Kenelmus Digbius

Kenelmus Digbius, eques,"Kenelmus Digbius, eques" ; "D[ominus] Kenelmus Digbi eques": vide imaginem. Anglice Sir Kenelme Digbie vel Digby (ad Gayhurst comitatus Buckinghamiensis natus die 11 Iulii 1603; mortuus Londinii die 11 Iunii 1665), fuit  aulicusque aevo Caroli I et II .

Filius fuit Everardi Digbii, qui, particeps cum Guidone Fawkes , anno 1606 ultimo supplicio affectus est. Digbius in matrimonium anno fere 1625 Venetiam Stanley duxit, quae eo liberos liberasque peperit, atque subito anno 1633 mortua est. Ille postea se in Collegium Greshamense retraxit, ubi curiosissima experimenta chemica, alchemica, pharmacologica conduxit.

Opera plura de religione et philosophia naturali divulgari iussit; plura scripta post mortem proderunt, de "pulvere sympathetico" quem primus invenit, de plantarum vegetatione, recentius etiam de vita sua, de amore suo Venetiaeque (quam narrationem nominibus fictis celavit), de expeditione piratica anno 1628 suscepta. Insuper manuscripta praeceptorum culinariorum medicinaliumque a Digbio partim scripta, partim congessa, post eius mortem amanuensis Georgius Hartman divulgavit. 

Collectus Digbianus manuscriptorum mediaevalium in Bibliotheca Bodleiana servatur, inter quae textus cantilenae Rolandi carminis epici Anglonormannice scriptus, numero Digbianus 23.

 Scripta 
 1638 : A Conference with a Lady about Choice of a Religion. Lutetiae
 1641 : Sir Kenelm Digby's Honour maintained
 1643 : Observations upon Religio Medici Textus editionis recentis
 1644 : Observations on the 22nd Stanza in the Ninth Canto of the Second Book of Spenser's "Faery Queene”
 1644 : Two treatises, in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into, in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules. Lutetiae editio 1645 editio 1669
 1655 (, interpr.): Demonstratio immortalitatis animae rationalis, sive Tractatus duo philosophici, in quorum priori natura et operationes corporum, in posteriori vero, naturae animae rationalis ad evincendam illius immortalitatem explicantur. Parisiis: apud Federicum Leonard Textus
 1651 : Institutionum Peripateticorum libri quinque cum Appendice Theologica de Origine Mundi. Lutetiae
 1651 : Letters between the Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight, concerning Religion. Londinii Textus
 1652 : A Discourse concerning Infallibility in Religion, written by Sir Kenelme Digby to the Lord George Digby, eldest sonne of the Earle of Bristol. Lutetiae
 1653 (interpres) : A Treatise of Adhering to God, written by Albert the Great, Bishop of Ratisbon
 1658 : A Late Discourse made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France ..... touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy. Londinii editio 1669
 1661 : A Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants. Londinii editio 1669
 1667 : Discours sur la végétation des plantes. Lutetiae: chez la veuve Moet
 1668 (George Hartman, ed.) : Choice and Experimented Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities. Londinii: Henry Brome 
 1669 : The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened. Londinii: Henry Brome 
 1827 (Nicholas Harris Nicolas, ed.) : Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First, written by himself. Londinii: Saunders and Otley Textus
 1828 (Nicholas Harris Nicolas, ed.) : Castrations from the Private Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby: not published. Textus
 1868 (John Bruce, ed.) : Journal of a Voyage into the Mediterranean by Sir Kenelm Digby, A.D. 1628. Londinii: Camden Society Textus
 1877 (Henry A. Bright, ed.) : Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers in the possession of Henry A. Bright. Londinii: Roxburghe Club Textus
 1955-1958 (V. Gabrieli, ed.) : "A New Digby Letter Book: In Praise of Venetia" in National Library of Wales Journal vol. 9 (1955/6) pp. 113–48, 440–462; vol. 10 (1957/8) pp. 81–105
 1958 (V. Gabrieli, ed.) : Loose Fantasies. Romae: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura

 Notae 

 Bibliographia 
 Fontes fere coaevi
 ante 1696 : John Aubrey, Brief Lives (Andrew Clark, ed., Brief Lives, chiefly of contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey between the years 1669 and 1696 [2 voll. Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1898] 1 2) vol. 1 pp. 224-233 et alibi

 Recentiora
 Priscilla Bain, Maggie Black, "A Glance at the Life of Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, at his cookbook called The Closet Opened ..." in Harlan Walker, ed., Cooks and Other People: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1995 (Londinii: Prospect Books, 1996) 
 E. W. Bligh, Sir Kenelm Digby and his Venetia. Londiinii: Simpson Low, Marston, 1932
 B. J. Dobbs, "Studies in the natural philosophy of Sir Kenelm Digby" in Ambix vol. 18 (1971) pp. 1–25; vol. 20 (1973) pp. 143–163; vol. 21 (1974) pp. 1–28
 Michael Foster, "Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603–1665)" in 
 Michael Foster, "Sir Kenelm Digby as man of religion and thinker" in Downside Review vol. 106 (1988) pp. 35–58, 101–125
 John Farquhar Fulton, Sir Kenelm Digby: Writer, Bibliophile and Protagonist of William Harvey. Novi Eboraci: Oliver, 1937
 Sidney Lee, "Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)" in 
 Thomas Longueville, The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby. Londinii:  Longmans, Green, 1896 Textus
 Robert T. Petersson, Sir Kenelm Digby, the Ornament of England, 1603–1665. Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: Harvard University Press, 1956 Exemplar mutuabilis

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