Epistola Sebast. Curionis ad amplissimum Collegium Iurisconsult. Patavinae civitatis

what is greater, when it was brought against Franc. Robertello by most noble men that he had willingly attacked Augustinus in violation of his given word, he dared to pretend that he had been forced to say this by the prayers of the most reverend Suffragan. See the incredible impudence of the man, who transfers his own fault and crime onto a holy man. For it is not plausible that a most grave man, having been provoked by no injury—indeed, one who did not even know Augustinus—would willingly ask Franc. Robertello to fabricate crimes against him and to falsely brand a most noble and holy family. But let us grant that it happened, since he favored Ioan. Michaeli, and he himself openly attempted many things against Augustinus. Acknowledge the outstanding praise for our philosopher and most eloquent orator. Therefore, he knew that this wicked, lying, and deceitful man was well able to fabricate crimes, to lie brilliantly, and to speak impudently. Indeed, the bishop of Lucensis Lucca, in which city he displayed spectacles of his own virtues, remembered that in the past, Augustinus’s father—a most famous and learned man—had been driven out by his actions, and that his guest, the excellent man Petrus Vicentinus, a most skilled physician, would have been killed by poison had he not seen to his own safety with medicines. He knew that in the same city, Christ was betrayed by him with a kiss, as if by another Judas, while he took the most holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper with those whom he was persecuting and would betray. He also remembered that some years ago he had broken his word given to the most ample Senate of the Venetorum Venetians, and recently to the Bononienses Bolognese. Let us grant this to his wickedness, I say, so that someone, incited by so many outstanding examples of his virtues, might have dared to beg him that his impure mind and conscience might not