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Parker, Eric, M. “Neo-Platonic Sources in Reformed 16th Century Education: The Case of Girolamo Zanchi (1590),” conference paper presented at Christian Faith and the University Conference, Presbyterian College, Montreal, Canada (September 28, 2013).
Zuliana, Federico. “«Hispanica gallina peperit…». Zanchi, Bullinger, e un topos anti-erasmiano.” Bruniana & Campanelliana, 19/2 (2013): 409-19.
Merkle, Benjamin R. “Zanchi, the Calvinists, and the Antitrinitarians: Girolamo Zanchi and his De Tribus Elohim.” Conference paper presented at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (October 24, 2013).
Lindholm, Stefan. “De incarnatione Filij Dei: Jerome Zanchi (1516-1590) and the Analysis of Reformed Scholastic Christology.” Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger, Norway, 2014.
Kim, Si Hun. “Christus und Theologie: Rolle von der Christologie in der Theologie von Girolamo Zanchius (1516-1590).” Studies in Systematic Theology [조직신학연구] 23 (2015): 83-118.
Lindholm, Stefan. “Would Christ have become Incarnate had Adam not Fallen? Jerome Zanchi (1516-1590) on Christ as Mediator.” Journal of Reformed Theology 9 (2015): 19-36. [First presented as a conference paper at The Second REFORC Conference: Preparing for Death — Remembering the Dead, Oslo, Norway (May 10, 2012)].
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Merkle, Benjamin R. Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate: The Elohistae. Oxford: OUP, 2015.
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Lindholm, Stefan. Jerome Zanchi (1516-1590) and the Analysis of Reformed Scholastic Christology. Göttingen: Vanderhoek & Ruprecht, 2016.
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Leslie, Andrew. “Jerome Zanchi, the Typology of Adam and Eve, and Christological Mediation of their Creation in the Image and Likeness of God.” Conference paper presented at the Eleventh Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, Berlin, Germany (May 4, 2022).
Bull, Thom. “Variegated Typology in the Early Ecclesiology of Girolamo Zanchi.” Conference paper presented at the Eleventh Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, Berlin, Germany (May 4, 2022).
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[1] Perhaps because of its philosophical nature, this treatise was not included in the “definitive” Crespin edition of Zanchi’s complete theological works: Operum theologicorum D. Hieronymi Zanchii (Geneva: Crespin, 1617-1619), 8 tomes in 3 vols. [henceforth: Op. theol.].
[2] See Op. theol., vol. VII/1, col. 431-40.
[3] See Op. theol., vol. VIII/2: 248-57 of the 1613 edition; it is not included in the 1605 edition.
[4] See Op. theol., vol. I: 1-564; republished 1573, and then at Neustadt in 1589, two quarto impressions in 1597 and a further reprint in 1604.
[7] See Op. theol., vol. II:1-588; a second edition was published in 1590 and a quarto edition in 1598.
[8] See Op. theol., vol. VI/1:vi-xvii. After the 1579 publication, the Oratio became the preface to Zanchi’s commentary on Ephesians in 1594 (Neustadt) with two subsequent reprintings by 1613.
[9] These three treatises (actually pamphlets used for debates at the Neustadt school) were later appended to De religione Christiana fides; see Op. theol., VIII/1: 453-610.
[10] See Op. theol., vol. VII/1:1-440; a collection of the so-called “October Treatises”. The Miscellaneorum libri tres went through several subsequent editions: a second Neustadt edition in 1592 (went through three impressions that year), a quarto edition in Neustadt (1603) and an English edition by James Rime in 1605 before being published in the Op. theol.
[11] See Op. theol., vol. VIII/1:453-610; went through two octavo impressions in Neustadt in 1595, another in 1601, and then a London edition by James Rime in 1605.
[12] See Op. theol., vol. VII/1:829-938; reprinted in 1592.
[13] See Op. theol., vol. VII/1:939-60.
[14] See Op. theol., vol. III: 1-864; a quarto edition was printed in Hanau in 1597 and was reprinted in Neustadt in 1598. A subsequent Neustadt edition was published in 1602.
