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 occupied by the beggar tyrants^ Farewell again, dearest Philip.

259. CONRAD MUTIAN TO LANG AT ERFURT. Krause, 649. (Gotha), May 15, 152a

. . . Zasius cxtolls our Luther to the skies. The illustrious Pirckheimer has written of him, what I have just read to my dear friend Adam CrafFt,* as follows : "All ages will remem- ber that the Wittenbergers were the first to see the truth, the first to open their eyes after so many centuries, and to begin to separate the degenerate from the Christian philosophy. And who among those wise men is so eminent a preacher of Christ as Luther?" . ..

26a ALVISE GRADENIGO TO THE SIGNORY OF VENICE. Sanuto, xxxviii. 315, tergo. Italian. Brown, iii. 51. English.

Rome, May 22, 1520. Gradenigo was Venetian Ambassador at Rome 1520-3.

A consistory has been held on the affair of Martin Luther in Germany and nothing determined. The matter was post- poned in order not to render the scandal greater by showing that importance was attached to his errors.

a6i. SILVESTER DE GIGLI, BISHOP OF WORCESTER, TO

WOLSEY.

Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., ed. J. S. Brewer, London, 1867, iii., no. 847. (English condensed translation of Latin original.)

Rome, May 28, 1520.

Gigli (1463- April 18, 1521), of Lucca, succeeded his uncle as Bishop of Worcester and English agent at Rome in 1498. From 1504-12 he was on a mission to England, when he returned as Ambassador to the Pope. Dictionary of National Biography.

Some months ago the works of Friar Martin arrived. Much of their contents is disapproved of by great theologians, by reason of the scandals to which they might give rise, and

■Text irvyuripawot for TrTUXoripawoit Erumns' favorite name for the mendi- cant orders.

sKraft or Crato of Fulda (i 493- 1558), an admirer of Eratmos, later a strong Latheran, after 1527 professor at Marburg. Enders, vi. 21. This letter of Pirck- keimer is not in Goldast.

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