Postremvs Catalogvs Haereticorum Romæ conflatus, 1559

end of the world. What a most putrid and horrible blasphemy and heresy, created after the birth of man. When I was about to depart from Italy, I attacked this in an Italian writing, to which I gave the title: Discursus super libello A Discourse on the little book, entitled Flosculi Sancti Francisci Little Flowers of Saint Francis. I did not, however, inscribe my name, fearing nothing less than that they would defend those things, for I had persuaded myself that since the Evangelical sun had risen, which had awakened many, they would immediately and skillfully see to it that such wickedness was suppressed. But behold, in three perpetual catalogs, as in this last one also, they have most impudently and wickedly condemned my writing and accusation as Lutheran and heretical. Everyone sees that this is the same as if they had shouted: "Since you dare to deny that the things which our Roman Church believes and commands are true, so that others might also believe in the Franciscan stigmata, we pronounce your book, in which you wrote about these things, heretical once, twice, three times, and four times." And will there still be anyone who can persuade himself that these shaven and anointed men a derogatory reference to the tonsured and ordained clergy have even the slightest care for the glory of God? Or that they seriously desire the Church to be cleared of abuses and errors? Who truly