Life
1564-1614; b. Dublin; Jesuit, ed. at Oxford; converted to Catholicism
and entered Jesuit novitiate at Tournai, c.1596; studied at Louvain and
Padua; rector of Irish College at Salamanca; d. Madrid; works include
Introduction to the Art of Music (1584) and Janua Linguarum
(1611), a system for teaching languages. DNB
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Criticism
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (IAP 1976;
1984).
Notes
Shorter DNB does not attest that Bathe
was Irish.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)