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Gabriel Naudé
Gabriel Naudé (2 February 1600 – 10 July 1653) was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. An influential work on library science was the 1627 book "Advice on Establishing a Library". Naudé was later able to put into practice all the ideas he put forth in "Advice", when he was given the opportunity to build and maintain the library of Cardinal Jules Mazarin.
Naudé is a
Theophrastus redivivus
Theophrastus redivivus (meaning "The revived Theophrastus") is an anonymous Latin-language book published on an unknown date sometime between 1600 and 1700. The book has been described as "a compendium of old arguments against religion and belief in God" and "an anthology of free thought."
The work comprises materialist and skeptical treatises from classical sources as Pietro Pomponazzi, Lucilio Vanini, Michel de Montaigne, Machiavelli, Pierre Charron, and Gabriel Naudé. According to "Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-