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Pedro Álvares Cabral de Gouveia: Portuguese navigator and explorer, 1467-1520; landed in Rio on Jan 1; accompanied by at least one on Jew on Feb 1
Giulio Romolo Caccini (born October 8 1551; died December 10 1618): his “Euridice” premièred on Dec 5 – bio and links to works here (apparently the opera was really by Jacopo Peri, “with additional music by Giulio Caccini”). It is regarded as the earliest surviving opera – but don’t go saying that where Hildegard of Bingen can hear you.
Quintus Servilius Caepio the Elder: green-lighted on Jan 3
Benedetto Caetani (Pope Boniface VIII) at war-of-words with Philip IV (“the Fair”) of France on Dec 5; read his “Ausculta Fili” here, his “Unam Sanctum” here; read about his arrest by Philip here, and with it an explanation both of why the Popes spent much of the next century in Avignon, not Rome, and why the Cathars were destroyed [clearly Philip should be on the GER page, not here!]
John Milton Cage Jr: shall I skip him? No, simply do my piece in silence as an act of homage to him. Transposed as Gedb on Oct 27
Chaim Vital Calabrese (Hayyim ben Joseph Vital in Hebrew): a disciple of Isaac Luria on Aug 5; full list of his Luria texts here; more on the man here
John Calvin (Jehan Cauvin on his birth certificate, 10 July 1509): French-born but mostly Geneva-based, he published “Institutes of the Christian Religion” there in 1536, three years after leaving Catholicism for Lutheranism, but then having disagreements. His followers today have acronymed his beliefs TULIP, which stand for “Total Depravity”, “Unconditional Election”, “Limited Atonement”, “Irresistible Grace”, and “Perseverance of the Saints”, none of which is remotely meaningful to me, nor interesting enough to want to find out more. His followers also regard themselves as Puritans, which seems to me another extremely good reason for not wanting to know more, and why I am leaving Calvin on the Merely Mentioned page, and refusing him entry to the world of the poetikos on the main Index. Calvin’s precise role in the execution of Servetus is not clear (see Oct 26), but it was he who established “fear-of-lifeism” in Geneva, with an extensive catalogue of austere rules that included a ban on swearing, gambling, and fornication, and on dancing, even at weddings, while unexcused absence from worship was penalised. The same Totalitarianism as today’s “Woke” and “Cancel”, and in truth he should really be placed on the GER page. See Jan 1; further mentions on Jan 11, May 4, Nov 18 and Dec 16 – and there will be at least one more from the W-B women (Marie Dentière, or correctly d’Ennetières) when I finish writing it, because he was a misogynist (should that be a Cauvinist?) par excellence
Giovanni Domenico Campanella when he was baptised, not clear why he became Tommaso, but maybe it was because he had doubts about becoming a friar at all, and took that name for that reason when he finally oblated: start finding out here; imagined a rather more habitable “City of the Sun” than did Le Corbusier on Oct 6
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (born September 7 1836; died April 22 1908): Liberal PM of England on Dec 5: bio here
Antonio Canova (1757 – 1822): intimate of Pierre Jean David d’Angers on Jan 5, “the leading figure of the Neoclassical style, inspired by the sculptures of Ancient Greece and Rome” according to the website of the V&A, and they should know: click here
Pons de Capdoill: one of the Troubadours who came under the matronage of Maria de Ventadorn on Jan 13
Peter Carey: out-prized Bruce Chatwin on Feb 14
Guiraut de Calanson: another of the Troubadours who came under the matronage of Maria de Ventadorn on Jan 13
Julian Carlton: set fire to Taliesin on Aug 15
Lady Evelyn Carnarvon: did she or didn’t she, with Howard Carter, on June 24?
Elliott Cook Carter Jr: amongst Nadia Boulanger’s distinguished list of students on Aug 21: his website here
Danielle Casanova - among the committed Marxists on June 28, but fully encountered by Max Sebald in this interview, as well as in his novel “Vertigo”; and he did so on June 27, so it made it into my own “A Journey In Time”. Interesting lady, Mlle Casanova
Méric
Causaubon (14 August 14 1599 ; died July 14 1671), son of Isaac, and the other possible source for George Eliot, on Feb 8 ; noted
especially for his editions of Marcus Aurelius
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926): another of Paul Durand-Ruel’s great discoveries on Feb 5 - try here
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (not to be confused with Marcus Aurelius) (c485-c585): described the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug 24
Dio Cassius, which is actually a name reversal for his nom de plume of Lucius Cassius Dio (circa 165-c235): heard the continuing eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug 24 - here and mostly here
Etienne du Castel: husband of Christine de Pizan on Jan 13
Isabella de Castilla and Léon (born April 22 1451; died November 26 1504): among the Supra Idesses on April 17, though really she and her husband should be on the GER page, for kicking out the Moslems, and then for kicking out the Jews. This link has a portrait of her which looks an aged version of the one of her daughter on Dec 16
Orobio de Castro: one of the Woke and Cancel Brigade who excommunicated Spinoza on Feb 21
Georges Paul Alphonse Emilien Caussade (born November 20 1873; died August 5 1936): teaching Lili Boulanger composition on Aug 21: bio here
Guido Cavalcante (circa 1255-August 27 1300): Dante’s “first friend”, and the founding poet of the “Dolce Stil Novo”, can be found on June 24 – bio here
Henry Cavendish (born October 10 1731; died February 24 1810): recommended James Smithson for the Royal Society on Aug 10
Richard Cavendish wrote a piece about Blondin for “History Today” on June 30
Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck (Morrell was her married name) (born June 16 1873; died April 21 1938): taking photos on Nov 22 [speaking of photos, I have one of her pub in Bloomsbury in my 2024 diary and must upload it as an illustration)
Robert Cecil, (1563-1612), 1st Earl of Salisbury: his osteoporosis satirised by Shakespeare as Richard III on June 24 and Nov 5 - bio here
