bellarmine

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noun Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621)
noun a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century)

It was in this state of mind that I began to read up Bellarmine on the one hand, and numberless Anglican writers on the other. — Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions, John Henry Newman
Therefore this place maketh most strongly for the joining of the Ecclesiasticall Supremacy to the Civill Soveraignty, contrary to that which Cardinall Bellarmine alledgeth it for. — Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
He will sometimes propend to us upon the reading a good writer, and at Bellarmine recoils as far back again; and the fathers justle him from one side to another. — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle

Bellarmino, Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine

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