The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario: Or, a History of the Italian Reformers in the Sixteenth Century Illustrated by Original Letters and Unedited Documents
The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario: Or, a History of the Italian Reformers in the Sixteenth Century Illustrated by Original Letters and Unedited Documents
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...of writing. " I call my slender means, Conscript Fathers, golden poverty, and in it I truly rejoice. On no account would I exchange it for the splendour and magnificence of these men. My patrimony is small, but in the secret recesses of my soul, conscience is pure, clear, and bright; the furies do not agitate ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...of writing. " I call my slender means, Conscript Fathers, golden poverty, and in it I truly rejoice. On no account would I exchange it for the splendour and magnificence of these men. My patrimony is small, but in the secret recesses of my soul, conscience is pure, clear, and bright; the furies do not agitate it by day, nor alarm it with burning torches at night. " Let them bo crowned with diadems and clothed in purple, and sit enthroned in chairs with carpets spread under their feet. I with my three-legged stool will retire into my library, and feel content with a woollen robe to protect me from the cold, a handkerchief to wipe my brow, and a couch on which to repose. "Thou, 0 adorable Christ! the author, preserver, and liberal dispenser of thine own gifts, hast granted me to despise these things, and sufficient firmness of mind to speak not according to my own sense or will, but according to truth. Do thou please to grant me piety, modesty, and temperance, and to add also those things which I know to be agreeable to thee and to thy followers. " I have no friendship cither with the Spaniards, the French, or the Germans. The truth I believe to be the same for all. Do you praise, says Otto, all the acts of the Germans? This is a question in your own style; it shall however be answered. I approve some things and disapprove others. To say nothing of other points, I praise the Germans for having in our own times adorned Latin literature with many things formerly buried in barbarism, and with not a few which were once enveloped in miserable obscurity of language. They have thrown light on many dark and thorny points, and I think we ought to be obliged to the Germans for their d1ligence in this respect. The study of divinity lay hid in the cells of...
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