command to his University not to condemn my writings. Dr. Martin Reinhard/ whom we sent thither, has told us of this, having returned here to take his degree, after which he will go back to Copenhagen.
I wrote formerly what happened to Emser's book at Magde- burg. At length, Ambrose Catharinus' has come from Nurem- berg. Good Heavens! what an inept, stupid Thomist! He almost kills us first with laughing, then with boredom. I will answer him briefly and thus move the Italian beast's bile.
Two Counts of Stolberg^ have come to us to study. Fare- well and pray for me. Cranach* has asked me to sign these portraits* and send them to you. Do you take care of them. We are now preparing a comparison* of Christ and the Pope, a good book for the laity.
Martin Luther, Augustinian,
lA priest of the diocese of Wurzburf, later pastor at Jena, from which he was driyen out to Nuremberg in 1524. During the winter of 1520-1 he was at Copenhagen assisting the king in introducing the Reformation. Cf. infra, April 25, 1521, no. 460, and Kolde, Ztitschrift fur Kirchengeschickte, viii. 289. Enders, iii. 107.
(Lancelot de' Politi of Siena (1484-1553) studied at Siena, where he became Dr. jnr. utr. at 17. Later he taught here and in 1514 at Rome. In 1515 he was made by Leo X. Consistorial Advocate at Florence. Under the influence of Savonarola's writings he entered the Dominican cloister here in 15x7. He left Florence in 1521, wandering around, until in 1532 he got to Lyons, then to Paris and 1540-3 again at Lyons. He took an important part in the Council of Trent 1546-9, spending the remaining two years of his life at Rome. He wrote a good deal, chiefly against Luther, beginning with an oration to Charles V., published December 20, 1520. Life by J. Schweitzer, 19 10, and F. Lauchert in Dit Ualitn- ischen Gegner Luther s, 19x2, pp. 30- x 33.
- Wolfgang (I50X-I552) and Lewis (1505-75), sons of Count Botho. They
matriculated in the fall of 1520.
- Lucas Muller, of Kronach in Franconia, whence he took his name (x 47a- 1553).
Nothing is known of his early life. In X504 he produced his first and perhaps greatest masterpiece, the *'Flight into Egypt" (Berlin). In the same year he became court painter to Frederic the Wise and settled at Wittenberg, where, besides pursuing his artistic profession, he drove the trades of printer, gold- smith, banker and apothecary. His first picture of Luther is dated X520. Cf. Luther's letter to him. Smith, p. X19. The relations of the two were warm for many years, but in 1539 cooled temporarily as Luther suspected Cranach of cornering the wheat and raising prices, and also blamed him for an indecent picture. Life in Encyclopedia Britannica, and cf. £. Flechsig: Cranachstudien, X900.
ftl believe these to be Cranach 's copper engravings of Luther, reprodticed in my Luther, opposite, p. 118. This engraving bears the date "x52x" and must therefore have been done before Luther left Wittenberg on April 2. Enders did not make this identification, but thought of some of Cranach's illustrations to books, but "effigies" properly means "portrait** and Luther would not sign anyone else's. Spalatin probably gave some of them to his followers at Worms.
<The Passional Christi et Antichristi, reproduced Weimar, ix., appendix.
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