Lamentable Oration of the Distinguished doctor, Master Johannes Savageti of Constance and Basel, canon and archdeacon, formerly an advocate in the Roman Curia, delivered before Our Most Holy Lord Pope Sixtus IV regarding the turbulence of the said Church of Constance. Together with a treatise edited by him, enclosed within six legal doubts. In this [treatise], it is shown by law that the reservations and apostolic provisions made by Our Most Holy Lord for the said Church were and are valid, and that the Concordats of the German nation do not hinder them in any way. And many other notable matters are contained therein. Through which the evident justice of the Reverend Father in Christ, Lord Ludovic of Freiberg, confirmed Bishop of the said Church, and the injustice of Otto of Sunnenberg and his adherents, is declared and shown.

Since, Most Holy Father, zeal and authority over the people of God reside with Your Holiness, it is certain that it belongs to the same [office] to remove scandals, to cut down the thorns arising in the Lord's field, to settle quarrels, to grant peace to nations, and to liberate the people of the Lord. Therefore, those of us who have followed the apostolic mandates are compelled by the injury of those who have lost their way and prolong their iniquity, to refer to Your Holiness not questions, but the wounds of the Church, the injuries of Christ, the oppressions of the just, the shame and contempt of the Apostolic See, the scandals of the present, and the dangers to posterity. For we have seen horrors in the house of God—namely in the Church of Constance—scandals arising from the intrusion of Otto of Sunnenberg, who acts against the law as the elect of the same church, and [scandals arising from] the actions of his accomplices. Proudly raising their necks against Your Holiness and the Holy Apostolic See, they have presumed to impugn and exterminate its authority and to oppose all fatherly definitions. But they have also drawn a multitude of people after them, making them participants in their crime, as if they would have solace in the destruction of many. Against these, we have resisted with our manly strength until now. But since we cannot resist any longer on our own, and necessity compels us, we have come on a long journey to Your Holiness, to whom it belongs to provide [relief]. For Your Holiness knows that a sentence has been proclaimed, with the counsel and assent of the Most Reverend Lords Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, that the said Otto’s pretended election is void. And furthermore, that the provision made for the said Church of Lord Ludovic of Freiberg stands valid, which Your Holiness has newly confirmed. And through apostolic writings, [Your Holiness] ordered all subjects of the said church, both ecclesiastical and secular, under the bond of anathema and the penalties of deprivation, inhabilitation, and eternal curse, to obey the same Lord Ludovic as their true and undoubted Bishop of them and of the said church.