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Annales ecclesiastici auctore Caesare Baronio Sorano
congregatione oratorii S. R. E. : Presbitero Cardinali Tituli sanctorum martyrum
Nerei & Achillei & Sancta Sedis apolisticae bibliothecario. Tomus Undecimus (Only).
Baronius. Venetiis : apud haredem Hieronymi Scoti, 1606. Written by Cardinal Caesar Baronius at the
request of St. Philip Neri, the Annales Ecclesiastici are the definitive
history of the Catholic church from the birth of Christ to 1198.
Although it is a response to an anti-Catholic history, this work is
notable for Baronius' objectivity and emphasis on historical fact rather
than theology. Original armorial boards with gilt crests to front and back, edges worn down with some exposure, but the spine has been rebacked by a much later leather with a gilt title label and raised bands. Interior with stamp and bookplate of Lord Brandon, Maurice Crosbie of Irish Peerage, see below. A few spots and stains, but pages quite well preserved. Measures 14" x 9.5". Good luck! Baronius, cardinal and ecclesiastical historian,
born at Sora in the Kingdom of Naples, 1538 died at Rome 1607. His
"Annales Ecclesiastici", mark an epoch in historiography and merited for
its author, after Eusebius, the title of a Father of Ecclesiastical
History. It is a classic of Counter-Reformation scholarship--an effort
to show that the true church had always been Catholic - albeit its
weaknesses of research and criticism of sources. The first volume
appeared in 1588 and was universally acclaimed for its surprising wealth
of information, its splendid erudition, and its timely vindication of
papal claims. More impressive was the truly phenomenal sale the book
secured and the immediate demand for its translation into the principal
European languages. It was Baronius' intention to produce a volume every
year; but the second was not ready until early in 1590. The next four
appeared yearly, the seventh late in 1596, the other five at
still-longer intervals, up to 1607, when, just before his death, he
completed the twelfth volume, which he had foreseen in a vision would be
the term of his work. It brought the history down to 1198, the year of
the accession of Innocent III. The "Annals" remained the inspiration of
students of history for three centuries and an inexhaustible storehouse
for research. No one work has treated so completely the epoch with which
they deal. Nowhere are there to be found collected so many important
documents. Unbiased scholars recognize in them the foundation-stone of
true historical science, and in their author the qualities of the model
historian: indefatigable diligence in research, passion for
verification, accuracy of judgment, and unswerving loyalty to truth.
Despite this care, Baronio cited many documents as authentic which a
more enlightened criticism has rejected as apocryphal. His most serious
defects were incident to the very accuracy he essayed in casting his
history in the strictly annalistic form. The attempt to assign to each
successive year its own events involved him in numerous chronological
errors. Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Brandon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maurice Crosbie, 1st Baron Brandon, (c1689 - c1762) was a British Member of Parliament for County Kerry in Ireland. He held the office from 1713 until 1758.
He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin. He was knighted in approximately 1711, and was created 1st Baron Brandon in 1758.
He died circa 1762 and is buried in Ardfert Earl of Glandore
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Baron Brandon, in the County of Kerry, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1758 for Sir Maurice Crosbie, who had previously represented County Kerry in the Irish House of Commons for over forty years. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was a member of the Irish Parliament for Ardfert. In 1771 he was created Viscount Crosbie, of Ardfert in the County of Kerry, and in 1776 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Glandore,
in the County of Cork. Both titles were in the Peerage of Ireland. On
his death the titles passed to his son, the second Earl. He sat in the House of Lords as one of the original twenty-eight Irish Representative Peers.
He was childless and on his death in 1815 the viscountcy and earldom
became extinct. He was succeeded in the barony by his cousin, the fourth
Baron. He was the son of the Very Reverend the Hon. Maurice Crosbie,
Dean of Limerick, younger son of the first Baron. Lord Brandon was a
clergyman and served as Rector of Castle Island in County Kerry. He had
no surviving male issue and on his death in 1832 the barony became
extinct as well.
The family seat was Ardfert Abbey, Ardfert, County Kerry.
Barons Brandon (1758)
Earls of Glandore (1776)
Barons Brandon (1758; Reverted)
- William Crosbie, 4th Baron Brandon (1771–1832)
- Hon. Maurice Crosbie (d. 1816)
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