De operatione daemonum

Otherwise, no one could be found to whom this booklet should be more rightly dedicated than to you, most distinguished man, you who have seen to it that it be shared kindly and liberally with scholars, having sought it out from the heart of Greece at great expense, along with many other monuments of the ancients. Some will praise the constant spirit of your excellent father, formerly the president in the supreme senate of Paris, and his role in rejecting those pestiferous edicts which were being forced upon the Senate by the impudence of certain people to establish the heresy of the Hugnostici Huguenots throughout Gaul (he, not the least among men of blessed memory, exclaimed: "We cannot, we will not, we ought not"); they will also praise your brother, the heir of his father's virtue no less than his most illustrious office. As for me, I shall praise as honorably as I can—passing over your beneficence toward the poor, your humanity toward all, and your fervent zeal for the Catholic religion—that constant and vehement study...