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Study and translation of the religious and philosophical work by this Scottish-born, France-based Renaissance humanist and educator. The Commentatio quaedam theologica of Florentius Volusenus (c.1504-c.1557) is a religious and philosophical work of the Renaissance, cast in the form of rhetorical aphorisms. Volusenus was an admirer of Erasmus, tutored the son of Cardinal Wolsey, and was close to the circles around Sir Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell. In Paris he received patronage from prominent humanist ecclesiastics, as also from bishop Jacopo Sadoleto at Carpentras. A colleague at Lyon of the poet Barthelemy Aneau, he taught Sebastian Castellio, who later broke with Calvin. Volusenus, an eirenic Catholic, favoured Church reform before the Reformation became irreversible.

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Alasdair A. MacDonald is emeritus Professor of English, University of Groningen, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Scottish and English literature and culture. J. Craig McDonald is emeritus Professor of English at King University, Tennessee. He has published on Older Scots texts by Robert Henryson and John Ireland and is presently editing the Meroure of Wyssdome and Volusenus's commentaries. Betty I. Knott was Senior Lecturer in Comparative Philology, and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow. She has translated the Imitation of Christ, the Emblemata of Alciato, and several works of Erasmus, and is working on ecclesiastical texts in early medieval Scotland.

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