Animorum, describing the character and manners of the European nations, appeared in 1614. He appears to have been on better terms with the Church and notably with Robert Bellarmine, for in 1617 he issued, from a press at Rome, a Paraenesis ad Sectarios, an attack on the position of Protestantism. Later editions were published in Cologne. The literary effort of his closing years was his best-known work the Argenis, a political romance, resembling in certain respects the Arcadia of Philip Sidney, and the Utopia of Thomas More. The book was completed about a fortnight before his death, which has been said to have been hastened by poison. Richard Crashaw's poem, "Description of a Religious House and Condition of Life", beginning, "No roofs of gold o'er riotous tables shining,/Whole days and suns devour'd with endless dining;" was translated "Out of Barclay." References Attribution Further reading 1582 births 1621 deaths People from Pont-à-Mousson 17th-century Latin-language writers 17th-century Scottish writers 17th-century Scottish novelists New Latin-language poets Roman Catholic writers Scottish literary critics Scottish poets Scottish satirists Scottish Roman Catholics Scottish Catholic poets Scottish Roman Catholic writers Members of the Lincean Academy