The Life of Pope Leo X in Four Books

as the master of a beneficial nature, so much as they provide for a teacher and censor through the learned subtlety of your genius. But these things, great and wonderful as they may be in other senators, are smaller and narrower in you than that noble vigor of your military spirit, with which you recently met Solyman in Pannonia original: "in Pannonia Solymano", who was dragging the wealth and forces of the whole East, while you were armed. Since, with the decree of a firm spirit, as brave as it was pious, you had devoted yourself to the certain hope of unusual praise for the salvation of the Christian name. From this wonderful desire of your burning genius, since you were watched by the eyes of the bravest nations of all Europe while you were preparing for a richer victory with a consecrated army, you preferred that fame of your name, so that by a certain most favorable fate you seem to have been produced into the light of this restored age for the most ample honor of the sacred order, and for the solid happiness of your uncle Clemens, under whose

->protection all of Italy now rests, having found peace through his divine counsel.->
->FAREWELL.->

ANGELUS CONSTANTIUS
OF NAPLES

Alexander wept when he saw the tomb of Achilles,
And said, alas, for the too fortunate ashes,
Whose sacred battles, performed by a victorious hand,
Are testified to by the poems of the Maeonian Homeric poet;
If he were now to breathe the vital air,
He would say, green with huge envy:
Hail, O happy tomb of Leo the Tenth,
Whom Iovius sings of with such eloquent lips.