ANASTASIUS [ANASTASE GERMON]

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• ANASTASIUS [ANASTASE GERMON] GERMONIUS (1551-1627)

GERMONIUS (1551-1627)  , canon lawyer, diplomatist and archbishop of Tarantaise, belonged to the family of the marquises of Ceve, in Piedmont, where he was born . As archdeacon at Turin he was a member of the commission appointed by Pope Clement VIII. to edit the Liber septimus decretalium; and he also wrote Paratitla on the five books of the Decretals of Gregory IX . He represented the duke of Savoy at the court of Rome under Clement VIII. and Paul V., and was ambassador to Spain under Kings Philip III. and IV . He died on the 4th of August 1627 . Germonius is best known for his treatise on ambassadors, De legatis principum et populorum libri tees (Rome, 1627) . The book is diffuse, pedantic and some-what heavy in style, but valuable historically as written by a theorist who was also an expert man of affairs .