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 339. BASIL AMERBACH TO BONIFACE AMERBACH AT

AVIGNON.

Burcldiardt-Biedennaim, 143. Basle, November 22, 1520.

... I have nothing to write of Luther except that Pope Leo is trying to ruin him, and for that reason keeps sending legates to make Charles hostile to him. Charles has not yet determined what to do. A certain virulent and biting lam- poon/ which I will send by the next messenger when I have a chance, has come out against Aleander, the learned Greek scholar who is the Pope's legate.

340. ULRICH VON HUTTEN TO MARTIN BUCER. Booking, i. 427. Ebernburg, November 25, 1520.

. . . Luther* is burned at Cologne also. Therefore the holy Muse of truth-speaking Luther will go into the flames and die. ... I hear that all orders of men greatly grieved at the act and only a few priests were pleased with it. I hear that some of the nobles favor Luther so strongly that Sick- ingen thinks that there would have been an extremely danger- ous rebellion at Cologne if only Frederic of Saxony had been there, for he left a short time ago. We are waiting to see what will happen at Mayence, for our adversaries are trying something there. I hear that Luther published something* or other to-day excommunicating and anathematizing Leo X.

��341. WILUAM DE CROY, SEIGNEUR DE CHIfiVRES. AND HENRY OF NASSAU TO ELECTOR FREDERIC OF SAXONY.

Reichstagsakten, ii. 466, note. Oppenheim, November 27, iS2a

Soon after leaving Cologne Frederic had written to Chievres and Nassau a letter which has been lost. The following is the answer. Croy (1485-May 27, 1521), was made Stadtholder of the Nether-

^Several attacks came out on Aleander at this time, of which perhaps the most likely in this instance is the Acta Academiae Lovaniensis, perhaps by the pen of Erasmus, reprinted in Luther s Werke (Erlangen), Opera latina varii argumenti, vr. 308-14. The proof of the authorship, P. Kalkoff: Die Vermitt- lungspolitik des Erasmus, etc., p. ^jff. The similarity of the style to that of Eras- mus was early noticed. Vadianische Brief sammlung, ii. 346. Cf. further, P. KalkofiF: Anfange der Gegenref. in den NiederlSnden, ii. 35ff, and the article by the same scholar in Zwinglis Werke, vii. 409. Adversus execrdbilem Antichristi buUam. Weimar, ri. 595.
 * 7. e., his works. Not. 12.

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