Italian translation of Jérôme de Hangest’s (d. 1538) De Academiis in Lutherum (Paris, 1532).

Apparently responding to Luther’s attacks on the theology faculty of Paris after it condemned him (April 1521), Hangest’s pamphlet systematically (though silently) confutes Cornelius Agrippa’s De vanitate scientiarum (Antwerp 1530, Paris and Cologne 1531) and reacts against the institution of the Collège Royal (1530), in which philologists not controlled by the theology faculty lectured on the Hebrew and Greek text of the Bible. The work is a defense of university theological training, based on philosophy and dialectics, against the criticism of the humanists. Discussing Agrippa’s polemical definition of scholasticism, Hangest proposes his own definition, which was to enjoy wide popularity in the following centuries. The introduction (11-81) describes the circumstances of the work’s composition and briefly outlines the figure of Hangest, a pupil of Tartaretus and the author of both philosophical and theological works.