Jacopo Brocardo

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Jacopo Brocardo (Anglicised as James Brocard(e),

Latin: Jacobus Brocardus Pedemontanus) (c.1518 – 1594?) was an Italian Protestant convert and biblical interpreter. He regarded the year 1584 as the inauguration of a major new cycle. He prophesied that the last age would last 120 years from the birth of Martin Luther in 1483. As an apocalyptic thinker he was influenced by Martin Cellarius.[1]

Life

He was born in Pinerolo around 1518. He became a scholar and grammarian, and a follower of Giulio Camillo.[2][3]

Brocardo is not considered a very reliable witness to his own biography. He was in France in the late 1540s, and he met

Henry of Navarre.[11] Brocardo was in England around 1580 and in the Netherlands where he then studied at Leiden; it is suggested he may have followed the movements of Ségur of the period.[4][12]

Brocardo lived an itinerant life.[13] He was a member of Reformed churches in France and the Netherlands, where he was not comfortable, before moving to Bremen (1585).[4][14] He ended his life in Nuremberg, where he was from 1591. There he was welcomed by the circle of Joachim Camerarius, and knew Jacques Bongars in 1594.[4]

Works

Title page of The Revelation of St. Jhon reveled (1582) by Jacopo Brocardo

Brocardo wrote a number of

humanist works in earlier life. After a break he began publishing biblical exegesis.[4]

An interpreter of

Calvinists.[15] His extreme views, with those of William Fulke and John Napier, were picked up by Catholic polemicists.[16] Synods at La Rochelle (1581) and Vitré (1583) banned this kind of exegesis.[17] In 1581, also, the synod at Middelburg expressed problems with his views; Lambert Daneau and Martin Lydius were asked to reason with him.[18]

Brocardo discussed a threefold coming of

Christian Kabbalist.[22]

These ideas proved more acceptable to nonconforming Protestants, and a similar theory by

Heinrich Alsted.[27]

Brocardo's writings were influential also on the dialogue Gli eroici furori of Giordano Bruno.[28]

References

  • Marjorie Reeves (1976). Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future. SPCK.
    ISBN 0-281-02887-7
    .

Notes

  1. ^ Reeves, p. 142.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-271-04201-5
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  3. ISBN 978-2-7116-1172-0
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d e f (in Italian) treccani.it, Brocardo, Iacopo.
  5. ^ Reeves, p. 144.
  6. ^ Prospero Antonini (1865). Il Friuli orientale Studi (in Italian). Francesco Vallardi. p. 348. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  7. ^ Cesare Cantù (1868). Gli eretici d'Italia: discorsi storici (in Italian). Unione Tipografico-Editrice. p. 141. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  8. ISBN 978-2-600-01115-0
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  9. ^ Reeves, p. 145.
  10. ISBN 978-90-04-11030-4
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  11. ^ Reeves, p. 148.
  12. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4008-3693-2
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  13. ISBN 978-3-16-144497-5
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  14. ISBN 978-0-521-46701-8
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  15. ISBN 978-0-8264-1520-2
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  16. ISBN 978-0-521-89329-9
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  17. ISBN 978-2-8309-0878-7
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  18. ^ (in Dutch) Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 2. Derde en vierde stuk, Jakob Brocardo.
  19. ISBN 978-0-8078-1785-8
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  20. ISBN 978-0-19-536083-7
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  21. ISBN 978-0-7914-9617-6
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  22. ISBN 978-90-04-13801-8
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  23. ISBN 978-90-04-18863-1
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  24. ISBN 978-1-4008-3693-2
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  25. ISBN 978-0-19-971756-9
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  26. ISBN 978-90-04-11030-4
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  27. ISBN 978-0-7923-6787-1
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  28. ISBN 978-1-139-44815-4
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013.

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