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Francis Coster, S.J. (1532-1619) was received into the society by Ignatius who was impressed by Francis' wit and sense of humor. Francis taught astronomy and Sacred Scripture and was one of the great Jesuit Latin poets. He was delegate to three General Congregations, served as rector three times, twice as provincial of Belgium and once as provincial of the Rhine province. Once he had been insulted by Lucas Osiander, one of Martin Luther's followers, in an insipid anagram. One of his community, a mathematician-poet, Charles Malapert, answered the insult in an anagram on Osiander's name. The letters in the two men's names are rearranged to spell out the verses. Osiander's anagram reads: "You certainly are an African ass; (sic! that's sure.)". Malapert's answer reads: "You jackass, you can't graze here; go back to your thistles". Anagrams were immensely popular in the seventeenth century. Coster himself had written an essay to answer Osiander, and complained in the dedicatory letter that the eight theses that Osiander was attacking had been published twenty years before and that they were objectionable to Calvinists, but not to Lutherans. The full exchange is found in Jesuit Latin Poets by J. J. Mertz and J. P. Murphy. (Ban, Ham, JLx, JLP, Som)
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