Bucer, Martin, a German reformer who mediated between Luther and Zwingli, and became Professor of Divinity at Cambridge (1491~1551)Buchanan, George, Scottish scholar and humanist; tutor to Mary Queen of Scots and James VI.(1506-82)Burn, Richard, an English vicar compiled several law digests among them the Justice of the Peace, (1709-85)Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury, supported the claims of William of Orange to the English throne, and wrote the History of my Own Times (1643-1715)Button's, on the south side of Russell Street, Covert Garden succeeded Will's as the wits' resortButts, Dr.physician-in-ordinary to Henry VIII.(d.1545) and one of the characters in Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
CACUS, the mythological giant who stole the oxen of HerculesCamaldoli, Order of, founded by St.Romauld, a Benedictine (eleventh century) in the Vale of Camaldoli among the Tuscan ApenninesCambray, Confederates of, the pope, the emperor.France and Spain who by the League of Cambray combined to attack VeniceCampbell, Dr.John, a miscellaneous political and historical writer (1708~75)Capreae, or Capri, a small island nineteen miles south from Naples, the favourite residence of Augustus and Tiberius, and the scene of the latter's licentious orgiesCapuchins, a branch of the monastic order of the FranciscansCarlile, Richard, a disciple of Tom Paine's who was repeatedly imprisoned for his radicalism.He worked especially for the ******* of the Press (1790-1843)Carter, Mrs., a distinguished linguist and translator of EpictetusCasaubon, Isaac, Professor of Greek at Geneva Curator of the Royal Library at Paris, Prebendary of Canterbury: a famous sixteenth-century scholar (1559-1614),Catinat, French marshal in charge of the 1701 Italian campaign against Marlborough's ally, Prince Eugene of SavoyCave, Edward, printer, editor, publisher, and proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine (1691-1754)Chatelet, Madame du, Voltaire's mistress, c 1733-47 (d.1749)Chaulieu, Guillaume, a witty but negligent poetaster (1639-1720)Chaumette, Pierre, a violent extremist in the French Revolution who provoked even Robespierre's disgust; guillotined, 1794Childs, the clergy coffee-house in St.Paul's.St.James's (ib.)in the street of that name, was the resort of beaux and statesmen and a notorious gambling houseChillingworth, William, an able English controversial divine;suffered at the hands of the Puritans as an adherent of Charles I.(1602-43)Churchill, Charles, a clergyman and satirical Poet who attacked Johnson in The Ghost (1731-64)Clootz, a French Revolutionary and one of the founders of the "Worship of Reason:" guillotined 1794Colburn, (Zerah), b.at Vermont, U.S.A., in 1804, and noted in youth for his extraordinary powers of calculation (d.1840)Coligni, Gaspard de, French admiral and leader of the Huguenots;massacred on St.Bartholomew's Eve, 1572
Colle, Charles, dramatist and song-writer (d.1777); young Crebillon (d.1777) wrote fictionCondorcet, a French Marquis (1743-94) of moderate Revolutionary tendencies, who fell a victim to the Extremists He wrote extensively and clearly, but without geniusConstituent Assembly, the National Assembly of France from 1789to 1792
Corderius, a famous sixteenth-century teacher--Calvin was a pupil of his--in France and Switzerland (d.1564) who published several school-booksCortes, conqueror of Mexico (1485-1547); the Spanish ParliamentCotta, Caius, a famous Roman orator, partly contemporary with Cicero, who mentions him with honourCourland, a province on the Baltic once belonging to Poland since 1795 to RussiaCoventry, Solicitor-General of England in 1616, Attorney-General in 1620 and Lord Keeper in 1625Cradock, Joseph, a versatile writer and actor whose rambling Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs contain several anecdotes of Johnson and his circle (1742-1826)Curll and Osborne, two notorious booksellers who owe their immortality to Pope's DunciadCurtius, the noble Roman youth who leaped into the chasm in the Forum and so closed it by the sacrifice of Rome's most precious possession--a good citizen DACIER, Andrew, a French scholar who edited the "Delphin" edition of the classics for the Dauphin, and translated many of them (1651-1722)Dangerfield, Thomas, Popish plot discoverer and false witness (1650?-1685)Davies, Tom, the actor-bookseller who wrote the Memoirs of David Garrick, and was one of Johnson's circle (1712-85)."The famous dogma of the old physiologists" is "corruptio unius generatio est alterius" (Notes and Queries, Ser.8, vol.ix., p.56)Davila, a famous French soldier and historian who served under Henry of Navarre; wrote the famous History of the Civil War in France (1576-1631)Della Crusca, the signature of Robert Merry (1755-98), the leader of a mutual-admiration band of poetasters, who had their head-quarters at Florence, and hence called themselves the Della Cruscans.Gifford (q.v.) pulverised them in his Baviad and MerviadDentatus, the old-type Roman who, after many victories and taking immense booty, retired to a small farm which he himself tilledDesfontaines, a Jesuit who put out a pirated edition of Voltaire's La LigueDessaix, a distinguished, upright, and chivalrous French general under Napoleon, who fell at Marengo (1800)Diafoirus, the name of two pedantic characters in Moliere's Malade ImaginaireDiatessaron, a harmony of the gospels, the earliest example being that compiled by Tatian c.170 A.D.