TO THE MOST REVEREND

IN CHRIST, FATHER,

Noble lord, Lord Lorenzo Campeggio, Cardinal

Priest of the title of Saint Mary beyond the Tiber,

of the Holy Roman See, lately Legate

a latere with full authority through Germany,

and his patron always most

to be observed, Henricus

Corn. Agrippa

A woodcut decorative initial 'Q' contains a circular illustration of a figure, possibly a cherub or infant Jesus.

SINCE I KNOW THAT I AM OBLIGATED
to your sublimity (as much because of your
propensity of favor toward me, as because
of the benefits bestowed upon me, and
because of your patronage against those who
incited Caesar and the entire court of Caesar
to my ruin, and almost persuaded them)
(most reverend father) you will grant me
forgiveness if I desire to make myself
more obligated to you by more weighty names:
and again I pray you, a father most outstanding
in virtue and most erudite in literature,
that in defending Agrippa, now your old
client, you might wish to be like yourself,
and deign to receive me with the same
clemency of spirit. For the fact that I
flee to you again, necessity, which is
ignorant of shame, is my author, who by
the order of Caesar and your exhortation
is forced to vindicate myself from the crime
of impiety, and this