ANNOTATIONS

of Vergerio

A decorative initial letter C featuring floral or foliate scrollwork.WHEN, ten years ago, the Popes observed that the torch of the Gospel had been lit (albeit slightly) in Italy also, and that certain books of that kind were being circulated, which they (because of their utmost enmity with God and Christ) extremely hate, they imitated the Sorbonnists original: "Sarbonistas", referring to the theologians of the Sorbonne in Paris and those of Louvain, and composed a Catalog, in which they noted and condemned a few, barely seventy. Against this, which was the first of all to come out in Italy, a new monster, as it were, printed at Venice in the year 48, I wrote certain things in Italian and reproached not only their impiety and blasphemies, but also their singular ignorance. Wherefore, not much later, in the year 1552, they promulgated another at Florence, in which they did indeed correct some errors (because they had been warned by me), but they admitted new ones, and indeed very shameful ones. When, however, a zeal for the glory of God had spurred me to sharpen my pen against this one as well, behold, they concocted a third in the year 1554 at Milan, having corrected—