Note in a copy of Policraticus, Lug.
Bat. 1639.
"This extraordinary man flourished in the reign of Henry II., and
was, therefore, of Old Salisbury, not of New Salisbury, which was
not founded till the reign of Henry III. Having had the best
education of the time, and being not only a genius, but intimate
with the most eminent men, in particular with Pope Hadrian (who was
himself an Englishman), he became at length a bishop, and died in
1182. He had perused and studies most of the Latin classics, and
appears to have decorated every part of his work with splendid
fragments extracted out of them."--_Harris's Philosophical
Arrangements_, p. 457.
See more relating to John of Salisbury in Fabricii, _Bib. Med. AEtatis_,
iv. 380.; in Tanner, _Biblioth. Britannico Hibernica_; in Baillet's
_Jugemens des Savans_, ii. 204. See Senebier, _Catalogue des Manuscrits
de Geneve_, p. 226.
"Johannes Sarisb. multa ex Apuleio desumpsit," Almclooven, Plagiaror.
Syllab. 36.; and it might have been justly added, that he borrowed from
Petronius. See the references I have made on the last leaf.
Janus Dousa, in his _Notes on Petronius_, had called John of Salisbury
"Cornicula;" but Thomasius, in p. 240 of his work, _De Plagio
Literario_, vindicates him satisfactorily. See _Lipp. ad. Tacit. Annal
XII_. (pezzi di _porpora_), not noticed by any editor of Petronius. Has
various readings. See my old edition.
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