The Identity of ‘Anthony Rivers’
The Identity of ‘Anthony Rivers’
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“安东尼·里弗斯”的身份
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2002
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J. Finnis
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Patrick Martin;J. Finnis
自1877年亨利·福利（Henry Foley）发表了一组信件的大量摘录以来，这些信件据称是1601年1月至1603年4月期间从伦敦写给威尼斯记者的，“安东尼·里弗斯·s.j.”，“亨利·加内特·s.j.神父的社团”，历史学家发现这些信件是有关伊丽莎白女王衰落时期的宝贵证据，政府秘密参与天主教神职人员的上诉人争议（1597-1602），《哈姆雷特》中提到的“一英寸厚”的油漆，《第十二夜》可能的起源环境，以及其他一些事情。但是从来没有发现过耶稣会的安东尼·里弗斯，耶稣会的历史学家对写信人的身份进行了推测：菲利普·卡拉曼一度以为他是安东尼·霍斯金斯神父，而弗朗西斯·爱德华兹最近为亨利·弗洛伊德神父辩护。但霍斯金斯直到1603年才被送到英国，而弗洛伊德在狱中的大部分时间里，这些信件以每周的节奏，以许多页的第一手资料，在法院和议会中观察到的事件，有时（如果不是总是）以三个几乎相同的版本同时发送给三个不同的收件人。
Since Henry Foley in 1877 published extensive extracts from a set of letters purporting to have been written from London to correspondents in Venice, between January 1601 and April 1603, ‘by Anthony Rivers S.J.’, a ‘socius of Fr. Henry Garnet S.J.’, historians have found these letters valuable evidence concerning Queen Elizabeth’s declining days, the government’s secret involvement in the Appellant controversy within the Catholic priesthood (1597–1602), the ‘inch thick’ paint reference in Hamlet, the possible originating circumstances of Twelfth Night, and other matters. But no Jesuit Anthony Rivers has ever been found, and Jesuit historians have speculated about the letter-writer’s identity: Philip Caraman at one time took him to be Fr. Anthony Hoskins S.J., and Francis Edwards recently argued for Fr. Henry Floyd S.J. But Hoskins was not sent to England until 1603, and Floyd was in prison for much of the time when the letters were retailing, in a weekly rhythm, many pages of first-hand observations of events in the Court and Council, sometimes if not always in three near-identical versions dispatched simultaneously to three separate addressees.