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 words: "I think truly that I have sung highly."*. . . This shows all the wickedness that goes on at Rome. It can't stand. There must be a reformation. Charles* must b^n it. ..

318. JEROME ALEANDER TO POPE LEO X. AT ROME. Deutsche Reichstagsakten, ii. 454.

(Aix-la-Chapelle, October 23, 1520.)

Jerome Aleander (1480-1542) met Erasmus at Venice 1508, after which he taught at Paris till 1513. After serving the bishops of Paris and Liege, he returned to Italy in 15 16 and was made Papal Librarian in 1 5 19. July, 152a the Pope sent him as legate to Charles V. to act against Luther, where he conducted himself with conspicuous success. Smith, op. cit., 98-104. In 1538 he was also sent as legate to Germany. His Journal published by Omont 1895; several works on him by J. Paquier, including his Letters, 1909. Realencyclopddie and Allen, i. 502.

I kiss your blessed feet, most holy Lord. May God Al- mighty keep your Holiness for us long and happily.

That your Holiness may know all things that were done here in order in the Lutheran affair, the Emperor, while we were at Antwerp, signed an edict commanding that all Lutheran and other seditious books, wherever found in his dominions, should be burned publicly with fire. . ..

We have not been able to do anything against Luther's person, nor shall we be able until we can prove to the Em- peror and other princes that the bull entrusted to Eck has been published in Germany and the sixty days allowed by the bull have elapsed. I have no doubt that Eck has already done what he was commanded, but I have no certain news of it yet, which I attribute to the long distance.

The Emperor* entered this town yesterday.

319. ALEANDER TO POPE LEO X. AT ROME. Reichtagsakten, ii. 457. (Aix-la-Chapelle, October 25, 1520.)

. . . The other nuncio* and myself were received to-day by the Archbishop of Mayence. . . and I noted that he

iLong Terbal quotation from the book, to the end: "Dear Rome, what I think."

sCharlea V. C/. Smith, pSfiF., 387^-

sCharlea was crowned at Aix, October 23.

^Marino Caracciolo of Naples (1469- January a8. 1538), had been sent to Rome by Maximilian Sforza to represent him at the LAteran Council, 151 5. He was made protonotary by Leo X., and in 1518 was appointed papal nuncio to the

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