词汇 | bellarmine |
词源 | bellarmine. Bellarmine is a historical term referring to a glazed stone beer jug designed to ridicule Italian cardinal Ro- berto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino (1542–1621). Cardinal Bellarmine, as he is better known, distinguished himself as a Jesuit scholar and was a friend of Galileo, but is usually remem- bered for his persecution of Protestants in Flanders. The Flem- ish later retaliated by caricaturing him with the large bellarm- ine, which was designed as a burlesque likeness, having a huge belly and a narrow neck. The controversial cardinal was canon- ized in 1930. |
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