wille, Tghelooue. 1st Dutch Edition, from Google Books.
Dialogi Sacri. 1545 Edition, from Google Books (earliest online edition for download, with prefatory letter to Cordier), 1543 Geneva edition of Books 2 and 3 only, from E-rara, Many more editions are available online, many with the title Dialogorum sacrorum … libri quatuor
Modern Edition of Book 1: Amherdt, David, and Yves Giraud, eds. Dialogues sacrés = Dialogi Sacri (Premier Livre). Textes Littéraires Français 571. Geneva: Droz, 2004.
Biblical Translations:
Biblia, interprete Sebastiano Castalione, una cum eiusdem annotationibus. 1st Edition, 1551, from Google Books.
1554 edition with the Annotation on Romans 9, from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
1554 edition without the Annotation on Romans 9, from Google Books.
La Bible, nouvellement translatée avec la suite de l’histoire depuis le tems d’Esdras jusqu’aux Maccabées, e depuis les Maccabées jusqu’à Christ, item avec des annotacions sur les passages difficiles. Basel: Hervagius, 1555. 1st Edition, from Google Books, part 1, beginning to Song of Songs 8, and Google Books, part 2, Wisdom of Solomon to the end.
Jonas Propheta, heroico carmine latino descriptus. 1st Edition, 1545, from Gallica
Moses Latinus ex hebraeo factus. 1st Edition, 1546, from Google Books
Psalterium, reliquaque sacrarum literarum carmina et precationes. 1st Edition, 1547, from Google Books.
Other Editions and Translations:
Diodorus: Diodori Siculi bibliothecae historicae libri XV, hoc est, quotquot Graece extant de quadraginta, quorum quinque nunc primum Latine eduntur. 1st Edition, 1559, from Google Books, E-rara.
Herodotus: Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiae libri IX, interprete Laurentio Valla, eiusdem Herodoti libellus de vita Homeri, interprete Conrado Heresbachio. 1st Edition, 1559, from Google Books.
Homer: Homeri Opera graeco-latina, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia. Hoc est: Illias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia et hymni, praeterea Homeri vita ex Plutarcho. 1st Edition, 1561, from Google Books.
Josephus: Mosis Institutio reipublicae graeco-latina, ex Josepho in gratiam puerorum decerpta, ad discendam non solum graecam, verum etiam latinam linguam, una cum pietate ac religione. 1st Edition, 1546, from Google Books.
Kempis, Thomas: De Imitando Christo contemnendisque mundi vanitatibus libellus authore Thoma Kempisio. 1st Edition, 1563, from Google Books.
Ochino, Bernardino:
Bernardini Ochini Senensis Dialogi XXX, in duos libros divisi. 1st Edition, 1563, from Google Books.
Bernhardini Ochini Senesis Expositio epistolae Pauli ad Romanos. 1st Edition, 1545, from Google Books.
Sibyllina Oracula de graeco in latinum conversa et in eadem annotationes. 1st, 1546 Edition, from Google Books.
Theologia Germanica, Libellus aureus, hoc est brevis et praegnans, quomodo sit exuendus vetus homo induendusque novus. 1st Edition, 1557, from Google Books.
French Translation: La Theologie germanicque, Livret auquel est traicté Comment il faut dépouiller le vieil homme, et vestir le nouveau. 1st Edition, 1558, from Google Books.
Dutch Translation: Theologia Germanica, een gulden Handtboecrken. 1st Edition, 1590, from Google Books.
Thucydides: Thucydides, Laurentio Valla interprete, nunc postremo correctus, et ex Graeco innumeris locis emendatus. 1st Edition, 1564, from Google Books.
Xenophon: Xenophontis philosophi ac historici excellentissimi opera quae quidem extant omnia tam graeca quam latina. 1st Edition, 1545, from Google Books.