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LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1517 604. To HENRY GLAREANUS. Querela Pacis p. 54. (Louvain.) Lond. xxix. 60: LB. iv. 617. (July 1517.) [The Declamatio de Morte was composed in the circumstances here described (cf. I. p. 18. 23-6), and after being lost to Erasmus for some years with other papers which he had left behind in Italy (ef. Epp. 270. 60 n. and go. 16 n.), it came into his hands again in Dee. 1816 (ef. Ep. 502. 10,11 n.). He printed it first with the Querela Pacis in Dec. 1517 (a: cf. p. 14); in the subsequent editions, B, y, 5; and in a volume containing the Enchiridion and the De praeparatione ad mortem, Basle, H. Froben and Nic. Episcopius, Aug. 1535, which follows 6. It was also introduced, without this preface, into the enlarged edition of the De conscribendis epistolis, Basle, Froben, Aug. 1522 (ef. Ep. 71 introd.) as a second example of the Epistola consolatoria : addressed to Antony Sucquet, a member of Charles’ council, on the death of his son, perhaps the John Sucquet (ta. 22 March 1522) of EE. 13. It is also found in the edition, Basle, H. Froben and Nic. Episcopius, 1534; but in the Basle Opera, 1540, i. 372, it is removed. This preface may be dated with Ep. 603. LI. 8, 9 show that Erasmus expected to find Glareanus still at Basle. In committing to him the decision whether or no the Declamatio should be printed, he acted with design, In an unprinted letter to Myconius, 25 Oct. 1518 (see Fritzsche, Glarean, pp. 23.4), Glareanus says that he had written a Declamatio mortis .contemnendae, and that Erasmus had once promised to publish it in company with something of his own. For some reason Erasmus was now unwilling to fulfil this promise ; and evidently hoped by placing the matter in Glareanus’ hands to be able at least to claim that he had not acted without giving notice to his friend. But Glareanus, being in Paris, was not forewarned ; and in consequence was sorely disappointed to find, instead of his own composition, a declamation by Erasmus on the same subject. } ERASMVS ROTERODAMVS HENRICO GLAREANO SVO S. D. ANTE complures annos, cum Senae valetudinis confirmandae gratia menses aliquot commorarer, Alexandrum archiepiscopum titulo diui Andreae, felicissimae indolis adolescentem, apud quem tum diuersabar, variis thematis, quas Graeci peAéras vocant, exercui. Ex his 2. Alexandrum 5: D. Guilielmum a. 4. ay: thematiis Bô. 2, Alexandrum] Stewart (c. 1493— o Sept. 1513), natural son of James IV of Scotland, with whom he fell at Flodden. In 1502 he was appointed Archdeacon of St. Andrews, and in 1504-5 Abp. in succession to his uncle (Ep. 48. 6 n.). In 1507 he was sent abroad to study, and settled at Padua, where he was joined in 1508 by his natural brother James Stewart, Earl of Moray (c. 1499-1544: see DNB). About Dec. Erasmus became his tutor in rhetoric at Padua, and the party moved on to Siena in 1509 (Iv. 165-9). The visit to Rome and Naples(rv. 210-3) probably took place in April 1509, not June, as suggested in Ep. 216 introd. ; since Erasmus, writingin 1528 about his pupil’s gift of the ring Terminus, represents that they parted at Siena (LB. x. 1758 E). By 1510, when Alexander reached home, he had received the Abbey of Dunfermline, and he shortly became Chancellor of Scotland and perhaps Cardinal. In 1512 he was co-founder of St. Leonard’s College at St. Andrews. Erasmus was much attached to him and mentions him frequently in his writings: see Adag. 1407 ; De conscribendis epistolis (LB. 1 363 8); Lond. xix. 15, 20, xxvii. IL LB. 866, 874, 1257; cf. LB. 958, Admon. adu. mendacium, LB. x. 1688 Bo, and the letter to Boece, 15 March 1530 (Ep. 47 introd.). John Major dedicated to him a commentary on Bk. iv of the Sentences (Paris, Phil. Pigouchet, 29 June 1509), with a preface from Montaigu, 31 Dec. 1508. See Herkless and Hannay, College of St. Leonard, 1905, and Abps. of St. An drews, i. 1907: Gairdner, Letters of Richard III and Henry VII, vol. ii; and DNB. Erasmus’ original inaccuracy over the name is noticeable ; see crit. De and cf. Epp. 597. 6 n., 855. n.
