Postremvs Catalogvs Haereticorum Romæ conflatus, 1559

I pray again that you forgive the praises of a most vile vice published at that time in his own name in poems, or at least then for the first time beginning to be known and seen, in which the holy man did not shrink from affirming once and again that it was a divine work and a divine art, and that he himself took pleasure in it in a wonderful way, indeed in it alone. This most impure and satanic Archbishop, therefore, I have frequently attacked with all my might in my writings, especially the Italian ones, and I have reproached the Popes who would use the works of such monsters in their legations, and indeed would want to foist them upon the Churches, especially in these difficult times, as judges of heavenly doctrine in a Council. Wherefore now, Paul IV, overcome by my importunity (as I judge), has at last condemned the author of that most execrable poem. But what? He inserted such a monster in that very Catalog in which the champions of the doctrine of the children of God are listed: for the Antichrist feels that that horrible and abominable wickedness must be held in the same place and number as the heavenly doctrine which we profess. But how many could have understood that this was the subject if they had only read those little words: "The poems of Giovanni Casa"? But let us proceed now.