Editing Gabriel Naudé (section)

==Works==

Including works edited by him, a list of ninety-two pieces is given in the ''Naudaeana''. The principal ones are:

*''Le Marfore, ou discours contre les libelles'' (Paris, 1620), very rare, reprinted 1868;
*''Instruction à la France sur la vérité de l'histoire des Frères de la Roze-Croix'' (1623, 1624), displaying their impostures;
*''Apologie pour tous les grands personages faussement soupçonnez de magie'' (1625, 1653, 1669, 1712), [[Pythagoras]], [[Socrates]], [[Thomas Aquinas]] Jerome Cardan and [[Solomon]] are among those defended;
*''Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque'' (1627, 1644, 1676; translated by [[John Evelyn]], 1661), full of sound and liberal views on librarianship and considered as a founding stone of [[library science]];
*''Addition à l'histoire de [[Louis XI of France|Louys XI]]'' (1630), this includes an account of the origin of [[printing]];
*''Bibliographia politica'' (Venice, 1633, etc.; in French, 1642);
*''De studio liberali syntagma'' (1632, 1654), a practical treatise found in most collections of directions for studies;
*''De studio militari syntagma'' (1637), esteemed in its day;
*''Considérations politiques sur les coups d'état'' (1639).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} A disciple of [[Machiavelli]], he considered that politics must be rendered "autonomous from morality, sovereign in relation to religion"<ref>French : « ''abolir toute idée de droits autres que ceux du chef » et rendre « la politique autonome par rapport à la morale, souveraine par rapport à la religion ».''</ref>

A ''Bibliotheca Pontificia'' was completed and seen into print by [[Ludovicus a S. Carolo|Louis Jacob]].<ref>[[Wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Ludovicus a S. Carolo]]</ref>