Artis Historicae Penus

Beforehand, in 1576, Perna brought out a single volume that ran to 1140 pages and featured the Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem (1566) of Jean Bodin in its title, followed by twelve other treatises.

The ars historica and its classical exempla were important pedagogical tools for the education of princes, treasured for the lessons in statecraft found in histories.

The Counter Reformation polyhistor Antonio Possevino fathered a Jesuit ars historica to replace the influence of Bodin and the heterodox authors of the Perna collection in his Bibliotheca selecta 1593 and expanded it to an Apparatus ad omnium gentium historiam 1597.

Artis Historicae Penus Octodecim scriptorum tam veterum quam recentiorum monumentis & inter eos Io.

Bodini Methodus historica duodecim eiusdem argumenti scriptorum, tam veterum quam recentiorum, commentariis adaucta; quorum elenchum praefationi subiecimus.

Artis Historicae Penus , 1579
In this copy Protestants David Chytraeus , Grynaeus , Curione & Zwinger are stricken by a Jesuit censor.