Epistola Sebast. Curionis ad amplissimum Collegium Iurisconsult. Patavinae civitatis

many in the past, both most wise and most holy men, who were circumvented, and Christ himself as well. To whom, then, shall I turn? Whom shall I implore? Or whom shall I call upon? Where emissaries are found to be slanderers, who wish to interpret not words, but the sense of the mind. By the immortal God, what has been omitted by these men? First, they threw his age at him, then his fatherland, soon his parents. After all these things were brilliantly rejected by our divine virtue, they fled to "heresy" as to the safest port. In this crime, when impious and wicked men were pursuing us and our name, Augustino always prayed to God the All-Powerful and Best that, if he had ever swerved from the true and ancient religion and Christian piety, he should sustain the eternal punishment he had willingly taken upon himself. But if he had always lived piously, and worked for the preservation of piety and religion, that the hatred which wicked and audacious men held against him might be turned back upon them. That he is a man of this spirit, you remember by the judgment of the immortal God, the testimony of the most reverend inquisitor, the consent of all, and by the divine and your own immortal benefit. And although his adversaries stirred up heaven and the seas to find something against him, and found nothing, nevertheless, not content with this, they attempted to bring it about before the most clear man Aloysius Mozenighius, a most wise praetor, that he should be thrown into the most foul prison without a hearing. This he, gifted with prudence as he is, did not allow in the least. What of the fact that, to overthrow him, they dared to brand the most noble Zabarella family and the most holy man, the Archpriest, with this most foul and most hated mark of heresy, because they supported Augustino in their home, because they favored him, because they protected him? And