[15] See Op. theol., vol. VIII/1: 297-452; a second edition was published at Neustadt in 1598.
[16] See Op. theol., vol. VIII/1: 1-299; based on Zanchi’s lectures on Philippians 2. Reprinted at Neustadt in 1601.
[17] See Op. theol., vol. VI/1: 1-262 and a second edition from Neustadt in 1601.
[18] See Op. theol., vol. VI/2: 1-522; his incomplete commentary on 1 John was appended to a second Neustadt edition in 1601 published by the heirs of Willhelm Hinisius (Cf. Op. theol., vol. VI/3: 1-136). A compendium of all his New Testament commentaries were published in London by James Rime in 1605.
[19] This work was left incomplete but at the death of Frederick III Zanchi abandoned the work and never returned to it; see Op. theol., vol. IV: 1-872; reprinted in quarto format in 1603.
[20] See Op. theol., vol. VIII, col. 621-828; a synopsis of Jean Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religions compiled for Zanchi’s personal use before he fled Lucca.
[21] See Op. theol., vol. V, 1-207; reprinted in 1605 by James Rime of London.
[22] Collected and published by his heirs. The 1613 edition (also by Gamonet and Aubert) was published jointly in Heidelberg. It had improved indices and, in volumes VII and VIII, included the Miscellaneorum tomus alter, the Epistolarum Libri Duo and a number of minor works. From 1617-19 the Crespin edition (Geneva and Heidelberg) was published marking the conclusion of the editorial work.
[23] See Op. theol., vol. VIII, ?.
[24] See Op. theol., vol. VIII/2: 1-32; taken from the Strasbourg lectures on Isaiah and published jointly with Erastus’s treatise De astrologia divinatrice.
[25] See Op. theol., vol. VIII/3:1-28.
[26] This modern edition of De religione contains both the Latin edition and John Legat’s late sixteenth century English translation as well as a scholarly introduction and apparatus.
[27] Contains an abridged translation of Zanchi’s October Treatise on perseverance. Printed two additional times in 1592: once at London by Robert Robinson for Thomas Man and John Porter and once at Edinburgh by Robert Waldegrave, the royal printer. It was printed again in 1595 in London for John Legat.
[28] A translation of Zanchi’s 1585 De religione Christiana fides. The same work was retranslated in 1659 as The Whole Body of Christian Religion.
[29] Reprinted by R. F. for William Barret in London in 1617; the title page refers to this as the seventh edition. A facsimile edition was published jointly by Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Norwood, N.J.: W.J. Johns, 1975.
[30] A full translation of Zanchi’s October Treatise on perseverance.
[31] Contains an appended letter of Zanchi to Queen Elizabeth on the Anglican vestarian controversy.
[32] Another independent translation of Zanchi’s De religione christiana fides.
[33] This is Toplady’s synoptic abridgement of Zanchi’s De natura Dei. The word “Absolute” is Toplady’s own addition. There were British editions in 1769, 1779, 1807 and 1930; American editions in 1773, 1793, 1804, 1807, 1811 and 1960.
[34] A translation of a portion of the fourth volume of Zanchi’s Opera. An introductory article by Stephen J. Grabill is included (pp. 309-16) which makes some useful statements about Zanchi’s approach to natural law.
[35] This modern edition of De religione contains both the Latin edition and John Legat’s late sixteenth century English translation as well as a scholarly introduction and apparatus.
[36] A Dutch translation of De dissidio in coena Domini (Mulhouse, 1564). A second Dutch edition was published in Wesel, 1566.
[37] An Italian treatise based on a number of sermons derived from the tractationum theologicorum volumen de statu peccati et legali. It was published in octavo without colophon.
[38] A German translation of the dedicatory letter to Johann Casimir from De natura Dei.
[39] A Dutch edition of Zanchi’s October Treatise on predestination published by the Counter-Remonstrants.
[40] A excerpt from Zanchi’s comments on Philippians 2:30 translated by Todd M. Rester from In D. Pauli Apostoli Epistolas ad Philppenses, Colosenses, Thessalonicenses commentarii (Neustadt: 1595), 156-163.
[41] A German translation of his Princeton Theological Seminary dissertation above.
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