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 72 LUTHER'S CORRESPONDENCE AND Let 5©

Erasmus's Adages^ are being reprinted in an enlarged edition, besides the Querela Pacts* The Dialogues of Lucian* the Utopia* of More* (mentioned by Richard Pace),*More's Epi- grams, the Institutiones Hebraicae'^ of Capito himself, and that work on account of which I am now writing, Erasmus's Apology against Lefdvre d'^taples,^ I mention these books that you may know what to recommend to your book-dealers who are going to set out to the Frankfort Fair. I much desire More's Utopia and Capito's Hebraic Institutions, but especially the Apology, unless it is the same • that we have had here for some time. . ..

50. LUTHER TO GEORGE SPALATIN. Enders, i. 177. (Wittenberg, middle of March, 1518.)

The dating of this letter is a puzzle. Enders dates "end of March or beginning of April," and this is defended by O. Clemen: Luthers Werke in Auswahl, 191 2, i. p. 10, because the letter assumes that the Sermon on Indulgence and Grace had already been published; as this

University. In 1520 he entered the service of Archbishop Albert of Mayence. Three years later he declared for the Reformation and went to Strassburg, at which place, in company with Bucer, he occupied a leading position for the rest of his life, taking part in the Synod of Bern in 1532, and in the Wittenberg Concord of 1536. His religious views were already advanced in 151 2, from which time on for several years he was an ardent admirer of Erasmus. Cf, Baum: Capito und Butser (i860), P. Ralkoff: Capito im Ditnstt Albrechts von Mains (1907) and Rcalencyclopadie. This letter to Luther is lost; Luther answered it, cf, infra, September 4, 1518, no. 78.

iThe Adagia, first printed in 1500, were repeatedly revised and enlarged; the edition here referred to being that of Froben, 1518. Bibliotheca Erasmiana, i. 2.

'First issued 15 16, reprinted by Froben, December, 1517; op. cit., 166.

cf the Querela Pacis of 1517.
 * Luciani Saturnalia et complures dialogi Erasmo interprete, printed at the end

^This famous work, first published at Louvain, 1516, was reprinted with More's Epigrams by Froben in March, 15 18.

^Thomas More (i477-i535)f l^ter Chancellor of Henry VIII. He was con- sistently opposed to the Reformation, taking an active part in the controversy between his king and Luther. Lives by Brigett and Hutten and by Sidney Lee in Dictionary of National Biography.

entered the diplomatic service. He was sent on a mission to Switzerland in October, 151 5. While at Constance he composed his De Fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur, Basle, Froben, October, 1517. Leaving Constance in October, 1517, he is found in England in January, 1518 {Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ii. index), on the trip very probably passing through Erfurt (Enders, loc. cit.). His reference to More's Utopia may have been at this time orally or in his De Fructu. He was employed by Henry VIII to negotiate for the imperial elec- tion in 1 5 19, and bv Wolsey in the endeavor to get the papacy In 1521 and X523. Dictionary of National Biography.
 * Pace (1482?-! 536), studied in Italy, where he met Erasmus (1507-8), and then

T Basle, Froben, 1518.

\4pologia adv. Fabrum Stapulensem, Antwerp, 15x7; Basle, 15 18.


 * It was the same; cf. supra, no. 47.

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