Postremvs Catalogvs Haereticorum Romæ conflatus, 1559

hardly anything else in this matter was done more foolishly by the Papists, although they have done many things very impudently. Wherefore, since they are now ashamed of their own legation and the Bull, they have condemned my Letter, which made Italy better informed about both, and have devoted it to curses, so that no one might dare to read it anymore. Therefore, no one will now be ignorant of why they have inserted the copy of my letter dated 4 January 1550 into the catalog. But since I see them fearing that that inept and futile legation might be divulged more and more throughout Italy, come now, I will not be lacking in my duty, and I do not doubt that I, even alone, can expose the matter more than they, being so many, can cover it up and conceal it.

2. Giovanni Casa, Archbishop of Benevento, Legate of Pope Paul III throughout the entire Venetian domain, wrote at his command the first Catalog of which I spoke. But he, since he was a not inelegant Poet, had also published certain Italian verses, printed at Venice by the printer Traiano Navio, in which he celebrated the praises (I pray, good pious reader, take it well, although you will hear something that will justly offend your ears) he celebrated, I say (I recite it unwillingly