and
William Cecil: Lord Burghley (1520-1598): his father, also Nov 5, and bio here
Andrew Mark Chapman: imagined murdering John Lennon on Oct 9 (but actually did it on December 8); probably because he was just a jealous guy
Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956): beautifully handled by Gustav Mahler on July 7
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet: April 27 and May 30
Geoffrey Chaucer: Feb 23, also March 8 and Dec 29
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898): not one of the well-remembereds among Paul Durand-Ruel’s discoveries, but painting anyway on Feb 5 - bio here
The De Chiaras are named among the last friends of D.H. Lawrence on March 2, but I have as yet been unsuccessful in finding out any more about them. No, update, a mention of Anna di Chiara here, and then I found this, but can’t access it
Lin Yih-Chih: gets a very short entry on Jan 14
Tzu-Hsi, written by ordinary folk as Ci-Xi, written by official archivists as “The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi of the Great Qing Empire” (born November 29 1835; died November 15 1908): a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who, as Empress dowager of the Qing dynasty, ruled China singlehanded for half a century - bio here; listed among the Supra Idesses on April 17
Martin Chuzzlewit set off for America on January 3rd 1842, though he is in the blog on June 22, and apparently told everyone he met there that his real name was Charles Dickens
Thomas James (“Tom”) Clarke, or Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh in Eirish (born March 11 1858; died May 3 1916): Cabinet member in the first free Eirish “provisional” government, and one of the fourteen executed by the British for being so, on April 24 and the Eirish page
Virginia Clemm: Edgar Allan Poe’s 13 year old cousin-bride on May 16
George Timothy Clooney: playing the part of George Timothy Clooney on Aug 8
Carolus Clusius, a sixteenth-century botanist from the Southern Netherlands who the French knew as Charles de l’Ecluse: gave the Pope Europe’s first potato on July 28 (click here); he was also, apparently, responsible for bringing the tulip to Europe (click here)
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (born July 5 1889; died October 11 1963): painting Max Jacob on August 19 - French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and ... websites for his art and websites for his poetry; former here, latter here. [my portrait of him is waiting to be uploaded to the Art Gallery]
Gonçalo Coelho came from a prominent family in northern Portugal; he commanded two expeditions, of which this one was the first, in 1501–02; the second, two years later, explored much more thoroughly the full coast-length of Brazil. See Jan 1
William Coles & William Forshaw took the photograph of Gerald Manley Hopkins on July 28, though their shop on Alfred Street did their names the other way around – click here for their tale, and also a nice piece of Lewis Carroll marginalia.
Otto (Oddone) Colonna (Pope Martin V): denounced anti-Jewish preaching and forbad the forced baptism of pre-B’nei Mitzvah age Jewish children on July 14. May God come into existence so that he can bless you for doing this.
Marcellinus Comes (born circa 480; died circa 540), the latter not his surname, which is unknown, and pronounced as two syllables, “Com-ès” - it means “Count” in Latin and was a title he received after working for many years in the office of future Emperor Justinian when uncle Justin was on the throne; bio here . And on the blog on Aug 24 because he witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
James Connolly, or Séamas Ó Conghaile in Eirish (born June 5 1868; died May 12 1916): formed the first free Eirish “provisional” government on April 24 and the Eirish page
Charlotte Corday [is among the Napoleonic Age women in Woman-Blindness - so she will need to move to the Index] - July 5
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875): rejected by the salon, taken up by Durand-Ruel, on Feb 5 - bio here
Uriel da Costa (Adam Romes was his pen-name): This is how it works: a name comes up in a piece I am researching, but a mere passing mention, so set aside to return to later on. Eventually I do, and in the process another name comes up, another passing mention, another amber light left waiting to turn green. So I wrote about Rabbi Aboab on Feb 1, which led to his mentor Rabbi Uzziel... and put in the Uzziel piece... (Uzziel is on Feb 1 but also listed in more detail below on this page)... and that in turn called up another name which, upon investigation, took me back to Aboab from another direction: Uriel da Costa
Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1863-1937): all the websites want to talk about is the Olympic Games, but it is his involvement with Toynbee Hall that is on June 5
François Couperin (born November 10 1668; died September 11 1733): his Concert Pieces for Cello and Piano performed on Nov 13
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): yet another of Durand-Ruel’s discoveries on Feb 5; another of the Etretat crowd on Oct 6 - bio here and here
William Courtenay (born circa 1342; died July 31 1396): Bishop of London at the time of his mention, Archbishop of Canterbury later on, but, probably more significantly, a great-grandson of King Edward I; summoned John Wycliffe on May 4, but got rather more than he had bargained for
Thomas Cromwell (circa 1485 - 28 July 1540): same website as Wolsey: the sad tale of Infanta Catalina de Aragón y Castilla is told on Dec 16
Harry Lillis (“Bing”) Crosby: maybe, on Sept 17
Paul Christopher Richard Crossley: four Tippett piano sonatas on March 19 - his own website here
“The Táin Bó Cuailnge", “The Cattle Raid of Cooley”, the story of Cú Chulainn (pronounced Koo Hullen), the Hound of Ulster, and of how he stood his ground, along with his charioteer Lao, against the great host of Ailill and Maeve, on June 24: full text here; much more on Cú Chulainn here
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch: playing Guildernstern on Sept 2 (apparently he has also played Rosencrantz – click here)
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