Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Editorial Conventions
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- List of Early Editions
- Martin Luther’s Letter to Henry VIII
- Henry VIII’s Response to Martin Luther
- Marginalia from the Early Latin Editions
- Prologue and Epigraph to Pynson’s Edition
- Henry VIII’s Preface to the English Translation
- The Archbishop of Mainz’s Letter to Henry VIII
- Hieronymus Emser’s Preface to his German Translation
- Martin Luther’s Response to Emser’s Edition: Martin Luther's Response to the Title of the Insulting Text of the King of England
- Hieronymus Emser’s Confession
- Peter Quentell’s Preface to his First Cologne Edition
- Leonard Cox’s Preface to the Cracow Edition: To the Illustrious and Magnificent Lord Palatine Christopher à Szydłowiecki, Captain of Cracow, Supreme Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland, etc, greetings from the Englishman Leonard Cox.
- Stanislaus Hosius’s Epigraph to the Cracow Edition
- Johannes Eck’s Preface to the Ingolstadt Edition
- Duke George of Saxony’s Letter to Henry VIII
- Ortwin Gratius’s Preface to the Second Cologne Edition
- Johannes Cochlaeus’s Admonition to the Reader: A notice to the reader about each epistle, by Johannes Cochlaeus
- Johannes Cochlaeus’s Brief Discussion of Luther’s Response: A Brief Discussion of Luther’s Response to the Royal Letter, addressed by Johannes Cochlaeus to that Noble and Valiant Man, Sir Hermann Rinck of Cologne, King’s Counsellor and Knight of the Golden Spur, etc.
- Ortwin Gratius’s Preface to the Variant Cologne Edition
- Johannes Cochlaeus’s Preface to the Variant Cologne Edition
- Clement VII’s Preface to the Roman Edition
- Commendatory Verses in the Roman Edition
- Johannes Fabri’s Preface to his Answer to Luther’s Response: translated by Richard Rex and Christoph Pretzer
- Juan Luis Vives’s Letter to Henry VIII: To His Royal Majesty.
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Names, Places, and Topics
- Index of Biblical Texts and References
Commendatory Verses in the Roman Edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Editorial Conventions
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- List of Early Editions
- Martin Luther’s Letter to Henry VIII
- Henry VIII’s Response to Martin Luther
- Marginalia from the Early Latin Editions
- Prologue and Epigraph to Pynson’s Edition
- Henry VIII’s Preface to the English Translation
- The Archbishop of Mainz’s Letter to Henry VIII
- Hieronymus Emser’s Preface to his German Translation
- Martin Luther’s Response to Emser’s Edition: Martin Luther's Response to the Title of the Insulting Text of the King of England
- Hieronymus Emser’s Confession
- Peter Quentell’s Preface to his First Cologne Edition
- Leonard Cox’s Preface to the Cracow Edition: To the Illustrious and Magnificent Lord Palatine Christopher à Szydłowiecki, Captain of Cracow, Supreme Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland, etc, greetings from the Englishman Leonard Cox.
- Stanislaus Hosius’s Epigraph to the Cracow Edition
- Johannes Eck’s Preface to the Ingolstadt Edition
- Duke George of Saxony’s Letter to Henry VIII
- Ortwin Gratius’s Preface to the Second Cologne Edition
- Johannes Cochlaeus’s Admonition to the Reader: A notice to the reader about each epistle, by Johannes Cochlaeus
- Johannes Cochlaeus’s Brief Discussion of Luther’s Response: A Brief Discussion of Luther’s Response to the Royal Letter, addressed by Johannes Cochlaeus to that Noble and Valiant Man, Sir Hermann Rinck of Cologne, King’s Counsellor and Knight of the Golden Spur, etc.
- Ortwin Gratius’s Preface to the Variant Cologne Edition
- Johannes Cochlaeus’s Preface to the Variant Cologne Edition
- Clement VII’s Preface to the Roman Edition
- Commendatory Verses in the Roman Edition
- Johannes Fabri’s Preface to his Answer to Luther’s Response: translated by Richard Rex and Christoph Pretzer
- Juan Luis Vives’s Letter to Henry VIII: To His Royal Majesty.
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Names, Places, and Topics
- Index of Biblical Texts and References
Summary
Marco Girolamo Vida
To the saints in heaven
You saints who after death dwell in heaven's shining mansions,
if there are rewards here for good deeds,
Accept the renowned gifts of the thrice most excellent King Henry
and consider him deserving for his golden piety.
He serves your altars with whatever wealth he can;
nor, tireless, does he defend your honour with weapons alone,
But fights the more fiercely with eloquence, as with fresh arguments
he learnedly crushes the blasphemers whose mouths rage against you.
Who ever was there, whoever will there be, who, resplendent with so many merits and so many virtues, might dare to be compared to this king?
Grant him, therefore, all you blessed in heaven, what he desires:
give him increase (for the rest he has aplenty) with male offspring.
Just let childlessness be far from him, and let there be one to follow him,
whom joyful Britain may obey to the farthest shores of the ocean.
Prudenzio Basso
As one mighty in his right arm, and in war, and in rich lands,
As one whose graceful eloquence flows from his sweet mouth,
King Henry is the greatest of all kings; but in guarding the true
Laws of the Gods, he alone is stronger than any power.
No longer like a mortal, Henry is most worthy of
High heaven, and of the council of the Lord.
And he should properly be reckoned a second God to us
When he acts so that such holy gifts of God may endure.
Marcantonio Casanova
Cythereia's son bore on his shoulders his father and the sacred vessels
While all Greece fell upon their Trojan homes.
While Luther falls upon Christ and overthrows the shrines,
Henry, too, bears on his shoulders his father and the sacred vessels.
The same (Marcantonio Casanova)
An Atlas of religion, another Paul in voice and hand,
The death of Luther, gatekeeper of heaven, beloved of the world,
O King, your voice and your spear pierce to where
Even the rays of Hyperion pierce not.
Paolo Sadoleto
If anyone saved a citizen or supplied
Tireless assistance to a tottering fatherland in its darkest hour,
Then the ancient world deemed him worthy of the highest honours.
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- Henry VIII and Martin LutherThe Second Controversy, 1525–1527, pp. 278 - 285Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021